News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1916-08-09
POLITICAL ADVERTISING
MR.. FLETCHER'S RECORD AN OPEN BOOK!
READ 1T!

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Ever since Allen M. Fletcher entered public
life in Vermont he has been identified with mpor-
tant constructive work for the benefit of the tax
payer and the common people.
No one has ever asked him where he stands
on public question or what his record is on mat
tiers of state legislation without finding an i'm
mediate answer in his public record
When asked what constructive measures he
has advocated and pushed to a successful issue,
the friends of Mr.. Fletcher need only point to the
following
Measures to equalize the burden of taxation;
TO require railroads and corporations to pay their
fair share of state taxes;
To regulate the imposition of demurrage charges;
TO reduce telephone rates and abolish unearned
charges for toll calls;
To establish a state purchasing agents
To provide adequate school facilities for every
child in Vermont with training suitable for the occupa-
tons OF his own community
To give the public service commission teeth
Toward preparedness by establishing armories
for the Vermont National Guard;
To provide safe and sanitary places for men and
women in Vermont industrial establishments by fac
tory inspections;
The direct primary
To remove dangerous, high-tension power lines
from the highways;
To develop water powers;
The local option law;
To encourage Vermont loans at five per cent
less;
To conserve water powers
To aid agriculture.
To save our forests and encourage reforestaton;
To revise the state constitution
THE FARMERS OF VERMONT HAVE GOOD
REASON TO SUPPORT MIR. FLETCHER
farmer himself, Allen M Fletcher has con-
sstenty stood for legislation designed to advance
the interests of agriculture and has also led the way
in forward movements to benefit the condition of
the farmer.
In 1910 he moving spirit of the farmers
club of the legislature which had powerful effect
legislation designed to benefit the farmer
He was one of the first presidents of the Yer
mont forestry association, the object of which is to
and improve woodlands;
He advocated state aid for rural schools, the
suit of which is that in farming community
portion of the teachers pay paid by the state
He consistently stood for better roads, his plans
and those of Mr.. Gates have dovetaled during the
Fletcher administration;
He stood for better service and fair treatment by
the telephone companies of subscribers to farmers
lines" with the result that unfair charges have been
abolished and toll rates made more equitable;
He advocated additional appropriations for the
missioner of agriculture that Vermont farmers might
secure markets for their produce without the
tortions of mddemen;
He favored legislation that is designed extend
rural credits by making it possible for farmers bor-
row money at per cent;
In his retiring message Governor Fletcher said:
''To the policy of the state relative to agricultural
The present appropriation for the department of
agriculture is wholly insufficient for the work, and
entirely out of proportion to the appropriation for other
departments of state government 1t should be material
y increased
Authority should be given the commissioner of ag-
rcuture make and enforce such regulations may
necessary protect the state from invasion of insect
life and plant disease, to enforce reasonable and
sanitary regulations and to control the standard of
agricultural products of the State.
Will Senator
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