Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-22

you one more extract, from the Londo,
Economist this time-plain words from
| plain paper. This was written In Is.
when there was Il proposition to institute
lotteries IN England and Scotland to NEE
the losses of certain important banks
The Economist says: exit.
There are other aspects of the lottery
which come home even more closely Il
our hearts, women. EIOthers and sisters
The system strikes at the most vital Spo
! of the community-our children. Wha1
| lessons dld they receive at the time OF
! the fair: First, they learned that nav.
might be dtiied. might be broken with
impnnity, with cheerful consent. by PEG
pie whom they rightly loved and respect
| ed. rms was the first lesson. Then
oh! we know what else they learned. We
saw little girls and young maidens In
their opening bloom bes.egfng all whom
! they met for Votes that is, for money
to further this or that contest. We saw
them not only appealing to their friends
and acIuaintances. but making their way
into oftces where they might or might
not be known; going boldly up to strang-
ers in the street; nay, even attacking
strangers as they left or boarded train
with the same eager clamOr for money.
These things are called, am told. hold
up games'-a significant title. 1t is the
Kind OF appeal that not many men refuse
and that no man likes. Ask your hus-
bands, fathers, brothers. if l am mis-
taken.
Was it the children's fault? Are these
children likely to grow up as We would
have them grow. modest. maidenly, gen
tle' Sisters, ! ask you this
Again, we saw, among older yet still
young women, contes; spring up which
was carried on with Il feverish excite
ment heat and temper, that showed
well its nature and value. Again. we saw
but why should | so on? We all know
what we saw. We all know how we felt
at the time. And We know, too. that all
this was undertaken with the very best
motives. for a good object. Simply. We
did not realize the full significance Of
what we were doing. We said: oh.
what's the use? There have always been
schemes. We cannot get the money
Is that true, l wonder? l hope not. l
believe not. l believe that we can raise
as much money by plain. straightforward
methods; but even 1t were not. Is not this
a ease when expediency should be sac
rificcd to principle?
Fiat iustitia, ruat coelum.' my father
used to say: LET justice be done, though
the heavens fall" Better that we should
make less money by methods which we
can proudly avow. than make large sums
our heads and blush.
Dear friends. cannOt We, the women of
Gardiner. help a greet deal in bringing
we can. We have not realized, perhaps.
till now whittier all this kind of thing
was tending. Some of us have been busy
and others thoughtless. and others again.
perhaps the majority, SO full of good will
and good work that thehy have simply
taken hold of whatever came along, eager
to help wherever help WAS needed Well.
help is needed, will be needed, just the
same; and l know that we shall still be
willing and eager to give our time, our
thought, our labor, our money, when the
next call comes; but let us see to 1t that
all these things are employed i'm ways
that respond to our sense of what is right.
Above all. first and last and always.
let us not be discouraged. Our own poet.
Edwin Robinson. says:
Let music be the forward song for us.
And let us give the good world one chance
more"
say. let us give it twenty. a hundred
chances. Bear it in mind that we here
in Gardiner mean to do right, every one
Of us. What We must do now is to con-
vince ourselves and others that We have
been doing wrong. All hands once con-
vinced, the wrong will right itself. and
our lotteries will follow the Louisiana
one into that Limbo to which old abuses
SO. and from which. thank the God of
Progress, they never return.
Say not the struggle raught availeth.
The labor and the wounds are vain.
The enemy faints not. nor faileth.
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes. fears may be liars;
1t may be- in yOn smoke concealed.
Your comrades chase cen now the flicrS,
And. but for you. possess the field.
For while the tired waves. vainly break
ing,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlcts MAX
ing.
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only.
When daylight comes, comes in the
light;
In front. the sun shines slow. how slowly.
But westward, look, the land is bright.
Mrs. Richards then called upon who
so cared to speak on the subject Mrs.
Tandberg responded to the call ard in an
address of some length poured forth 4
vitriolic flood of elOquence that fairly
drowned the subject. She was followed
by Miss Eleanor Stevens and Mrs. Charles
Lowell All echoed the sentiments eX
pressed by Mrs. Richards.
The speeches were followed by refresh
ments which were served from IL table
representing the Randolph NJ. E. Ladies
Auxiliary, presided over by Mrs. Charles
Lowell and Mrs. George T.. Emery, and
a table representing the First Baptist
Society, presided over by Mrs. Watson
| and Mrs. Mari. Both tables were very at
tractively decorated and the edibles were