Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1895-02-27


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lion and the lamb will lie down together.
Neither will he contradict me in the state
ment that in the time of peace is the time
to prepare for war. Now what does the
State do assisted by the generous contri-
button made by the United States i'll re-
gard to the education of these young men
who go to that college, They are all edu-
Gated on the question of military science,
and l am told by good authority that
every young man who goes out OF that col
lege is able to form a militia company and
drill it, that he understands the move
mcnts of battalions, and some of them
brigade movements. | regard that as
something that is worth the price we pay
for this education. 1t is worth all the APP
preparations The State has ever made,
leaving everything else out Last year
when there students went TO Portland, the
papers were loud in praise of the military
appearance Of that battalion Does the
gentleman from Portland want to stranglc
that college; Let us treat this institution
the same as every other institution should
be treated, take care of it. or else down II
and put 1t out Of sight (Applause.)
Mr.. Hooper Of Castine said that the
case for the college had been ably present
cd by the gentleman from Natervile- L
til ink he has done it honestly and con
scienciolIsly, but some of us differ from
him. In regard to these grounds, the
gentleman from Greene (Mr. Gilbert) the
other day compared these grounds with IA
pasture Another friend of the college
says today that we have grounds there
that the State ought to be proud of. One
gentleman said that we We're not
friends to the college who vote
against it. We are not against
this college bu5 we are against a
large appropriation for ten years.
am for one Ii has been suggested that
we who vote against the bill don't know
anything. II we don't, it was not the
fault Of the gentleman from Waterville.
He told us over and over again the needs
of this college. how it compared with
other colleges of other states Now if he
did not get that through our thick heads,
it is not his fault; he did the best he
could and all the answer | have is text
of Scripture, that God has chosen the
foolish things of this world to confound
the wise That is where we are. Now
let us consider well the situation as there
will be more than five Democrats in this
House in two years to come.
Mr.. Noble OF Lewiston said he failed to
get any new light from the argument OF
the gentleman from Portland which
should change his opinion when the vote
is taken ! have listened to the gentle
man from Canaan tMr. Barrett), and |
fail to see wherein he has presented a
single new fact, a single new argument
that should change the vote of this House.
Let me ask the opponents of this bill,
why haven't you gone to the trustee of
this college Mr.. Haincs, who understands
the needs of the college, who can explain
the expenditures; why haven t you gone to
the president who has been here day after
day, and why haven't you gone over with
him the details of the expenditures If you
wanted to get at the bottom facts in re
gard to it? Will any opponent of this re-
solve say that he has been to either OF
these gentlemen? If not, then it is fair
for this House to assume that the argu-
ment which they advance is not directed to
the best interests of the college, but is in
direct hostility to it. One million five
hundred thosand dollars has been ex-
pended from all sources in the protection
of the educational interests of the
State. Is this sum lost? Is it
wasted by the State? BY no means. You
cannot measure the incalculable benefits
and blessings that come to this State
from the appropriation of money for edu-
cational purposes. our sons and our
daughters have gone to the West and
South, as pioneers of Southern and Vest
al h,, hnart If
son of Maine has glowed with JOY, and
with pride when he has heard the eulo-
gies which the West and the North and
the South has heaped upon the educated
sons and daughters of Maine who have
filled important and influential positions in
those sections of the country, and who have
been influential in uplifting and advan-
cling true American civilization. Has the
money expended in the education of those
boys and girls that we have sent out, been
wasted? l believe in matters which affect
the education of our sons and daughters
that we should err, if we err 1T all, on the
side of economy. We sent twelve men
down to that institution. They investi-
gated everything, everything was explain
ed to them, and they come back here and
present to this body a unanimous report
recommending the appropriation of $50
900, not for two years but for ten years.
But the Senate has cut it down from 10
years to two years, and the friends of the
college instead of attempting to fight
further, compromised and accepted the
cut down magnanimously, and it comes
back to this body; and | believe that We
are the representatives of the honor and
pride of the State as well rs guardians
its finances and watch dogs of its
treasury, and when we come to the qucs-
ton of legislation which affects our
humanitarian and educational associa-
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