Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-02

| financial depression which sweep over
this land like tidal waves, leaving in
their wake blight and temporary deslruc-
| tion affect, least OF all. the State of
| Maine. Remote As We are from the great
commercial centers. with q hardy and
rigid climate which produces vigorous,
thrifty, intelligent and cultivated men
and women, who, by necessity, are COIN
peeled to have diversity of interests are
better fitted To stand the shock and dis
aster of business depression than any
other community in THE land.
| There are disadvantages many will
argue, that coma from living in Maine
but they are outweighed by the great ad-
yantages and biz s.ings we receive.
| You should cultivate n strong ger love of
your State and greater iLt,rcst in your
home Maine has peopied many Of the
middle ard western states. II her sous
and daughters only had burnt into their
souls early in life, what SO many realized
when it was 200 late to retrscc their
steps, that Maine was the best State in
this Union, we should b. an empire to-
day, with population fully surprising
that of any of the other New England
states. We have given our men and
l
| West. Let Us stem this tide and teach
| the rising generation thar there is no
place where every ambition eau DC so
we'll gratifed, where every profession and
vocation in life can be pGlsucd more sue
cesstully than il the good old State OF
Maine.
Let the work of the grange if it would
accomplish the highest ends and aims for
81 - n l.
! it its duty to teach the rising generation
that the vocation Of agriculture is one OF
the highest and most honorable pursuits
in life, one that brings as It's reward the
comfort and the purity Of home life, one
that cnnohles those engaged in its pur-
suits, and cnriches and improves orr
common country. Let tho grange teach
the young mind that We are dwelling in
the fairest. and the best land, under tie
best government ever voucbsafed to man
A government that expends annually in
education more than one hundred and
sixty millions OF dollars, "a greater sam
than is annually expended by Great
Britain, France, Germany, Austria aud
Italy combined that we live in a land
where 81 per cent Of the entire population
over ten years of age can read and write;
a record that in the history of the human
race no nation ever before possessed that
we live in a land that possesses nearly five
millions of farmers. the aggregate value
of whose farms, stock and implements
reaches sixteen billions of dollars; that
we live in a land trayersed by railroads
that furnish Transportation, on an
average, at about two cents per mile to
each person transported, and whose
freight charges, on an average, are less
than one cens per ton per mile--less than
one-half the charges for such services in
Europa.
Teach your children, and your child
rem S children that the farm is the trle
source of wealth; that the product of the
soil and the raw material which is
gathered from the field, the mines and
the forests are the foundation upon which
rests every occupation. "That the vast |
anG'various resources of the farm call |
into being every art that adorns, every |
useful invention and every science that |
enlarges the boundary of the field of |
knowledge; that the transportation of the |
tremendous quantity of farm product has |
called into existence the railroad system, |
into activity the ocean steamers that sail |
upon every sea and to every known mar
ket. For manufacturing its materials |
there have been erected establishments |
whose smoke darkens every sky. That its
product furnishes employment to labor,
and life and activity to our great COM
mercial csnters.
Teach your children thai no industry
can flourish ut the expense of another;
that agriculture needs commerce and I
manufactures; that the interes S of all are
identical that each great industry must |
labor in harmony and in good faith with
every other industry for the promotion
and welfare OF all The city, the town,
the thriving village are the markets of |
the farm The manufacturing and the
industrial centres create the demand for
the products Of the farm. The ships of
the sea and the railroad trains Of the land
are necessary to transport the products of
the farm to the great centres, where they
are consumed. That each acre plowed
means moro freight transported, mere
passengers carried; that each mill built
means u greater market.
No organization has wiGer field for
lofty work than has the grange 1t
should inspire its members with the doc
trine whic.. ut this season of the year,
comes with special force and power TO US
ALA doctrine that oil the wisdom of /
man has never equaled: "I.pve your
neiShbor as yourself" DO unto Others
us we would that Others should 10 unto
u.s." and just in the degree to which we
adhere to this doctrine will peace, happi
ness, prosperity, and all that makes for
be OURS. &
"he response was made by state Master
Wiggin, who said:
This address Of welcome coiEes from
one whose horizon is broader than most |
men, who touches currents and forces iii
many ways, and his words should not fall
on unhecding ears The grand specially |
for us is to make farming a speciality. |
Then results will be remunerative and the
farmers enabled to reach out and grasp
the most in life. Not only Is faith in our
profession to be cultivated, but there must |
be faith in Maine as never before.
ave 90 not appreciate the Advantages
which are ours Ii We would seek to learn |
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