Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1920-08-18
FARM BUREAU FIELD DAY
Dale and Emery Speakers at Big
County Event.

The annual field meeting of the |
Orleans County Farm Bureau
Grange and commercial interests
was held at Glover, Thursday, Aug
ust II, at the Leonard homestead.
Every town in Orleans county was
represented and there were visitors
from Essex county also, altogether
bringing to the outing some 500 peo-
pie who spent the day most agreably
picnicing in the beautiful maple
grove, listening to the addresses and
roofing for the ball game with which
the days entertainment closed.
Roscoe Dutton of Bloomington
presided at the gathering in the
grove and introduced the speakers.
The principal address of the after
noon was made by Congressman
Porter H. Dale, who motored over
from Island Pond for the occasion.
Congressman Dale was greeted with
applause upon introduction and
ringing speech in favor of true
Americanism. He confined his re-
| marks strictly to the value of the
country of the study of patriotism of
the men and women in the rural dis
| tricts of America who have no SYM
pathy with Bolshevism in whatever
l
attention to the historic fact that two
years ago this summer when the
Vermont boys were facing the Hun
on the fields of France, a convention
was held at Canton, Ohio, in the
home of William Mckinley, which
was addressed by Eugene V. Debbs,
| who secuted the constitution and the
| government amid the applause of the
crowd of Socialists there gathered.
The Stars and Stripes were excluded
from that convention but the red flag
was in evidence. In Mr.. Dale's es-
innate that is the real danger to
this country. There are 100000 So
/ cialists in this country who are un-
able to speak the English language
and Milwaukee has three times elect
ed Berger to congress In spite of his
exclusion every time he appears to
take the oath. He stated that Boil
shevism in Russia did not start there
but in New York city in the person
of Trotzky, renegade Jew, who
took with him 262 of the 464 compat-
riots, trained and taught their des-
tructive doctrines in the city of New
York. He said that the first flag he
saw when he went across the sea was
the Stars and Stripes in the hands OF
. Vermont soldier on thedecks of a
steamer in the harbor of Liverpool
, And he closed with the statement
!. that the good government of the ma
ton, Of christendom itself, and the
fate of the world depends upon such
as those who love the flag and intend
to uphold it against all comers. !.
Col. c. S Emery was in the aud
another appointment, and was callet
S on for a speech by the chairman a
the close of Congressman Dale's ad
e dress. Responding, Col. Emery wa
received with great applause, an
turned his attention to statemen
= in the press that has recently beer
made, that he has taken a position
e against industry in Vermont. Mr.
Emery proceeded to puncture tina
e falsehood in the most vigorous term
: and left no doubt in the minds of hi
hearers as to where he stood on th1)
matter. He pointed to his platfo4
$ in explanation, the third plank o.
:. which reads: "The development O:
the industrial Possibilities and natur
n al resources of Vermont, whicl
G are large and promising" and quer
led how with such a statement a
that any one could by any possibilit,
: charge him with belittling industr.
: in Vermont. He did, however, CLAIM
that it was all important to stres
:, agriculture in Vermont, and went OF
t to give many illustrations of mel
who had taken over abondone,
r farms and brought them up to
n state of cultivation, where they wer
paying great dividends as resul
of intensive farming. Col. Emer,
z struck a responsive chord in tn
hearts of the farmers when he crit
icised the present school system am
e favored a return to the distric
n school system, and the putting bacl
v into the rural districts of the schoo
q house, also caring for the back road
, the farmers use as well as the trunl
lines, so-ca1led, and closed his i'm
pron1ptu speech with Henry Va
Q Dykes poem, "America for me-
I. The ball game which followed wa
played by a team of "fat" me
r. against, a team of "lean" men. Tn
st players enjoyed themselves hugel,
although the heat was intensive
= The game was not run altogether o
= = big league rules, and the score was
" good deal in doubt when the pla