The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1900-04-12
"Rot and Twaddle. I"
The State Board of Trade Heard Some
Vigorous Denunciation

| The State Board OF Trade Heard Some
Vigorous Denunciation.
Bishop Codman's report ed utterances
as to the decadence of Maine men came in
for considerable attention at the banquet
rendered by the Biddeford Board of Trade
to the delegates of the State organization.
Several of the speakers, notably W. W.
Stetson, State superintendent of schools,
and B. F. Chadbourne of the board of
railroad commissioners, took advantage
of the opportunity to refute the Episcopal
bishops allegations, and they replied to
him in lively and empha tic fashion.
| Mr.. Stetsop said, in part: "Massachu-
sets has faculty of raising men detit lent
mentally and detective morally, and then
sending them out in the world broadcast.
/ All of this nonsense and rot and twaddle
about Names reaching point at the top
of the hill and going down the western
side merits only the rebuke that silence
can give. | am well acquainted with the
boys and girls Of Maine, and ] know that
they have the best blood the world has
ever seen. They are large enough to stand
in the place of that nobest Roman of them
all, Han nlbal Hamlin: big enough, and
broad enough and strong enough and
intelligent enough to own the world and
run it, too. Don't talk to me for just
one moment that we haven't boys and
girls that are fitting themselves to stand
right before the world III the clear white
light Of day, and take the foremost places
in this country and the world. y
This talk about decadence,' said B.
+. Chadhourne, ''rennds me of a saying
,fI lash RillinuS hot tpr IN
know SO much than to know so much that
amt so. The amusing part of the talk of
Bishop Goldman is that he has hardly
stepped over the threshold of the State.
| don't believe he knows the first scintila
of the conditions OF the boys and girls of
our State. We have a right to judge of
the future by the past We thought for
time, perhaps, when our ''big four Con
| glessional delegation was bro en- up, that
we had cause for encouragement, but we
have now Littletield who has jumped
into prominence almost world wide. And
there are others like him. Names big
gest crop continues to be her crop of great
men. There are more railroad presidents
in the country to- day from Maine than
from any other State in the Union. 1t is
all bosh and rot to make the assertion that
Maine ism progressing to day with all the
! rest of the world.
, In BRIEF The sale of the household
Kate Chase Sprague, brought from Wash
ington to New York auction room, pro-
! duced $44, AS The old lace worn by
Kate Chase when she was presented at the
|
yard. A bust Of Salmon P. Chase was
purchased for s475 by Henry Willard, who,
it is said will present it to the Congress
sonal library at Washington. The late
| Mrs. Sprague was formerly the wife of a
Rhode Island governor....Q Queen Victoria
has cabed to Lord Roberts asking him to
convey to Mrs. Joubert, widow of Gen.
Joubert, the Queens sympathy in the loss
of her husband, and to tell her that the
British people have always regarded the
dead general as gallant soldier and hon
orable foeman.. In New Jersey since 1898
the good roads law has resulted in the
construction of 440 miles Of road, in thir-
| teen counties, at cost to the State of less
than $3.50, 900. This year PIP miles of new
road will be built at an estimated cost of
! 1856. 626, of which the State contributes
$50, 900. 900. Archibald Forbes, the we'll
known correspondent, died in London
March 30. He had been in bad health for
some years and during the last six months
had been unable to write. He married in
| Washington few years ago daughter of
/ Gen. Meigs, and had spent much time in
this country...... The exploring steamer
/ Southern Cross, bearing Herr Corsten
/ iceberg Borchgrevink and the survivors
of the South Polar expedition, fitted out
in 1898 by Sir George Newnes of London,
arrived April LIST, at Campbelltown, near
| Bluff Harbor, N. u. Herr Borchgrevink
reports that the magnetic pole has been
located. .. Forty eight young women ere
graduated March Doth from the wo-
man. law class of the University of New
| York. Miss Katherine Reed, daughter of
ex- Speak Ell Thomas b. Reed, was one of
the number. Supt. Alexis E. Frye of
the public schools of Cuba announces that
Harvard College has taken hold of the
movement to bring the 1000 school teach
ers from Cuba to Boston in order that
they may study American methods in
grand shape. A $500 guarantee fund
for their education has been assured.