Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-02-07

in his legislature and established fertilizer
control station, and perhaps an agricultural
college Armed with these tremendous en-
pines, he could have arrested all of these
forces of nature and kept that great country
of Asia in a state of fertility. Here
after all we shall have to do will
be to take our little basket of
potatoes, go to these fertilizer stations and
swap them off for the potash and there you
are !! All ills and troubles are healed, and he
had no doubt that the bill should pass.
Mr.. Tapley said his purpose in offering his
amendment was to bring little more direct
lv to the attention of the Senate the two lead
ing elements in the bill.
One of the elements is to protect the pur-
chaser of these fertilizers and to punish
fraud in the manufacture. The other seemed
to be to provide a means for analysis. His
amendment left the bill in full force so far
as to prevent fraud upon purchasers and
struck out the provision for station for an
alysis. There was no call for this bill in the
western part of the State. The natural rea-
soning would be that sufficient time has
not elapsed to ascertain whether the bill
passed two wears ago has proved efficient.
The present law, through the licenses, makes
the system self-supporting, while the
measure under consideration goes to
the annual expense of $4,000 to &C
complish what can be done with the law
we have. He could not see why such recent
legislation should be abandoned at such an
expense as called for here. For these rea-
sons he should vote against the bill.
Mr.. Marble suggested that the amendment be
withdrawn inasmuch as it left the bill pre-
cisely as the law now is.
Mr.. Taplev, by consent, withdrew the
amendment.
Mr.. Marble replied to the Senator from
Piscataquis Mr.. Lebroke] and further OPP
posed the bill. In regard to the argument
that a large number of petitioners ask for the
law, he said petitions could be obtained for
almost anything, and gave several instances
to show with what little thought people sign
them. To show the effect of commencing
with a new institution he lnstanced the In
dustrial School for girls which started in 1871
with an appropriation of 800, and which.
up to the present time, has had approprla-
tons amounting to more than 100000.
He declared that the present project was
nothing more nor less than robbery of the
farmers in whose interests it is claimed to be.
Mr. SimOnton said, being a new member
and not having studied thoroughly the sub
iect. he had not intended to take part in the
discussion, but he had been somewhat stirred
bv what had been SAID in relation to the far
his boyhood he knew what it was to live on a
farm where forty acres had to he moved over
to get thirty tons of hav. The discussion
called up the associations of his bovhood, and
he could not sit still and hear this class of
our population spoken of as if they were of
no Importance. The gentleman from Lincoln
Mr.. Marble had said that taxation had lost
Charles the First his head and George the
Third his colonies If he Mr.. Simonton had
read history Alright il was not taxation alone,
but it was the ignoring of the right
of petition as well. And it had been
said that the farmers didn't know
though they had signed at the dictation of
grange, He did not believe the accusation.
lie did not like the course of the gentleman
from Kennebec [Mr. Heath after the
instructions he had had from his county con-
vention. That gentleman had made the most
bitter speech that could be possibly made
against the measure. disregarding the instrur-
tons that he received before he elected.
What were Senators here for? They were
not chosen kings, but servants or agents of
the people who have right to instruct by
votes of their conventions, petitions or other
wise, and If they were good agents they gen.
orally obeved their instructions. If he
selected man to do for him piece
of work and he didn't do it as instructed,
he would be expected TO give some valid rea-
sons for his course
Mr.. Heath: If the gentleman had listened
to what said he would know that | stated
that on account of that resolution of instruc-
ton and certain other things that had trans
pired here, | proposed to vote for the bill.
! Mr.. Simonton Then the gentleman comes
in here with speech that stabs to the death
this bill which he has been instructed to sup
port. and then proposes to vote for it By
this course he
"ke,ps the word of promise to the ear,
But breaks it TO the hope"
But he Mr. Simonton would pas this.
He did not think the gentleman from Piscat-
aquis out of the way when he drew illus
trations from the old world. We sometimes
have to 90 beyond our own limits for the
knowledge we obtain. We are a new coun-
try. yet our farms are deteriorating.
and our young people are leaving them.
If this matter had been taken in hand fifty
years ago we should now have more good
/, farmers and fewer poor lawyers, doctors and
minis ers. But the farmers of to-day are
not an ignorant class that are to have no con-
sideration. As has been so well said, they
are the bedrock of our prosperity. senators
remember Emerson's hymn in which he
speaks of our defenders at Concord where
the
"Embattled farmers stood
Who fired the shot heard round the world
{ Who does not remember what they have
done for the defence of this country in the
Rebellion They left their homes and went
forth to defend that old flag when the attempt
was made to trail it in the dust. with a full
determination to bear it aloft in triumph or
find beneath its beautiful folds honorable
graves. He stood here in defence
of the farmers among whom he was
born and reared, and their number, over
$4,000, entities them to respect when they
come here and ask for legislation. and no re-
monstrances against it. The time had not
come in this country. as in England, when
the owners of the soil shall become the
underlings of the moneyed men, We have,
since came here, heard of the terrific ex-
plosiNns in London. We do not justify those
methods; but men are poor students of the
philosophy of the history of the world who do
not recognize them as the out-cropping of a
disease that has cursed England for ages. 1t
is their landed estates depressing and bowling
down these people. until. they are mad
dened in their brain and ready for
anv remedy The proper course for
England TODAY is to elevate her laboring