Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-02-23
Maine Senate of 1875.


Whats fame fancied life in others breath,
A thing beyond US, cen before cur death.
just what you hear yon have and whats unknown
The same (my lordO if Tully's or your own
Though the fame Of this Senate may rot far
outshine that WHICH al others possess, in great
er or less degree; yet as Senate well calculated
to foster, and develop the enterprise Of state,
we deem its members worthy Of notice. They
have gathered here as repre- sentatives Of iona
tiqH, son, Of our ancestor across the Kingdom Of
Posedoa, 5soUhy ruler Of tie brine, AMI as such,
we DO not look for f9ssiis among their number,
who arc sticklers for usage, forgetting that orr
motto is Dirigo. Older heads than theirs may err.
we do not expec. them TO be perfect or to initiate
the example Of that scamp Btl'erophon, who at
tempted fight to heaven on a mortal horse, an
found hinself wandering lame and blind upon the
earth We look for laws good in spirit and fin
shed in detail, graphic or ne l.. D's alone can
interpret them. Let Senators therefore, with the
eve of the hawk 6Hter into this work that their
laws NAV rot be Ike thot rooden horse OF old, all
fair without, but within fraud, deception, and 50
pronounced enemies Oh the state. Legislation i
for the poor, as well the rich, for the peasant
treading the bare floor Of poverty as well as the
banker whose equity feet fall softly on the richest
fabYics Of BYTsSeiis; and as PlutsS UdS cycles,
that he might bestow his fayors on the worthy, and
unworthy, so Senators should close their eyes to
the riches of this world, and act from principle
alone let them Go this and fear not the clamor Of
the disaected, We who know bow tdc;r shot han
oQ9ht TO regard all such as but idle noise; do this,
senator's, and the wisest and blighteH, erea Soc
rates himself (werc he here will admire your acts.
The great curse OF our nation-intempelarce-
should claim a share Of your attention. We know
that King Alcohol brooks no opposition, from
whose thfne rue is, and who bow abject subject.
at his throne, but our Senator'S own no such mas
ter they are the rulers, and as such, may COM
mand no trashy 4, clauation will satisfy the peo
pie on this subject; though cloqucnce may paint
The evils of intemperance with colors as bright and
varied as those which the french Dyergiyes to his
fabrics, the people demand laws that will overturn
this enemy of progress ard reform. To sever the
bonds which hold many 10 this hated monster,
we need cutlery as keen as that which we give our
Senators, but Of different kind-thc armor OF Law
not OF steel. You Senators are placed IN honola-
bic positions by the people and are upheld by the
ballot not by arms. Has hsUogg, though he be
Governor of STATE, as cnyiablc position a. our
Senators You will not hesitate to consult the
work. Of former Scpates and 10 receive
light from The experience OF others Amer
Gus hinged his undying lame on the labols OF Co.
lumbus and there can be but few pioneers in any
labor at this late day. AroaaI Senatos and Sem
| ators cluster many OF the brightest memories OF
the asst and We believe that those memories Will
not notg e5b away and leave hnt the flats and mud
OF political warfare. We know that there have
| been Senators more cIuel than Richard, son Of
| York richer than our principal merchants; and
| Senates whose deliberations were like a moorish
morris on the green; vet these are not the quail
ications Of senators, nor Is tins what we look Tor
in our Senate, but rather that gravity and dignity
which so well becomes Senates. We wish that
you may serve our State with honor, and when at
the close of the session you get your think (yng
heavily on your conscicnccs will be no vain re-
grets for the past, but big hope Will possess your
hearts that your names may yet find place n the
| pages Of some future Prescott.