Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1914-08-14
WOULD LIKE TO BE GOVERNOR
Lieut. Gov. Frank E. Howe Will Not, However, Make Con-
test to Secure Nomination Great Needs Of vermont

to settlers in the west ana Canaua'
This can be done in several ways, one
worthy of careful study being that of
extending power to banks to invest a
fraction of their surplus in amorti2a,
ton farm loans protected by freedom
from taxation on money so loaned,
while the best and surest method is
probably through the medium of rural
credit associations chartered by the
state.
(2) Make credits easier and extend
business by reducing the state tax on
money loaned by savings banks and
savings departments of national banks
at five per cent or less to borrowers in
the state of Vermont. 1t is the Dor
rowers of money who make business,
who furnish employment, enlarge the
market and bring prosperity.
CD Encourage industrial enterprise
and growth by systematic study to
keep down the burdens of taxation,
both state and local. Give the work
ing men of Vermont protection against
dangerous and unhealthful conditions
of employment.
az Provide a workmen IS compen
satioa act for the protection of EN-
ployes. To encourage the industrial
growth of Vermont the state should
bear part of the burden brought to
manufacturers by such compensation
act, as is done in the state of Oregon
No port of the burden, however,
should be placed on the employees be-
cause they are the ones exposed to in
Jury and loss of earning power and
that is their full share of the burden.
| would, however, encourage all those
employed in the dangerous trades to
carry insurance of their own to rein
force the aid they would relieve
through workmen's compensation
| act
To promote intelligence and educn-
| ton, to benefit future citizenship and
| to advance the moral welfare of the
state there are some changes neces-
sary:
OD The state should profit by the
survey made by the Carnegie founda-
ton and by the findings of the special
educational commission. The elcmen-
tary schools should be improved. They
| should not be mere ruts leading toward
some college but should educate with
view to the possibilities and future
of the individual pupils. do not
believe in cutting off the approrpra-
tons to the state colleges though |
would not, perhaps, continue the special
appropriation Of 1912. The colleges
have done too much for the people of
| Vermont to be suddenly crippled. State
aid should be given intelligently and
| if withdrawn it should be gradually as
| the colleges can become self support
| ing. l believe that a special text book
on Vermont resources, business, devel-
| opment and agricultural possibility
should be provided for use in every
school. l have caused a bill for this
purpose to be introduced at the last
two sessions Iof the legislature but il
has each time failed of passage.
| (2) The state should provide home
for orphan children of the very poor
and the children whose parents through
crime or misfortune cannot or do not
properly care for their offspring. 1t is
a state disgrace that this matter has
not been take care of earlier. We
spend millions in restraining and ear
ing for the criminal, the insane, and
the mentally and moral deficient,
| but have failed to realize that by ear
ing for the children of the unfortu-
nate we can make useful men and
women of many who may otherwise be-
come a burden to society.
To promote patriotism the state
government should be so conducted that
each person within the borders Of Yer
mont vii have full and fair oppor-
tunity to develop the best that is in
him without oppression or injustice.
During the past three sessions of the
legislature | have been so active in
support of cleaner elections, measures
to prevent the corrupt use of money in
nominations and elections, in trying to
secure fair and honest direct pri.
mary, to build improved highways, in
behalf of the victims of drink and
drugs and their dependents and those
inmates of penal Institutions who give
indications of trying to reform, in
seeking to stop the exploitation OF
child labor and to better the condi
tion of women workers, to conserve
and develop the resources of Vermont
in aiding those progressive measures
tending to put the control of the af
fairs of government into the hands OF
the rank and file of the people anc
| W tuhc cOHtIOl away from tnOSe VINO
would use the powers of government
for their own selfish purposes, that
do not need to reterate my view,
and desire on these subjects.
| believe that the Republican party
should this year, and always, put for
ward platform and ticket represent
ing neither the Establishments OF
wealth nor the scheming of politica
workers. ] believe that only in so do
ing can the party be true to the PEG
pie of Vermont and deserving of sue
cess. The voters of Vermont SHOULD
rebuke the follies and mistakes of tn,
present Democratic national admins
tration but the voters should not allow
their desire to do this to blind then
to the danger of letting selfish ant
ambitious men ride into place anc
! power on national issues.
! These are the issues on which ha(
thought of seeking the Republican
nomination this year but as the tim,
for making the selection of candidates
; has drawn near | have been disabled
: by illness. l am also without fnan
eial means to make "A pre-conventiona
! canvass.