News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1914-08-19

Gus trades to carry insurance of their
own, to reinforce the aid. they would
receive through workmens compensa-
ton act.
Improve Moral Welfare
To promote intelligence and education,
to benefit future citizenship and to ad-
vance the moral welfare of the state,
there are some changes necessary:
(l) The state should profit by the sur
vey made by the Carnegie foundation
and by the findings of the special edu
i cational commission. The elementary
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. l do not believe in
cutting off the appropriations to the
state colleges, though | would not, per-
haps, continue the special appropriation
of 1912. The colleges have done too much
for the people of Vermont to be sud-
denly crippled. State aid should be CIV
en- intelligently and if withdrawn it
should be gradually as the colleges can
become self-supporting. | believe that
special text book on Vermont re-
sources, business development, and agri-
cultural possibility should be provided
for use in every school, | have caused a
bill for this purpose to be introduced at
the last two sessions of the legislature,
but it has each time failed of passage.
~ The state should provide a 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 taken care of earlier. We
spend millions in restraining and caring
for the criminal, the insane and the
mentally and morally deficient, but have
failed to realize that by caring for the
children of the unfortunate we can make
useful men and women of many who
may otherwise become a burden to So
ciety.
To promote patriotism, the state gov
eminent should be so conducted that
each person within the borders of Ver-
mont will have full and fair opportunity
to develop the best that is in him, with
out oppression or injustice.
Other Policies
During the past three sessions of the
legislature, | have been so active in sup
port of cleaner elections, measures to
prevent the corrupt use of money in
nominations and elections, in trying to
secure fair and honest direct primary, |
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 condition of women workers,
to conserve and develop the resources of
Vermont, in aiding those progressive
the affairs of government into the hands
of the rank and file OF the people and
to take control away from those who
would use the powers of government for
their own selfish purposes, that / do not
need to reiterate my views and desires
on these subjects.
l believe that the Republican party
should this year, and always, put for
ward a platform and ticket representing
neither the Establishments of wealth nor
the scheming of political workers.
believe that only in so doing can the
party be true to the people of Vermont
and deserving of success. The voters
of Vermont should rebuke the follies
and mistakes of the present Democratic
national administration, but the voters
should not allow their desire to do this
to blind them to the danger of letting {
selfish and ambitious men ride into ,
place and power on national issues.
These are the issues on which / had
thought of seeking the Republican NOM I
nation this year, but as the time for
making the selection of candidates has
lrawn near, l have been disabled by ILL
ness. / am also without financial means
o make a pre-convention canvass.
Because of these disabilities, l shall :
make no effort to secure the nomination, :.
ilthough l should not refuse it should 1
t come to me. believe the voters r
an be fully trusted to select whom
hey may desire. l am proud of Yer 6
mont, and my earnest desire is to pro- |
note the welfare of tile state and its
,eople,