Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-21

people.
think. therefore. that we have every
reason to look forward to the future
with the utmost confidence that it has
much CT blessing in store for us. Maine
races the rising, not the setting sun,
ana her people are. and will he, true to
her motto. "Dirigo.''
PRES. BUTLER OF COLBY UNI
VERSITY
was the next speaker We regret
ehat we cannot give verba-
tim report of President Buffers
remarks for the following running alb
ssract does scant justice to it. He
said:
Mr.. Superintendent, Ladies and Cen
eiemen: In one of the old Bible mar
ratlves one of the characters asks the
pertinent question: What shall the
man doeth who cometh after the
King You perceive that is my pre-
dlcament. l am very grateful GER
talnly, for the honor of being included
IN this company, and for this addition
al compliment of being asked to par
ticipate in these exercises.
l have a personal friend living in
chicago. VINO once said to me, "all the
wise men come from the East, if they
are wise" What we have seen and
heard here, tonight, convinces us that
there are a great many wise men who
nave not gone from the East, but who
are living and working here contented-
ly and gladly, making the East a very
desirable place in which to live. Ger
tainly 1T would not be proper for me at
the close of this complete programme
to speak at any length
am glad, however, to say with en-
phasis that l heartily believe in what
this occasion represents, namely, just
appreciation of the principles which
carried into our lives tend to make our
homes inviting and wholesome and full
of light. 1t would be hard to conceive
OF anything more harmonious it seems
to me, than this beautiful room IN
which such gratifying changes have
been wrought, and which we regard
With obvious respect as "a place in
which SO much of the important bust
ness of the State is transacted AS an
educator and one interested in educa-
ton l can imagine few greater bene-
fits than would be derived
from bringing the boys and girls on
periodically to the halls of
the State House and let them learn
what they would from personal obser-
walton. The things of interest in this
Capitol, and the leading men who fire.
quent the place would go far to give
them a lifelong respect for govern
ment.
l have never lost the impressions that
I received at the Capitol when was a
boy with my father at Washington in
81 and '63, and l have never forgotten
a visit l once made to Governor Cony,
at his home on the hill over the river,
when he placed his hand on my head
and spoke some kindly words direct to
me as "a boy, and so l can say that what
would be seen in this building would be
of special value to the young, for fam
iliarity with the scenes and associa-
tons of such a place is adapted to i'm
press most emphatically the people
with respect for the dignity Of govern
lnent, and for my part, l think that
there is nothing that we need more to
nculcate and more jealousy to guard.
One of our great boasts is our individ-
ual independence. and that is some
times lost by failure to hold it in prop
ar subordination.
The loss of the Portland, that over
disaster, was, if we are
eighty informed. due wholly to the fact
that a subordinate did not obey orders
We think there is a serious danger
right along this line. We see it every
where, and educational work should
have as one of its highest aims to in
culcate respect for legitimate authori-
ty This is one of the most important
things we can impress upon the rising
generation.
[ am somewhat familiar with the
state capitols of North Carolina, of
Ohio, of Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, of
Massachusetts and New
York, but there is net one af them that
more distinctly impresses me with re-
spect than this fine Did State House on
he Kennebec, and | feel like congratu-
ating my fellow citizens on their sup
arintendent of public buildings, and l
think Col. Stevens ought to know, and
am sure he does know, how he is uni
regarded by the people of
Maine, WHO Ieel GIlpidtiNdily AiC ~
he right man in the right place.
/ wish, also, to take this opportu-
nifty TO congratulate my fellow citizens
unon their Governor. / feel that Gov
ornor Powers ought to know, and | be-
lieve he does know that he is entitled
to- take his place among the best Gov
ernOrs Maine has ever had. / don't
srosw that he has any personal enc
mics. but it may be presumed that he
has some political ones, and the best
eulogy that can be pronounced upon
MIS- conduct of State affairs, with the
,raculiar and trying problems that have
confronted him is to say, in all truth,
that if has been such as to give emf
napt satisfaction to his friends and inn
mense encouragement to his political
enemies. The State has been fully IN
he ewes of the world-indeed the mere
name of the State has been echoed and |
ra-ecnoed around the world in con-
nection with the explosion which took |
MACE in Havana harbor.
7 cannot doubt that the duty of this |
;tate will be resolutely faced and fear
assIv performed in the course of future |
wants and that it's citizens will be |
,nnony the first to discover the true |
e,irit in which we should solve the new |
,r,ble,ns pressed upon u.s. do not |
are to adopt the terms which nave |
,aan applied to the new policy forced |
,,,,n5us by the responsibilities that |