The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-02-17
LETTERS TOTHE EDITOR
Capitalization and Oppression.

Editor, Barre Daily Times: am
well aware that opposition to any law
or scheme proposed by the legislature
of Vermont to improve and beautlfy
the villages of our state will meet with
SCOTS ieers and ridicule But | want
it distinctly understood that L am OPP
posed to the Capitalization OF our pop
ulation and also to the appointment
or election of commission OF mortal
men. that would always be more or
less swayed by selfish wishes, to inn
prove and beautify the villages and
surroundings at the expense OF the
people in the rural districts, and IN
the outskirts of the towns, as this
would be sure way TO accelerate the
Capitalization of our population
After the people in those rural dls-
tricts have lost their schools, they, are
too anxious to leave the farm, the
neglected roads and the snowdrlfts,
without taxing them to improve the
villages.
Such a law would be class leglsla-
tion. and class oppression, and dam
gerous law for the agricultural state
Of Vermont. | understand n. IL, or
as reported back. II. Ill, provides and
allows this. Of am wrong IN under
standing this bill, | wish to be cor
rected.D
If | am right in this matter and am
extreme in the view ! take, lei every
one consider that an extreme view III
the opposite direction lin tlme1 would
lead to riot, rebellion and revolution.
wish to call your attention to the
effect and the consequences OF CEN
tralization in Europe, You understand
that England produces less than one.
fourth the food she consumes ana
without the products of the agrarlan
countries of Ireland, India and Rhode
sia. whose population is mostly ten
ants and who pay great land rents,
which go to England in food that Eng
land would .starve. /,
The desire and dream OF Cecli
Rhodes in about 1880 was to get pos
session of that part of South Africa
which is now Rhodesia to feed the
congested and hungry cities OF Eng
land. :
Bv getting blanket concession OF
that country. which has an area larger
than England. France and Prussia com
bined. he (Rhodesl succeeded IN oo-
tanning the Mag Charta upon the
British South African company IN
1880 which would expire in 20 years
or in 1914, if not renewed or changed:
The desire and greatest ambition OF
- sNE h
the kaiser was to get control OF TINS
country before it was renewed. men
he could staye England and rule the
world He must do it Immediately or
lose control of German South Africa.
This was. no doubt, the greatest
cause of the war; in other words, TINS
Capitalization of population and the
oppression of the agrarian classes OF
Europe and Africa was what brought
this world wide cataclysm and the con-
sequences that are following.
What are these consequences Let
us see. Nearly every country that en-.
tered that war is now on the verge OF
bankruptcy and many are on the verge
of starvation. England Is likely TO
lose Ireland, India and Rhodesia by
rebellion. If she does, and the land
rents paid TO her in food cease, 1t will
bring her starvation. Russia is boil
sheyik and the others are likely to
follow. But how about the United
States
To give a good idea how she Is liked,
let us suppose that discussing DIN
Ger "a pavmasterl had been created on
the first day of the year !, A. ID. "a
few DAYS after the birth of Christi
and had been given S5,6s6,0O5, FOG
(which is the precise sum that it has
cost to run the United States gov
eminent in 1920 and that paymaster
had been ordered to pay out 50 every
minute. night and day, Sundays and
holidays included right down through
the centuries to the beginning of New
Years day, Jan. l, 1921. That myth.
cal paymaster would have paid out
only $5,O49, l22 400, and would have