Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-01-10

Alright Combines.

If the steel men met and formed an
alright combination to control the
price of rails, what a howl there
would be! But Vermont dairymen-
that's ifferent.-Rutland Herald.
This is the kind of talk naturally to
be expected from a newspaper owned
and controlled by millionaire mon
opolist.
If Vermont dairymen should go in
to the market for steel rails they
would soon find themselves up
against an alright combination"
If they go into the market for milk
cans they find themselves up against
an alright combination.
If they go to buy grain and feed
they find the price fixed by an alright
combination.
An alright combination has for
years dictated to the dairyman what
he should pay for agricultural nipple
ments, for coal, flour, sugar, oil and
many other of the necessities of life.
For years, and before the interstate
commerce commission got busy, an
alright combination of railroad pres
idents, of which the owner of the Rut-
land Herald was one, fixed the rates
which dairymen and farmers must
pay for freight on their output. These
rates were based on the principle Of
call the traffic would BEAR" and were
Ubiquitous and extortionate.
For years the dairymen and all
farmers have been at the mercy of
milk combines which fixed the price
which they should receive for their
product. Generally this price was
one which afforded a very meager
profit or none at all.
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king up. They have seen capital form
alright combinations and they have
not been blind to what labor can do
when organized and they propose to
60 after some of the benefits which
! come from combinations themselves.
Success to acknowledgements En-
terprise.
These Men Succeeded Right Here in
Vermont.
The Ladies' Home Journal pays a
splendid tribute to a Vermont family
that persists to the third and fourth
generation in doing things worth
while. It may be said that it has be-
become somewhat traditional in this
the second or third generation and
periodical referred to says:
"a number of years ago man in
[ Vermont became governor of his
state. His son came along and the
| father grooned him until he became
governor Now there is a son Of this
second governor and already he is
! president of the local bank, a director
| in the railroad that goes through his
town and he owns the local neWspa-
per. We don't often find this in
| America, where son succeeds father
| through three generations, but it
makes for a splendid Americanisn
and finer local quality. In each in
| stance were these boys sent to col
| lege, then abroad for travel to widen
their horizon, and then brought back,
not to go to the big city near by, but
to stay at home and enrich their ma
| tive town"
While the foregoing refers to the
son and grandsons of former Cover
nor J. Gregory Smith of St. Adams, it
is equally applicable to the son and
grandson of that magnificent Yer
monter, former Governor and former
| Senator Redfield Proctor.
| It is significant that in these two
I families, and doubtless in number
Ol OCnefS WHO nave occupied uSoIul
| if not prominent places in Vermont s
{ history, the same tribute, at least in a
| measure, may be deserved. 1t is mer-
! est speculation to attempt to picture
what might have been the result had
the sons and grandsons of these splen-
did Vermonters been influenced to
leave the state and to exercise their
activities elsewhere. They might have
made equal or more pronounced sue
; cess in other so-called more expansive
| fields.
Nevertheless, it is inspiring and en-
couraging to know that the largest
measure of success is possible to men
of the right stamp, Of habits of indus
| try and of shrewdness right here in
the tidy state of Vermont. In fact,
we are prone to believe that the op-
| portunities for the widest play of tai
ent, either business or professional,
| may be found here and that it is not
necessary to go, as many promising
young men do, to the crowded centers
| of population for their chances" -
| Rutland News