The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1897-07-15

order OF their productive importance they
stand as follows:
Factories. Operatives. Wages. Products.
Cotton Goods a 1z,o00 S3,oo0o00 Sl4,00I000
Lun VIM Goods s4s VV9 3 40. .o oo SS oc"
Leather IS HOO 800, 900 1000 600
shoes 81 $500 100000 5,S0O000
chllbl Dig o19 1000 e40,0 600 $3.50 900
Paper Y loo 4O0,loo 2,l5ooO0
Probably this audience was not prepar-
ed to hear that building had fallen
TO seventh place in Names manufacture
ing Industries. | may say, however, that
this is by no means dead industry. In
1890 the total output was So vessels of all
kinds, among them the largest sailing yes
sci ever built in America, the Rappahan-
mock, 5000 tons. Her shipbulders are
turning their attention now to the con-
struction of steel vessels. and are success
tally competing with other builders in
the construction of our new navy. Pa
per manufacturing is also greatly increas
ing since the use of wood pulp was intro
duced into that industry; and l should
also say here that Maine has become not
ed for It's fine driving horses. She is prob
ably first in the Union in this class of
horses, as Kentucky is in raising saddle
noises.
But sir, Names crowning glory is not
in her ships. that sail the seas over, not
i'll her farms, nor in her horses. 1t is in
the men and women trained in her lnsti
tutlonS of learning, combined with home
industries, and who have not only carried
ON successfully the affairs OF their own
State, but have made their mark in the
march OF progress and development which
has crossed the continent. Her people
from the beginning realized the force of
Goldsmith S lines:
III fares the land, to fastening ills prey,
here wealth aceuuulates, and men decay !;
IrIncts and lords may flourish or may fade.
A Breath can make them, As breath has
made:
But bold peasaitry, their c0untry's pride,
W len once destroy u, can never be supplied
To the healthy culture Of her children
Name has given her first thought. Her
Tree schools have been kept abreast of the
times in all their appointments and made
MOI only available, but attractive, while
hdblts OF industry III the home and every
NAele, have been studlously encouraged.
III recent Years a compulsory attendance
school law has been made, to meet the de
man'ta OF her imported factory population.
his measure protects Che State from illit-
eracy while the Maine lrOhi bition Liquor
LaW-an institution inverted, perfected
ana steadily supported by its people
specifically Maine producton-protects
the youth from the most perncious of all
habits, drunkenness. These ciIcum-
stances have combined to support the IA
milan remark that Maine is "a good
State to be born in a remark often
made facetiously, | fear, yet with a fine
thread Of reserved seriousness between
ls4 Iiranc H.
give of men and women of Maine. and
their work at home and abroad, will be
selected TO make good the claims here set
forth.
Israel Washburn, a son of Capt. Israel
" ashburn of the Revolutionary fame and
descendent of John Washburn, Secre-
tary Of Plymouth Colony, settled in Maine
as shipbuilder, and later made his
home on farm in the town of Livermore
n 1902 His four sons, Israel, Jr, Elihu
b., Cadwalleder c., and Charles A. born
I the first quarter of our century, were
trained TO industry on the farm, educated
II our schools and colleges, and settled in
four States, Maine, Illinois, Wisconsin,
and California, three as lawyers and one
as an editor. In the early fitties three of
these brothers met on the floor of Con-
gress representing Maine, Illinois and
Wisconsin, and served with distinction
through that heroic decade which led up,
through many stormy debates, to the
War OF Secession. When the crisis came,
Israel, the elder brother, returned to
Maine and became its War Governor
Ellhu B., remained in Congress to the
close OF the war, then became President
Grant Secretary Of State and, later, was
sent as Minister to France. G. c. Wash
burn, the youngest of the three, resigned
his seat in Congress and went to the field
under Grant with a Wisconsin Regiment.
He rose to the rank of Major General in
1867 and served with distinction to the
end. The fourth brother Charles A.,
after years of success as an editor in Cali
tornia, also went abroad as United States
Commissioner, and later as U. S. Minis
ter to Paraguay.
Nearly contemporaneous with the
Washburns were the Lovejoy brothers.
They were born at Albion, educated for
the ministry, one, Elijah p, at Water
vile College, now Colby University, and
the other, Owen, at Bowdoin College,
The former went to st. Louis, Mo-, where
he become editor of religious paper
be was a man of strong convictions on
the slavery question, and with courage to
correspond. He was repeatedly mobbed
and outraged and finally murdered by a
pro-slavery mob, martyr to the cause of
free speech and press. His brother Owen,
minister in Illinois, made vow to
avenge the murder of his brother by
devoting his life to the destruction of
slavery, which had been the cause. He
entered political life and also came to
Congress from Illinois in the midst of that
same ''irrepressible conflict in 1856.
Here and everywhere, in public and in
private life, he used all his energy, and
his wonderful eloquence, against human
slavery; as an author has said, ''amidst
fierce threats and insults, and often in
peril of assassination. l will quote here
remarkable and most prophetic speech
delivered in Congress amidst storms of
abuse and threatened violence, ON the
fifth of March, 1860. 1t will be remem-
bered that the situation had been greatly
intensified by the John Brown raid and
tragedy only few months before. Ad-
dressing the Southern members, he said,
T., You, who advocate the perpetuity Of