Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-08-11
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Mr.. FIetCher's Record an Open Book!
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Ever since Allen NJ. Fletcher entered public
lite IN Vermont he has been identified with i'm
portant, constructive work for the benefit of the
taxpayer and the common people.
No one has ever asked him where he stands
on a bubble question or what his record is on
matters of state legislation without finding an
immediate answer in his public record.
When asked what constructive measures he
has advocated aud pushed to a successful issue,
the friends OF Mr.. Fletcher need only point to the
following:
Measures to equdlize the burden Of toxation;
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 q state purchasing agent;
TO provide adequate school facilities for every child
IN Vermont with training suitable for the occupations 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 i'm Vermont industrial establishments by fac
tory inspection;
To remove dangerous, higtension power lines
from the highways;
To develop water powers;
The local option law;
To encourage Vermont loans at five per cent or
less.
To conserve water powers;
To aid agriculture;
To save our forests and encourage reorestation;
TO revise the state constitution.
THE FARMERS OF VERMONT HAVE GOOD
REASON TO SUPPORT mr.. FLETCHER
A farmer himself, Allen M Fletcher has con-
sistently 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 was a moving spirit of the farmers
club Of the Legislature, which had a powerful effect on leg
islation designed to benefit the farmer;
He was one Of the first presidents OF the Ver-
mont forestry association, the object Of which is to
conserve aud improve our woodlands;
He advocated state aid for rural schools, the result
of which is that in every farming community a proportion
of the teachers pay IS now paid by the state;
He has consistently stood for better roads, his plans
and those of MIR. Gates having dovetailed 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 COM
missioner Of agriculture so that Vermont farmers might
secure better markets for their produce without the ex-
tortions of m%iddlemen,
He favored legislation that is sdesigned to extend
rural credits by making it possible for farmers to borrow
money at 5 per cent;
In his retiring message Governor Fletcher said:
ITO the policy Of the state relative to agriculture: The
present appropriation for the department, of agri-
culture is wooiEy Insufficient for the work, and en-
trey out Of proportion to the appropriation for other de-
partneuts Of state government. 1t should be materially
increased.
"Authority should be given the commissioner of agri-
culture to make and enforce such regulations as may be nee
~ Will Sen;