Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-02-17

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of them. at least, Is rated to be worth
s2O0,0O0; *450O a year would be an aver
ageof $l4.42 per day for every week day
In the year, Sundays alone accepted,
and this certainly to the average citi-
zen would seem to be a. reasonable
compensation for services rendered.
And I am sure that any man from the
country, at least, would consider that
he might have all the necessities and
some few luxuries of the world upon
this amount. sT
Four thousand five hundred dol
lars! How does that strike you,
professors OF colleges. teachers of
the public schools. ministers, doctors
and men engaged in literary pursuits? :?
How many of you are receiving $500
in clean cold cash? How does 1t strike
you, mechanics, carpenters, black
smiths and men engaged in mechanical
pursuits? How many Of you are re-
ceiving $14 day or even one fourth OF
that amount? How does 1t strike you
my farmer friends. you who are the
backbone and the life blood OF the re-
public. you who are working IA hours
per day every week day in the year,
and four hours on the Sabbath, at an
average of 80 cents per day? Do you
think the State is fugal and mean with
it's judges? And do you think their
salary should be increased to ST. per
day? ~
] ask one more class OF men. and it
Is one interested in a business with
which l am somewhat familiar. the
manufacturers. Everyone at all famil-
lar with manufacturing knows that we
have passed through four long years of
depression, low prices, for manufactur-
ed goods and hard times, and. the best
of us have been hardly able to hold
our own. We have run our mills and
operated our factories when at the end
of the season we would have been glud
to exchange our dividends for very
meagre salary.
But, sir. through the great efforts of
our late lamented congressman Of the
End District. and the bill bearing his
name. and with the assistance of the
best national administration ever Civ
en- the republic since Lincoln. we hope
We can see the sun of prosperity peep
ing through the clouds of adversity and
depression, and trust in the near fu-
ture we may behold 1t in it's fullest
glory. But does the discreet manu-
facturer. upon the anticipation of bet
ter times. increase the wages Of his
employees. or does he wait like a wise
man until he himself begins to reap the
benefit of higher prices and better mar
kets and some return for his capital in
vested?
Now. gentlemen. all ask of you is
to carry the same rules and principles
into the affairs of the State that YOU
employ in your own business affairs.
Inc state demands this of you; your
constituents will be satisfied with
nothing less. The politician who cares
notnlng Tor the vast business interests
ne Is supposed to represent must go to
the wall and the narrow minded parti-
san must be swept out of the path OF
progress where too long he has been
an obstacle. and the business and in
dustrial men will have more 20 say in
the shaping of our laws
HhS uStH suggested DIV friends of the
bill that some of the legal lights from
our large cities had refused an appoini-
ment to a judgeship on the ground that
the salary was insufficient for their sup
port. rms doubtless is true, for there are
some few lawyers who have as clients
large firms and corporations who are will
ing 10 pay extraordinary and exorbitant
ices. much more than the average citizen
could afford to pay for advice. and it is
certain that these lawyers would not ac
cept an appointment at much larger sal
prove that they would be any more com.
petent or efficient judges than some OF the
lesser known and more conscientious law
Sers OF the rural districts. If my con-
ception OF the office Is correct, il does not
reQuire the greatest statesman, the most
eioqueht orator or even the most bril-
',nnt h,,i hlwyec to fiji the position acceptabIy
GATED man. one in whom the people have
confidence and in whom they can trust.
Sueh men, sir, can be found in every
nevnr nSvarS 81 IN % this state and the Office viii
hn men, our best lawyers. who are living IN
nopes that some future day they. too.
,S the ra,nnd ENJOY the honor the glory. and even
SIT, It would be contemptible to speak
r!eproachfully of the Court OF Maine or
tha' IT Is retrogradinE.
', ny look at the judges upon our su-
Judge Andrew p Wisweii. Judge WI.
nam nam, =. Fogler; More honest, able, con-
,ious. well HtleO men cannot De
found upon the bench in New England.
ana; ~ sir, proud as | am Of Judge Savage.
!, am frank to say. in the presence Of this
distinguished body, that AndrOscoggin
county still has more material of the
same kind. Why, sir, Androscoggin to-
LAY ~ VIII take the contract to provide
ludges Tor the supreme court for the next
century at the salary already paid.
III, laughter and applause) And we will
VIII bring men that we will not be
ashamed Of, either i1
II is not true that all Of our great men
came from the large cities; they were
not all born in homes of luxury.
l remember 3S years ago this coming
summer. when the old temple Of liberty
was was shaken to its very foundation. and
men trembled. for fear that II would b.
shattered: We took a man. of the people
.or leader. man who knew how to
build log cabin and fence his acres with
rail- and who later built the citadel OF
Individual. universal, and unconditional
freedom and fenced 1t with the strong
lrm of constitutional law. And re-,
member that associated with Abraham
lincoln was our own Hannibal Hamlin
II Oxford County. Maine. the jisiin.