Abstract

Vermont: State of Anarchy

This article presents information on the New England state of Vermont has which has broken loose from its stiff crinolines of law and order and gone anarchist-anarchy is used here in its literal dictionary meaning of "absence or utter disregard of government." The anarchy now prevailing in Vermont was not induced by "mobs" or "the rabble." On the contrary, the best people and the best churches are numbered among its adherents; and with only a very few exceptions the officials condone the new regime by their silence when they do not openly advocate it. The thing began when the Vermont Marble Company in Rutland County disagreed with its employees. The company was paying extremely low wages. Statistics show that wages in the granite industry in Barre are approximately twice as high as in the marble industry in Rutland County.