The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-03-22

strife. Before his mind was always the
hideous dragon shape, winged, mailed,
breathing flame, menace and peril to all
the pilgrims in the valley, perpetual
barrier in the path of human progress.
Against this giant form of evil, cumber-
ing the Kings highway, the arrows from
his culver were aimed. and, If they
wounded another, it was but an incident
and a sign of the violence OF the conflict.
And now, MIR. Mayor, on this spot
identified from AZ early period with the
history of Portland, as town or city, I'M
der the dome of our City ball, in response,
L believe l may say, to Your HOnor's
special equest that such portrait Of
among those of the Mayors of Portland
Your Honor possibly remembering how
slow as people we are with our public
works of art-with a tilial pride and
sense OF grateful obligation with which
we can all most deeply sympathize his
son delivers to the municipality this por-
trait of it's great Chief Magistrate, Your
Honor's predecessor in office nearly half a
century ago The other events Of the day
will soon be forgotten, but the name and
fame of Neal Dow, and the good intiu-
ences of his life and labor, will long re-
main. In the years to come the footsteps
of citizens and strangers, ana especially
Oh VlSlUUFS lTOul u Ql5UdASS3 WA1A 1AtiSSCl
about this portrait more, suppose, than
about any other in the honored line, and
when we begin the work OF erecting
statue TO his memory, (which we all hope
will not be long delayed-we shall find
the world interested in the undertaking,
and more persons ready and willing TO
take part in ii than would be similarly
other man who ever made his home in
Portland.
When we stand upon the deck of the
bark fast flying from the shore, and the
line of coast disappears and the headlands
and hills and all the land go down and
the islands are swallowed up, then Gas
Choate said of Webster, SO in another vein
we may say of this honored townsman of
ours) then the mountain appears, the
great moral or intellectual height. swell
ing far up from the subject and fading
vale, clouds and tempests and the noise of
waves at it's feet, eternal sunshine upon
its head.
Westminster Abbey has been called the
great temple of silence and reconciliation,
where the enmities Of twenty generations
lie buried.
Strange, in the presence of death, how
poor and small seem all the bitter contro :
yersies and enmities OF this world
Friend and enemy stand side by side,
with bowed heads, in the same silence,
ny tu0 &OOu JIletA RIoVOs UnOA Lib A@iO
has closed, all perceive that by some
subtle law of this uniyerse-in which law
are the very babitation and throne of the
eternal right-by some subtle law of the
universe what was best and truest in his
life and character has become the measure
OF their abiding and permanent value.
Differences cease. enm1t1es are silent.
The high purpose, the true motive and
intent, the noble endeavor, the great ex-
ample, nature takes these all to herself:
the world takes them to itself. They be-
come part of the universal order. Th cir
influence goes forth, IS the winds and the
waves to do the will of COG.
Goodness and greatness are not means,
but ends.
Hath he not always treasures, always
friends,
The good great MANI Tires treasures,
love and light,
And calm thoughts, equable as infants
breath;
And three fast friends, more sure than
day or night,
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death.
Rev. DR.. Burrage was then introduced
and spoke as follows:
DIR. BURRAGE'S ADDRESS.
This is an occasion of more than ordi-
nary interest. In all that has now SO
Justly and so felicitously been said con-
corning permanent memorials of the men
who have reflected honor upon this good
IL city, we are all, am sure, in heartiest
accord. OF such memorials beginning
has already been made in Franklin Sim
mons's beautiful statue of LongfelloW,
the poet beloved, whose gracious presence
here in the home of his birth had hardly
been missed when the movement Tor the
erection of this statue was commenced.
And now we have this admirable portrait
Of Gen. Neal Dow-a gift to the city in
spired by filial affection. With the ex-
Portland so widely known as has the
Father of Prohibition. For more than a
generation, wherever around the wide
world the friends of temperance have
grappled in close conflict with their oppo-
nents, they have done SO with words of
encouragement spoken by the leader OF
| the prohi bition movement. 1t is a mat
| ter for congratulation. therefore. now
| that he is no longer with us, that we have
this in every way satisfactory portrait of
| General Dow. The artist, Mr.. Walter
Gilman Page of Boston, with painstaking
| fidelity has done his work, and we eau
point to it as faithful representation of
| the form and features OF our late fellow
| citizen. But surely something more is
due to his memory; and as has already
been suggested, not many years should be
allowed to pass before we shall have in
our city, suitably located, statue Of
| General Dow in enduring bronze, some
thing for the eye of the passer-by even,
and from which the boys on the street as
well as the men of ripper years, shall re-
ceiye inspiration to the highest and no.
| blest purposes in life.
General Dow is generally thought Of as
a man with one idea. What he did for
the promotion OF temperance is indeed his
croWning honor. The harmful results Of
the drink habit he early recognized and
depIored. There were scenes of which he
was an eye witness that stirred his soul.
Who can wonder, then. that his thoughts
concerning the manufacture and sale of
| Intoxicating liquors at length dominated
him SO completely that other activities in
which men engage became subordinate
or we're entirely ignored. l am inclined
| to think, however. that his deepest inter
est in the cause of temperance grew out
of his interest in good citizenship. A
happy, prosperous community, was the
| high ideal that was ever before him, and
| to such ends as he believed would secure
the realization of this ideal he devoted
himself with an energy and single-heart-
edness that were the promise of success.
But he had continually within tho circle
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