The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-01-14

Probably, this audience was not pre-
pared to hear that shipbuildlng had fall
len to seventh place in Names manu-
featuring industries. may say however,
that this is by no means dead industry.
In 1890 tbs total output was 80 vessels or
all kinds. among them the largest sailing
vessel ever built in America, the crap
pahannock. % II er shipbuilders are turn
ing their attention now to the construc-
tion of steel vessels, and are successfully
competing with other builders in the
construction OF our new navy.
Paper manufacturing Is also greatly
increasing, since the use of wood pulp
was introduced into thaB industry; and
/ should also say here that Maine has be-
come noted for it's fine driving horses.
She is probably first in thu Union in this
class of horses as Kentucky is in raising
saddle horses.
But, Sir, Names browning glory is not
in her ships, that sail the seas over, not
in her FARMS nor in her horses. 1t is in
the men and women train ed in her In
stitutions of learning, mbined with
home industries, and who have not only
carried on successfully the Affairs.o 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 doldsnith's lines:
GIL fares the land, to Fastening ills
prey,
We're wealth acGumulates. and msn de-
cay;
Princes and lords may flourish or may
fade,
A breath can make them, as breath
has made;
But bold peasantry, their country "a
pride,
When once destroyed, can never be sup
Piled"
To the healthy culture of her children
Maine has given her first thought. Her
free schools have been kept ABREAST of
the times in all their appointments and
Made not only available but attractive,
while habits Of industry in the home and
every here, have been studiously encour-
aged. In recent years compulsory atten-
dance school law has been made, to meet
the demands of her imported factory
population. This measure protects she
state from iliittracy, while the Maine
prohibition liquor law-an institution
invented, perfected, and steadily support
ed by ibs people-and specifically Maine
production, prCtaets the youth from the
most pernicfous OF all habits. drunken
ness. These circumstances have conf
bined to support the familiar remark
that Marie is good stats to be born in,
remark often made facetiously | fear,
vet with fine thread of reserved serious
ness between tho lines.
The few examples j shall now give of
men and women of Maine, and their
work at home and abroad, will be select
ed TO make good the claims here set
forth.
Israel Wash burn, son of Captain
Israel yashburn of Revolutionary fame
and % descendant of he secretary OF
Plymouth Colony, settled in Maine as q
shipbuilder, and later made his home on
O farm in the town of Liyermore in 1909.
His four sons, Israel Jr., Elihu B.,
Cadwallader O., and Charles A., born
II the first quarter of OR century, wore
trained to industry on the farm. educat-
ed in our schools AID colleges and set
tied in four states HMaine, Illinois, Wis
cousin and California, three rs lawyers
and one as an editor. In the early 6ftles
three OF these brothers met on the floor
of Congress representing Maine, Illinois
and Wisconsin, and served with distinc-
ton through that heroic decade which
led up, through may stormy debates 60
the War of Secession. When the Crisis
came, Israel the elder brother, returned
to Maine and became it's War Governor.
klihu B. remained in Congress to the
close Of the War, then became President
Grants Secretary of State and, later,
was cent as Minister to France. @. G.
Washburn the younger of the three. re-
signed his seat in Congress and went TO
the field under Grant with Wisconsin
Regiment. He rose to the rank of Major
Gen eral in 1862. and served with dis
tinction to the and. The fourth brother
Charles A. after years Of success as an
editor in California also went abroad as
United States Commissioner, and later
as United States Minister to Paraguay.
Nearly contemporeneous with Washburns
were thu Lovejoy brothers. They were
born at Albion, educated for the minis
try, one, Elijah P, at Waterville College
now Colby University, and the other
Owen, at Bnwdoin College. The former