The Portland daily press., 1895-07-09
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St1ute without the Ie1nple eutEueoOoj pAo
he doubted if they would have as much
pleasure if the organization was absent.
In Maine we need no instruction as to
their merits. am glad, said he, to vel
come you to Portland tonight, and glad
to introduce you to one who represents
tho people of Maine, Governor Cleaves,
who will extend the welcome of the state.
AS Gov. Cleaves stepped forward he
was greeted with loud applause. The
Governor said:
GOV CLEAVES'S ADDRESS.
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen:
1t is with pleasure that welcome to
our State the members of the American
Institute of Instruction. Your organizsa-
tion has exercised powerful influence
for more than sixty years in promoting
and advancing the cause of popular edu-
cation, and bring to you, with full and
overfowing measure, the cordial greet
ings of the people of Maine, and extend
to you generous welcome within our
| limits,
l need not come here to tender you the
| freedom of our magnificent and prosper
| Ouo OOdlIlOii WCelull3 1Ol bll0 kICdU CduSG
| you represent holds commanding posi-
tion in every city, in every town and
hamlet and home throughout our bor-
ders. Wherever you may travel within
our attractive and progressive domain,
you will find the cause Of education dear
to our people; you will be welcomed with
the greatest hospitality, and made to feel
that you are not strangers within our
gates.
We feel especially honored by your pres
ence in our Commonwealth, and appre-
ciate the distinguished honor bestowed
at your last session in the selection of
one of our own citizens as your Presi-
dent. You come to State that has al
ways shown it's devotion to the great cause
of education, and at no time in her his
tory has she ever failed to recognize THAT
the stability and safety and power of the
commonwealth could best be preserved
and promoted by the education of its
children.
Upon those who are directing the edu-
cational forces of our IT. country, a great re-
sponsibility rests. They are to grapple
with the problems of today, and meet the
new questions and conditions that are
rapidly crowding themselves, upon us.
We can but appreciate, however, even
with the advanced educational thought
of the present, that many of the old land
marks erected by our fathers are worth
fashioned is not to be despised.
Our State glories in her excellent edu-
| cational system; she boasts of the superb
| or advantages of her colleges and nuIner-
GUS seininaries OF learning; she takes
| natural pride in her normal schools, her
| academies and her grand free high school
| system. Her common schools, the ave-
nues to which are wide open to all, the
| nurseries of good and pure government,
are guarded with an enthusiastic pride;
and to the honor of our State, everywhere
upon the soil the cause of education sits
| enthroned, the standard never to be low
cred, but raised higher and higher as the
| years go by.
trust you may have an agreeable and
profitable session, and the good influence
| of your work will further stimulate the
cause of education; and whensyou return
to your homes may you carry with you
| the most pleasant recollections of our
State and her people. Welcome to the
State of Maine! ss-
After the applause had subsidized that
had greeted the Governor address, Presi-
dent Stetson said: Portland has long
list of names of which she is justly proud
and Of institutions in which she takes
pride, and in none more than in her
beautiful public library, the gift of one
of her most public spirited citizens It
is with great pleasure that introduce
TO you Mayor Baxter. 49,, .--.-
Mayor Baxter received a fattering
greeting. He spoke as follows:
MAYOR BAXTERS ADDRESS.
Among the duties officially devolying
upon me none is more pleasant than well
coming to our city the representatives Of
such noble associations as this, whose
purpose it is to promote the public well
fare by making. the blessings Of educa-
ton more and more available to the
| world.
Time was, though we can poorly re-
| alize it now, when 1t was contended that
universal education would so change the
| structure of society as to imperfl its exis-
tence and men, who claimed standing
| in the ranks of the thoughtful, conscien-
tiously opposed popular education on the
ground that it would incapacitate the
larger portion of mankind for industrial
pursuits; and, viewed from the stand :
point of such reasoning, there was IN 1t
an appearance of truth.
No farther back than Franklins time
education was largely theoretical, and for
some time later, continued following the
ruts of custom as though no other path
were possible 1t is true that Bacon, to
whom the world is SO greatly indebted for
splendid thoughts, uttered long before
| Franklin's time his we'll known aphorism
that, Education is the cultivation of a
just and legitimate familiarity betwixt
the mind and things; yet, although these
remarkably true words have vibrated
upon the ears of men for nearly three CEN
turies, it is only recently that they have
attracted any considerable attention.
/ Theoretical education, such as those who
oppose popular education were alone con-
sidering, might be of small use to the
masses of men, who were struggling, fof
existence; but, in this country. where
men from the start had to face the prao-
tieal problems of life, education Of neces-
sity involved to some extent familiarity
of the mind with things.
1t is curious to note however, that In
England; which still lacks public school
system, and where education Is much
more theoretical than with us, the ola
opposition to popular education still hnds
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