Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-03-12

is no reason why Colby should get this
,noney and Bates should not
Up to two years ago, every session Of
this Legislature was flooded with de-
mands from the different academies Of
the State, asking for appropriations
Two years ago that periodical grab
was done away With and the academies
We're placed under a general law regu-
lating the amount which they are to re-
ceiVe; and that was the best piece of
Legislation passed by the Legislature
of 1901. This resolve opens 4 door that
has just been closed If you allow this
institution to enter, you will find an
lunceasing demand from other institu-
lions, Colby College is we'll looked out
for as it is 1t has a large endowment
it has 4 large body Of devoted alumni
and it is looked cut for by its Genomi-
nation, and it will be looked out for in
the future. And you must remember
that in addition to this you have insti-
tutions to look out for which have q
right to call on the State for aid, the
Normal Schools, the Maine Industrial
School. all those arc calling for appro-
priations and those appropriations
must be cut down because the State
has not sufficient funds to meet Them
| You are taking from these institutions
when you are giving to Colby, or any
other college of that sort. The Normal
Schools are asking for $4,000 and $50
600, for all of which there is the most
urgent need. These Normal schools
are the most important educational
factors in our educational system.
There is nothing which the common
school system needs more than good
cftCient Normal Schools to supply
| them with trained teachers. It is be-
c2use their appropriations are being
! cut down that, / believe, you should
I not grant this appropriation to Colby
| College. Let these institutions that
are not wards of the State, that have
not dared to come here for years to
| ask for an appropriation, l say let
them lock out for themselves; and they
perfectly capable Of doing 50.
| Mr.. DAVIS of Watervile: Mr.. Speak
CT, l rise to oppose the motion to sub
stitutc the minority report for the ma
i .iority. | do it not as a graduate Of
| Colby College I do it in part because
! having lived under it's wallis for the
| past % years, | have had an oppOrtun-
| ity to observe something of the grand
work that institution has been doing.
| | do it with the firm belief that the
members of this Legislature will not do
an injustice to one of the institutions of
| this State which is doing and will con-
J tinue TO do a grand work in this State.
| | wish to correct the statement of the
gentleman from r'reeport (Mr. Ran
| dalD, as to the cost Of the building de-
! stioNcd | do not know what the origi-
nal cost may have been, but 1t Is safe
| to affirm that the building cannot be
REPLACED Mt any less expense than from
$35, coo to $4,000 There never was a
time when ii was true that that build
ing cost $4,000. / wish to make this
correction that gentleman may under
stand that part CT the question.
The gentleman from Freeport has
urged tho matter Of precedent and the
opening Of a new door. Gentlemen,
there is nothing ir that thing and we
all know it. In this particular in
stance. Colby has been a State bene-
tici1rv in the past. OF almost every
Other Institution in the state, whether
secular or religious, this might be said.
1t was true two years ago when the
| Legislature appropriate n sum for the
lCatholc institution OF Lewiston; it is
true this year: and, Mr.. Speaker ! hope
the time will never come when we shall
decide the merits of Il claim of this sort
on the grounds of precedent or on the
grounds of religion. 1t was made clear,
] think, to the committee by the Hon.
Mr. Loonay of Portland, a Catholic and
La graduate Of Colby, that in all his
-FOUR years course he was not asked a
question as to his religious preferences.
think it was stated clearly to the
committee that a young man could en-
ter those walls and finish his four years
course. and it might never be known
what his religious preferences We're.
And because that institution is a re-
lgious institution, because, fOrsooth, it
may have upon its board of trustees
Baptists in control. because it educates
Ial children alike in the higher
branches, is there any good reason why
a Baptist should not be educated, why
la Catholic should not be educated, or
anyone of any other belief who should
go there believe not. | believe that
we should understand also that this is
not a question of pauperism. The gen
tlcman SAYS it is not question Of
emergency. 1t is question Of emcr-
gency. The institution is crippled by
this calamity which has overtaken it;
and while it is not crippled to the ex-
tent that it cannot and will not do its
work. it is crippled to the extent that
lit cannot do that work in the near
future as Wen: and it is a question
for this Legislature to decide whether
among all the beneficiaries and among
all the claimants that come here. this
claim is a nleritorious one. and whether
it should not be considered on the same
| basis and along the same lines as
every other. If an institution belong
, ing to the state is departing from the
intent Of the original plan, it might be