The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-12-21
vermont Needs For Governor

Different cycles ifdH lot sUIEHllS
types and degree5 Of craftsmanship
ard statecra t. Sometimes progress
slye people move too fast and an III
dfb cSnse vatiye adtidote, SIS pre-
scrihed by the reaetionary movement.
Then again we become stalled IN
rut'a Of stagnatng inertia and giant
political explosive "a necessary 20
jolt us out OF it and Sc. US in motion
again. a
gE ermQntshas been alb e to boast OF
a list Of executives during the past
few decades. as noteworthy as il has
been yariegated, Thanks to our
system of,election rotation we not on
~ have the largest number OF liy NJ
eX-governors but we also nave the on
ly gubernatorial rotary club in cap
tivity We have thus been able 70
adapt ourselves to every cycle as It
darted past us, and to provide the
kind OF governor called for by ma
il IT. Of our peop'e or by those who
presumed to speak for the people.
mus ar the 10th century has a.
ready given Vermont executives both
urban and bucolic, orthodox and non.
G. la st, elJl mer and idealist, and
above all frenzied hnancers. who
ecu cause a Il easury surplus Of mil
lions to appear and disappear without
even magic wand to wave In man
ner that would outGrover Cleveland
IN the face Of a pernicious gold sur.
plus in Uncle Sans strong box
The outstanding need OF Vermont
f. the election of the coming year IS
not a statesman OF the roadster or
limousine variety, hut financia en-
GINGER who can find landing place
for the Green Mountain states inda.
tion balloon We are all haIling the
readjustment OF America as o whole
to a postwar basis, but Vermont Is
still on a war basis-olliciall and fin,
ancially Our manufacturing indus
tr es and especial y our farm indus
tries have been readiusted to pre-war
conditions. but in our otticialdom war
values stlll prevail In short. Yer
mont needs an executive v1o will IS
sue a proclamation declaring war
holiday, the scrapp ng of wartime
functlonares and expenses and a re
turn to d peace ratio between the
Vermont taxpayer and the hand that
scatters abroad
One of the national developments
in the eighties was the tariff idea Of
Congressman VII lam r. Morrison OF
Fmois. who called for 'hori2onta
reduction, in tariff rates, and who, &C.
cord ng'Y passed into poitica' econ0-
mic history as Horizontal Bill Yer
mont needs for governor next time
q Horizontal BIZ who will cal for
a horizontal reduction in State sal
aries and eypend lures. and who VIII
say, Begin cutting with the salary Of
Governor. and go through the entire
li~f IN ord down the state ard then
across both ways We suspect a
man who would have E,e courage to
lead In such movement would soon
stand without a rival for the COVER
norshir
We would eXcent the ea'a~'N0 20
he Judges of our Supreme and Super.
Tor Courts. since In Vermont on
Judges are precluded from Other
means of gaining a livelihood and un
ike New York judges, who are eject
ed at the pol and almost inYa'
Y active political strategists ours a"o {
iot even supposed to talk politics
outs de Of the cloakroom Indeed
,ur Judges are virtual y sentenced for
lie. and they deserve even mere than
hey are paid
General expenses Of justice in Yer