The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-02-18

the analysis of conditions of deStruc-
tive criticism, Of marking time, has |
passed. The time has come for the
American people to grapple with the |
problems of world wide Importance to |
them. :
The export business Of this country, |
while large, is really appallingly small. |
The city Of Holvoke has an output from
its factories that totals about 46 mil
lions of dollars annually, but the eX-
ports from that city are almost neg
li9ibie quantity. We have so long been
accustomed to the high protective tar
if that we do not appreciate the pres
ent situation. | feel the time has come
to erapple with new industrial, econom-
zeal, social and religious forces, he said.
We must go out and get what is ours.
One Of the greatest enterprises of all
time is agriculture. 1t is the beginning
of a new day and era for this enter
prise. Great is the farming communi-
~. We have too long been assuming
the possibilities are too meagre to be
worth attention or effort.
He said that the value of farm prop
erty increased from 436 millions of dol
lars iii 1880 to So millions in 1910
and that the value of the products
| the last census year.
Massachusetts should be cultivating
! four acres for every one now under cul-
tiNation. Maine should cultivate seven
for every one now cultivated. Vermont
! leads al states in the number of
pounds of butter made per capita, per
farm and per COW. The United States
produces 800 million pounds of wool
and consumes 600 million pounds. Yer
mont has cared more about keeping
her cur dogs than for raising wool. To-
day this country is suffering for the
want of wool. Let IS get rid of the
cur dogs and raise it. Vermont could
make up what Connecticut cannot raise
in farm products.
New England, he said has an area
that is only , 1900 per cent of the
area of the entire country, but New
England has one fourteenth of tho
population, has oucttwelfth of TIA,
wealth, produces onc-cighth of the
manufactured materials and has one
Isixth of the banking capital. The say
lings banks of New England have 81,
1900 900, 900 in them, only a small part
of which the speaker said he owned
lie said that he had seen a report 10y
IeXperts that the state of Maine coult
|develop $4,000 horsepower from it
rivers, but that was not circumstance
to what Vermont could do, for, if h
remembered the figures of his brother
in-law correctly, Vermont could devel
op 500 billion horsepower.
The new day is here. We are comm;
to realize our opportunities and nm
developed resources. Sectionallsm II
= some instances has held back deVelop
ment. but the foreigner is now a pow
er in this country who must be reckon
ed with. Today nine-tenths of the prod
ucts manufactured from cotton are tn
result of the worl, of foreigners, IS pc
cent of wooden goods are made by foI
, eieners. one-half of our shoes are mad
bv foreigners. uineteentwentieths O
our clothing and - per cent of tn
products Of pac king industries are tn
+ results Of work by foreigners. The
are here and they are a great asset /
2 the agricultural world. The Polande
4 came in and made onions grow wher
the Yankee had failed. His childre
1 will grow up, 90 to the public school
I and conclude by Juggling off all tn
prizes.
+, 1t is estimated that over a millio
5 and a quarter of people spend thei
e summer vacations in New England an
1 that New England is the richer b
: these vacations by over 100 millio
$ dollars annually. This. he pointed on
e is net returns from the scenery an
+ healthful atmosphere of this section G
+ the country.