Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1890-04-03
A Hearty Tribute from Senator Hale

"Hallo -
Halo"
is this Senator Hale of MaineI'
II rejoice to say it is. How can be of
servicet'
by talking about your State.
Talk 10 you about the State of Maine?
Yes. iudeed, | am quite willing to talk
about Maine; ard | ought 10 know some
thing about the STATE, too, for was born
there, have always lived there. and. though
| AN in no hurry about it. I would rather
die there tban anywhere else
II don't wonder you have that kind of
feeling. The people Of Maine seem all to
siare it."
"Senstor Hoar once told me that he
thought Ma ne had the best Simon pure
Anglo Saxon population, with the least ad-
mixture, of any State in the Union; and if
you ever 90 there, a, hope you may, You
will see what such a people are doing for
themselves. Pretty nearly everybody in
Maine is at work, and the State is today
in brighter an thrif,ier condition than
ever before"
What do the people generally find to
keep them busy-tarming, chietiy?"
There are good many acres of what is
called land ia Maine that nobody would
think OF trying TO farm upo:: but we have
other products that give an annual crop,
where no cultivation and no fertilizing is
needed. Our ice cfoo. fer il stance, this
winter will bring 5000 ,0o0 into the State;
and next year, If the season is like this, we
can easily furnish dolble the amount. A
great deal of your comfort during the COM
ing summer months will lepend upon the
ice that will be brought to you from cur
State. Ever, body is dependent on il in
some way. The languid beauty who sips
her ices and sherbets at Saratoga and Long
Branch viii send up praises to the State of
Maine this summer: and our Southern
friend, shen he mixes his juleps, will be
unier renewed Obligations be ause the Un-
ion is restored, AMI free trade is re estab
lished b tween the States"
You have other and even more perma-
neDt crops. though than lee, have you notl"
Look At the fine cOionraie on the nor h
side of the Treasury hnI1tinl some day as
you are passing along Penusy lvsna avenue;
those ma estc liars are cut out Of the
solid granite beds found On the coast of
Maine In my old Congressional district. |
have seen single block OF this best of all
ores. from which monument eighty feet
in height was chlseled ont and the granite
works of Maine to-day furn sh the best
monuments in use. The crop, as you may
guess is not likely to give out. When you
drive over the streets of an Eastern city
that has substituted pavements for mud,
you may thsnk your stars that the Maine
quarry man and granite cutter are not like
the schoolmaster, abroad, but hard at work
at home"
"EIow about your forest wealth? You
are turning that TO use?"
If you want to sp' nd a month some
time in the summer in easy travel among
some scenes, you ought to take the Maine
Central Railroad and follow some of its
branches, with little stage excursions at
their ends. and see how pretty villages are
growing up abou, the manufactures of
paper, and wood pulp, and the hundred
forms into which ingenuity puts the pro-
ducts of forests, ts say nothing of Lewis
ton, Biddeford. Waterville, Brunswick and
other towns where great mills run. Most
of the old and big lumber has gone its way;
bu, we are beginning to find out that every
acre of land with its small growth Of
spruce, hemlock, fir, maple, beech and pop
lar is worth more than the old ground
ing pine
And in spite of their being so busy. DO
the people lind time to educate them
selves"
"Assuredly. Wherever you may 90 YOU
will fiud the schoolhouse, and, outside the
cities of the State, YOU will not find man.
woman or child above the age of ten years
who is not able to both read and write.
\ohniv h,s al al s.
Blair Educational bill to help in this direc-
ton"
while YOU are making your tour of
Maine, by the way, it will be well Tor You
to start at old York Beach and take ieis
urely trip along the finest coast of the Al
lautic sea board. You will need to engage
your passage beforehand, for you will find
yourself in the midst Of hundreds and thou
sands of eager people from almost every
State in the Union, fleeing to The green
shores and secluded retreats OF Maine.
They come like an army with banners. and
they take possession of every piace where
pure air, coolirg breezes aud the fin ST
scenery are 10 be found, They help build
good roads and graded streets I'll our ha-
oors With steam anu SAILING va. hts. sad he
most sensible of them erec. cottages, ranged
according to the Ieng Of ths;r purse. from
L little 81 600 eox 10 t. "Chstsworth" or
" Hoseiey ccstiag over 100000.
When the summer heet subsidies. these
visitors penetta,e The forests Of Maine and
are found upon The st. Csoi, or the Penob
scot, Al Moose Head, at Ringeley. and
wherever game and fish abound Taey
leave great deal of money in the State,
AID they come agsir The next year with a 4
their cousins ard their aunts and their
wives relations
"Thsts good But, with your TASTE and
facilities for shp-buiidluz. you ought to fit
out vessels enough to send all your visitors
home by the sea route "
We are Starting up ship-bnildiny aoain '