The Portland daily press., 1868-01-03

PORTLAND.
Friday MOrning, j. uary 8, 1858.
Governor ChamberIain,s address.

| Governor Chamb erIain's Address.
To one who looks at Governor Chamber
llIn's Address as whole, it will doubtless ap-
ear long, Readers who want to know what
has to say on special topics, however, the
'herIes, our water power, agriculture, educa-
ION, the liquor law, capital punishment, will
I'd that he has treated the manifold interests
g the State with pregnant brevity. Dis
'issing in the outset all matters foreign to
e immediate business of State Legislature,
lie has applied himself to the discussion of the
fairs legitimately before him with a consci-
tious thoroughness which leaves little more
- be said. His address is complete synop-
SIS OF the present condition OF the State, imam
oll, industrial, commercial, moral, and
a'iounds in excellent suggestions growing
sturally out of this comprehensive survey.
The condition of the public debt is espec-
lily gratifying. Our bonds are quoted in the
'arket above par; the sinking fund provides
amply Tor the maturing debit and the rev.
eaue is SO satisfactory that a reduction of the
: ate tax from six to five mills on the dollar
may safely be made. Only one military of.
Ii 'er is now under pay-the Afljutant General
o the State. The expenditures under the
5 Ute pension law are diminishing. The war
BITS OF the towns, the Governor thinks,
S ould be assumed by the State, and then
scented to Congress as claims upon the
neral government, in defence of which they
v re incurred. af7f s1 1oi. '-rI
The Normal schools may now be REGARDED
as fairly established. The Industrial College
Is still in process of organization, and the
G vernon wisely advises a cautious delay in
giving form to it while as yet the men who
a c TO labor there are not upon the spot.
college must grow from within, if it is to
We healthy growth, taking shape from the
eessites disclosed by experience within its
" Ills and not from arbitrary theories framed
iSside. The proposition for an institution
Ii e the Reform School for girls, is heartily
Sc eonded by the Governor, who also recon-
IL fnds some provision for the care of feeble
N t1ded and idiotic youths. '''
'assng in review our other reformatory
a1f charitable institutions, the Address ap-
p taches the industrial interests of the State.
,e unused water power of the State the
&C l1plalnts respecting the fisheries, the de-
pl 3ssion of shipbuiIding, the necessity of in
CT 'asing our wheat product the encourage
m tnt OF immigration, the Improvement of our
IL Jams of communication by land and water.
al all remembered and commended to the
at lention of the Legislature, briefly yet with
81 ticient fullness. The Governor renews his
suggestion of last year, that the State is re-
ia ling her-own development by withholding
h' aid and countenance wholly from great
p' blic enterprises, and again urges the Lesis-
la lTe to consider whether without exposing
I'll Treasury to plunder, the constitutional
reltriction may not be SO modified that the
CT ldit of the State may be afforded to enter
pl )jes vitally affecting her prosperity 4
among the minor topics of the Address are
tt recommendation for the establishment of
a )reatly needed intermediate court in Cum
bt Hand County, the recital of the Governors
ei brts in behalf of the Jaffa colonists. and an
al preciative notice of the researches of DR..
Wpods in the early documentary history of
tL( State. / -''717'l' ''1 n-'1 7-Hsia4 ID
With scrupulous sense of what is becom-
in and suitable to the occasion, Governor
Q lamberlain forbears to tell us that on all ma
til llal questions his opinions are the opinions
OF the Republican party. Yet there is a pas
sa Elm his Address which is worth more than
&C Iumns OF defamation about the infamous
u lmocraLlc scheme to repudiate our national
ot otiigations. 1t is the passage in which he
calls attention to the fact that our savings
bs lks, the treasures of the industrious poor.
nov hold tor the benefit of their frugal depos-
itg's, United States bonds to the amount of
oy!r million and quarter-"so that large
CAPITALISTS" the Governor adds, :" are not the
Oily ones who profit by the exemption of
government bonds from taxation.'