Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-02-24


Winterport; r. D. Leavitt, Howe's Cor
ner; b. F. Hamilton, Biddeford; Otis
Meader, Albion; Ansel Holway, Skowhe
gan.
County Deputies.
| Androscoggin county-Eli Hodgkins
Greene j. l.. Lowell Auburn.
Aroostook county-H. S. Hardison
Caribou Ira J. Porter, Houlton; Benz
ii. Towle, Sherman Mills.
Cumberland county-Lewis Jordan
Naples; f. &. Blanc hard. Yarmouth
Franklin county-B. f. Neal New
lSharon.
kennebec county, H. Barton, West
Windsor; Chas. W. Crowell Riverside.
Knox county-C. NJ. Lucas, Union :
Lincoln county-G B Walters, North
Waldoboro; l.. H. Ford, Whitefeld
Oxford eounty-G. W. O. Pcrham,
Bryants Pond; c. H. George, South
Paris
Penobscot county-George 4. Friend.
Etna; Boyden Bearce East Eddington
Mark Bond. Corinna; Fred A. Grindell,
South Springfield.
Plscataquis county,. S. Bearce, Fox
croft.
Sagadahoc county,. f. Upton, Bath
&c. Mallett Topsham.
Somerset county-Luke Holway, North
Fairfield; G, Fl. Jones, Athens.
Waldo county,. G. Harding, Waldo
Station; W. H. Given, Prospect.
Washington. county-A. S. Farnsworth,
West Pembroke; Is. f. Wiley, Cherry
field
York county,. W. Dearborn, NJ. d.,
Maplewood; Seth Sinnott...
The following address from the State
masters office to the Patrons of Aroos-
took county, is self-explanatory, and
affords most conclusive evidence of the
careful attention which Mr.. Wiggin is de
voting TO his work at the head of that
great and powerful organization, the
Maine State Grange;
Brothers and Sisters
| An unprecedented and unlocked for
condition confronts yod. In the midst Of
plenty you find yourselves financially en-
| barassed. With one of the most abundant
crops of your particular staple ever pro
duced, you are unable, on account of the
| failure of the market, to realize the
money with which to meet the liabilities
| you have incurred. He is not your true
| friend who, in this emergency, will con
| tent himself with reminding you that
| with your method of agriculture, nothing
| else was to have been expected than that
at some time you would find yourselves
| in your present situation. The first ques-
tion to be considered is not how you got
| into this embarrassing condition, but
rather how you shall best get out of it,
| Let present duties be attended to first
| then the lessons to be learned from this
| unfortunate experience can be duly con
sidered.
One half the terror of the situation dis
appears at once when you look it boldly in
the face. Though passing though a season
of financial depression, no one is suffering
for the necessaries of life. No Aroostook
farmer is ill-fed or scantiiy clad, and TO
child goes supperless to bed. You have
comfortable homes and well filled barns
and store houses. A genial sky is over
head, and beneath your feet is the most
fertile soil in New England. Were it not
that you had contracted debts which the
large crop now on hand was relied upon
to pay, you would know no such thing as
embarrassment.
Looked then, squarely in the face, the
only difficulty is that you owe debts tina:
you have not the present means to pay,
What then is TO be done? First let me
tell you what must not be done. Lei me
implore you in behalf of the good name Of
Aroostook and the honor OF her farmers,
that no one spend one moment in delib-
Grating how to avoid paying any debt
honestly contracted. l have all faith that
you will act the honorable part. 1t is a
| matter OF PRIDE that up TO cate very rev
| Aroostook farmers have sought relief
from the insolvency courts. Brothers
and sisters, the road to honor lies not that
way. stand erect in the pride of honest
manhood and womanhood, and say to
your creditors: Gentlemen you under
stand the situation and well Know why at
present we are unable to pay We do not
intend that you shalt lose one dollar OF
the debt we honestly owe you, but we
must have time. with an average market
next year we hope to be able to meet all
demands. large portion OF the debt
owed by the farmers OF Aroostook Is for
fertilizers used last spring, Say to the
fertilizer companies; Gentlemen, it is