The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-04-22

mission of the Sultan for. the Russian
Black Sea, heet to pass through the OAR
dahellss. The Baltic feet is also ready
to start under sealed orders.
Meeting of the Cumberland Pomona
4 Grange.
| Yesterday the Pomona mem bers. were
entertained at the Presumpscot Grange
on Windham street in Desring. Yhere
was good attendance the GorhaV, the
Wescustego, the Oak Hill, the Cape
Elizabeth. Westbrook, Windham and
Presumpscot being represented within
the county, and Saco and Waterford from
other counties. The great interest of the
meeting was In the address of the Master
OF the State Grange Hon. Edward
Wiggin. He occupied an hour and made
clear and able exposition Of the princi-
pies of the order, and gave an historical
resume of what the Patrons of Hus-
bandry had accomplished in national
| legislation, and the great progress in So
cial and intellectual culture, which had
resulted from grange work. After him
Hon. W. j. Corthell made one of his in
structive and entertaining speeches.
Speeches were also made by Griggs of
Westbrook, Deering Of Gorham, Hun
newell of Scarboro, Jordan of Cape
Elizabeth, Woodbury. of Westbrook,
| Morrill, of Windham. Sweetsir of Moth
Yarmouth and others.
The several oranges represented in the
iv,ce DO ;,, a.:
ton. A contribution was taken mp for
the Good Will Farm and SIS. 43 received.
| The rev master of the pomona. W. L.
Biokford of Gorham makes an admirable
presiding officer. MA
Tbs following assignments for future
meeting were made: Cape Elizabeth in
May, River Side in June, Naples ID July,
Wiscustego:in August, Pleasant River in
September, Westbrook in October, New
Gloucester in November. Gorham in JAN
uary, 1893, Gray in February, 1893,
Mr.. L. B. bennett said in part :s
AS have been fully oognizant Of the
noble efforts which the members of the
225 subordinate oranges of Maine, in
common with thousand of other citizens,
have made as petitioners to the three
last legislatures asking for the submits
sion to the votes of the people the con-
stitutional amendment against ssctarian
appropriations OF money, | desire to say
few words on that subject for your; in
| formation, as / constantly keep the sub
| ject we'll in hand and shall untilI that
star shall shine in our constitution, ii l
live long enough and the people still de-
| sire it, The opposition was in the Senate
and it was Financially obstructive and
! turned its face towards the middle ages
| Senators this year had the opportunity of
| life time to perform an act of ciRliza-
tion.g But they vera not equal to it.
Senators whose consoiences were neither
| informed nor reotifed did not blush even
when they voted to deny the people,
whose servants they were. the privilege
| of deciding for themselves by their votes
whether their constitution should be
| amended as proposed.
| The people of Maine had flooded the
| Legislature. and the Senate as part of
it, with petitions asking the Honorable
Senators to perform the mere formal act
7 of passing the technical resolution re-
| ferring to them the question Of the
| amendment, and by every consideration
which should and would influence en-
| lightened consciences the senators ought
| TO have granted the request, but by an
act of tyranny eighteen senators rebuffed
| the people. And this they did as a sur
| peme act of Senatorial dignity, Haunting
their assumed superior wisdom in the
| faces of the people of Maine. A concur
renee of circumstances running through
every legislature since 1891 discloses the
| fact, that there fmuSt have been some
! thing besides remarkable condolences
| to have commanded tho votes of SO MANY
senators in four different Legislatures to
vote away the peoples money to SO MANY
denominatiGnal academies.
| The inference ia well nigh iney liable
that the appropriation of 1891 for in
stance. when SOL, 500 were AquanderousJv
donated to twenty different academies
was nothing but, nor different from. q
bargain and sale of senatorial votes.
| WHAT other explanation can DO given
for the vote In the Senate appropriatino
five hundred dollars per annum for ten
years to the Washington academy et
| Fast Machias, when that institution ar
ready had fund of more than $50 Ooo
and which was increasing, and needed
no assistance from the state, and was
better able to give the State of Maine
$4,000 than Maine was able ito donate a
| like amount to the academy?
| Is it not clear that there was an in.
glorious mutually in senatorial votes on
! that occasion? An ecclesiastical m,1tual-
| ityl Is it not plain that the Sonata of
Maine cannot be trusted to defend The
treasury of the state against denomina-
tional selfishness and unscrupulosityp
For are we not justified in saving that
combination of academies of many
denominations entered into, as was th.,
case in 1891, to raid the treasury of the
state to the extent of more. thanlone hunD
dred thousand dollars was selfish ana
interruptions denominational oonsniracv .
If the Senate can donate 500. O0o what
will hinder it from appropriatina a
million dollarsP And has not that s.d .
prs edent and bargain of 1891 been t. Lan
advantage Of by those sectnrian acndo,
mics which were not included in the
orgina avs IIofspir snos Why eerapy
tilted itself in giving to new apnlicssn u .
be- ause others had received aid.
Nothing but the proposed constitution.
endment can keep these sectariaa
| hecgars from raiding the state treaai. ian