Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-19
NAMES WELFARE


With confidence, railroads are built
their wheels are turned, and the spin
dIcs hum; capital is active, and labor
fully employed. With confidence. busi-
ness Of the greatest magnitude il
transacted with but little gold or sill
YER Notes and checks are the com
mercial appliance which turn the busy
world and build its railroads and its
mills.
If there is no confidence. there is not
money enough in the United States 10
conduct the business of New England.
Confidence will come when we
have a revenue system so clearly de-
fined 50 firmly established that the
people believe IL to be infexibe and
unvarying. and that it viii remain un-
changed, except in minor details; then
the area of our Industries will enlarge
and extend like the rays Of the rising
sun.
Mr.. Chairman:-I believe that ]
have fully complied with the law that
requires an afterdinner speaker in
making his address, to make no allu-
sion To the topic assigned him.
Hon. Henry Lord OF Bangor. president
Of the State board, followed, responding
to THE State Board Of Trade" He said
The Maine State Board of Trade
was organized at Portland in Septem-
Der 1889 At that time there were nine
local boards. Today, there are about
fifty. The State Board has held thir
teen business meetings and its mem
bers have been guests at thirteen ban
Thee. nrat h4rfrDG lt11n
held in nearly every county in the
State Al these business meetings
and banquets many Of the ablest, most
enterprisirs and most public spirited
men of this state have been present
and discussed matters of interest and
Importance to the people of Maine
Men prominent in politics. in the pro-
fessions. in every line of business.
have united in their efforts to advo-
cate measures that should promote the
welfare of oar state.
This Board was organized at time
when the young men were leaving the
State in large numbers. and the money
of our people was being invested else
where The remarkable change of
sentiment which has taken place of
late is unquestionab largely due to
the work of the Maine State Board of
Trade and its constituent members
the local boards of trade.
Today not only the business men
but The people of the State have a
larger knowledge of Names great re-
sources and natural advantages. Con-
sequently, there is a greater faith in
her future. The young men of the
State are remaining at home and the
money of the State is being invested
here. No other organization has been
able to call together so many of the
prominent men of the State. represent
ing every walk of life, as has the Maine
State Board of Trade. At its gather
ings have been found the governor. ex-
governors. members of Congress,
judges of the Supreme Court college
presidents and professors. representa-
tives of the State Grange, leading
manufacturers. merchants. ship own
ers, and business men,-aH united for
common purpose-the promotion of |
the general welfare of the State of |
Maine and her people
The papers that have been read and |
the speeches made at the meetings of |
this organization have been published |
IN Inc PdEtlS VI lIit Ntdtt- nave DteH |
read by the people. and have carried |
information far beyond the bor,- IS of |
Maine. The work is conceded es ry- |
where to have been a good one, and |
may it long continue.
President Butler of Colby, followed on
= College Men In Business,
Col. f E. Boothby responded to
Names Business as Indicated by Its
Rolling Stock
Technical Schools and Colleges.
Their Present Work and Future In
fluence Upon Business" was responded
to by Prof \. w, Harris of the. State
College
Hon. A. r. Savage spoke to "Spinffles
North and South; Effects of latter ON
Maine
Hon. Edwin Wiggin responded to
Manufacturers. saying:
Merchant and Manufacturer" was the
subject of which Hoo. Edward Wiggin
confined his remarks, and which he ably
discussed.
| interpret the honor of an invitation TO
,e your guest. tonight, not as any compli-
nent to myself personally, but as a recog
lition by the State board of trade of that
great organized body of the farmers of
Maine, of which have the honor at pres
mt to be the official head.
And | assure you, gentlemen, that you
10 well in thus recognizing the farmers of
he state; for in all that pertains to the
Material interests of Maine, to the develop
nent OF her resources and to her advance
nent along the lines of industrial pro-
'ress, agriculture must be an important
actor.
The relation Of agriculture to com
nerce, manufactures and transportation
S most intimate one and one that has
lot in the past received the recognition
which it has deserved
Mr. Wiggin spoke of the vast system of
inland transportation made possible
Argely by agriculture; that system by
which the products of the farm are trans
orted from the field to the market, also
rom the farm to the seaboard to be ex-
orted to foreign lands
Though Maine is not so distinctivcly an
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