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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-27

WlN1EEP"iil.
Another chime Of wedding bell, was
heard in town last week, and two more
couples were made larpy Oh the same day.
Wednesday afternoon Miss Fife Curtis and
Nh. James Foley were united in marriage
by Rev j. F. schneider. The wedding took
place at the home Of the brides mother in
the presence Of the Immediate relatives.
The house was prettily decorated with
flowers, Refreshments were served, many
nice gifts received, and the happy pair de-
parted on a short wedding trip. In the
evening OF the same day the mother of the
bride, Mrs. Estelle Curtis. and Mr.. Daniel
Young were married at the Methodist par
sonage, Rev. W. A. Luce officiating. Con-
gratulatiOls and good wishes for all are eX
tended by their many friends. On the
evening before her marriage a ''linen
shower" was given Miss Curtis by her
friend Miss Clara Atwood, A number of
her young friends were invited, a pleasant
social time was enjoyed, and d goodly
Prof. ktckWith supplied the Congl
pulpit last sunday. Mrs. Jennie b.
Myers Of the Children'S Protective Associa-
ton spoke IN the NJ. f. church Sunday
evening Miss Sophie h. Chase accom-
panied Mrs Myers to her home in Thorn
dixie. where the Chiidren's Home is to be
located. ...Mrs. Thomas Houston OF Boston
visited relatives and called on a few old
frfautis ip TOWN last week Miss Belle
Tbayer is at home from the Bangor Hos.
,Iittl much I,nproy4d in health. Rabbi
W'bartf !, making a trip with Mr.. Lewis
ttuJ,l,j lvaI lis forte,.!. Mrs. Ella Penny.
who i'm. b44n with her brother. Rev. |. ii,
W Wharf, fol some months, has gone to
Groun T1Lt3fa She win 20 to houSekaanina
n,114b IT, ne. regret Of 6pr friend, here.
NJ. I1,-nh Durham of dorchester is the
guest Of her cousin, Mrs. Il. {. Tayor...,
itf.I-.4l r lII OF EaIyDr : visiting
Irio,,5. ~, tllyn NTs FIbridoe Nelson,
who nas been IN for A long time. had a
shln5 ~nn,l4y uIt,rring from, which il is
fs.,ra1 .l- Min moi ,4er'yer. Miss Ethel
d E1l+r left >9fHldd3. for Irfica. \, +.
1,ihaia .le viil enter Cornell college
Gt,a wa. t,o,.,,u,,,.ni4.d AZ far as Roston
Nv, lS, fsfb..r ur i II Raker..
Pgasidfr,. F''j-r IIas5pfl was in town
NANNY and The oriartarIy conference was
LaiG in 'tb4 evanirl[l~. A cobweb party was
-,i,en bl. fbe FnWorth T,eagup Thnrsday
eeveninp Ibav had y laroe Gathering and
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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1906-09-27
Belfast GaS& Eclectic Co
Telephone Number 62-12.
TO REPUBLICANS:

We are anxious to have every
Republican in close touch, and work
ing in harmony with the Republican
National Congressional Committee il
favor of the election Of a Republican
Congress.
The Congressional campaign must
be based on the administrative ard
legislative record Of the party, and,
that being SO, Theodore Roosevelts
personality must be a central figure
and lis achievements a central
thought in the campaign.
We desire to maintain the work OF
this campaign with popular subscrip-
tons of One Dollar each from Repub-
licans. To each subscriber we will
send the Republican National Cam
paign Text Book and all documents
issued by the Committee.
Help US achieve a great victory
JAMES S. SHERMAN, Ci.2::.'::naa
P O. Box ao63, New York
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

ests of the town will pay the burden
of taxation, and the amount of each
taxpayer will be less in proportion to
carry on government.
IS THE SAVING A REAL ONE?
While the country household, in
looking over one of the big catalogues
and sending an order for $50 worth of
goods, may be able to figure out an
immediate saving of five or six dollars,
even after they have paid the freight,
there is no question as to the final out
come, if the practice is persisted in by
all the people of any particular local
ity. The home town will suffer, the
home market will fail to increase, if
it does not decrease, as will also the
value of the farm lands. Undoubtedly
the catalogue houses can sell goods
cheaper than the average country
store, for they do cash business
you send on your cash with. yorr
order. There is no risk in the cata-
logue or mail order house business.
Possibly if you arranged to do business
on the same basis with your country
merchant down with your pur-
chase-you could get almost as favor
able prices. But the country merchant
is supposed to extend credit to every
one; he has bad bills which lie never
collects and consequently must make
a greater percentage of profit on the
things he sells.
Every community which is imbued
with the spirit of building up its own
industries and of supporting it's home
town with local pride, is sure to be the
most prosperous; there can be no gain
saying this fact.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

greatest good for the greatest number,
the farms of each agricultural area
surrounding a town should support
that town to their uttermost.
KEEP THE MONEY AT HOME.
Every dollar that the farmer spends
in the town indirectly comes back to
him in the way of benefits. The town
grows, it supports better stores, more
churches, better schools to which he
can send his children, furnishes bet
ter near-at-hand markets for his prod
ucts, and finally increases the very
value OF his farm land. AS a good il
lustration, the Dry Goods Reporter as
sumes that such an agricultural town
has population of 1000, its support
coming from the country tributary to
it. The life of the town is its retail
trade. If it secures the entire purchas
ing business of the farmers, it must of
necessity grow rapidly. But Mont
gomery Ward and Co., Sears. Roebuck
and Co., and others of the enormous
mail order houses send out their great
four or five pound catalogues describ
ing everything under the sun. Suppose
that instead of spending his 5000 a
year in his home town, each farmer in
the community diverts so per cent of
his trade from his town and sends $500
a year to- the catalogue houses; it
means that half of the business of the
town is gone. On the basis of one hun
dred or one hundred and fifty square
miles of territory to support the town,
it can be estimated that there are five
hundred farmers in the district. Three
hundred dollars a year in trade from
each Of the farmers means that one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
annually is taken from the home town.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

tor all the agricultural products. So
hat the greatest factor in land value
is the nearness to good markets. 1t
becomes plain, therefore, that the bet
ter the home town can be made, the
more valuable is the farm land tribu-
tary to it. In the purely agricultural
sections, the average country town is
located in the center of from rs to $50
square miles of territory; that is the
town is supported by the trade result
ing from that area of farms. Accord
ing to federal statistics the average
farmer spends S627 year for supplies
clothing for his family, household
utensils, food that he does not grow
himself, farm implements. etc.
Now it must be evident that if plan
were to be followed looking to the
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20
MAIL ORDER BUSINESS.
ENORMOUS STRUCTURES TO BE
ERECTED BY MONTGOMERY
WARD AND COMPANY AND
OTHERS.

Suggests Question Whether Giant
Catalogue Houses are Benefit or
Detriment to the Farmer and the
Country Generally.
Chicago is to have the greatest build
ing the world ever constructed for COM
mercial purposes. 1t will have floor
space of so acres-a good sized farm.
1t is to be 10 stories high, including the
basement, and were it to be all
stretched out on one floor it would
cover 13 of the big city blocks in the
windy city. 1t will be 900 feet in length
and 270 feet wide and will be built of
steel and concrete. The cost will be
$2,500,000 The present building oc-
cupied by Montgomery Ward and Com
pany is huge affair, but is stated to
be entirely inadequate to the needs of
this enormous mail order house, and
so this new pile is to be constructed.
1t seems to be the time of big COM
merical houses in the great centers of
the country. Another big firm is to
erect building on Chicago avenue,
which will contain a million square
feet-200 feet by 800 feet; Sears, Roe
buck and Company is big Chicago
business rival of the Montgomery Ward
firm, and has just also been incorpor
ated to do business in New York, with
a capitalization of $40,000,000, paying
the State incorporation tax of $4,000.
TO BE PROUD OF.
These are fine projects, and at first
thought may make one proud of Amer
lean business institutions, but what is
the real effect of the success of these
gigantic commercial houses upon the
country's prosperity? How does their
business affect the country merchant,
the country banker, the country town
itself and in fact the country people
who are the patrons of the great mail
order houses. What creates the village,
the town, the thriving city? What
keeps it live and bustling center ra-
ther than a dead congregation of few
houses with one or two miserable
stores? 1t is the patronage and sup
port, is it not, of the surrounding coun-
try homes. Towns are butt up only
when they have support from an agri-
cultural territory, if agriculture is the
surrounding industry, which is the
case in nine out of ten instances. But
conversely, the richness of the soil
alone does not make the most valuable
farms.
THE MARKET FOR PRODUCTS.
There must be good market for the
farm product; if the farm is adjacent
to live growing town supporting ac-
tive and well-to-do-people, the market
for the farmers products will be ac-
tive and the prices good. If the town
be a dead one, he will have to turn
elsewhere to dispose of his products,
and perhaps incur heavy transporta-
ton charges in their shipment. This
fact is set forth Enthusiastically in the
last census figures which show that in
a small area of te United States, the
regions where factories abound,-a dis
trict comprising but little over 10 per
cent. of the United States-the value
of the farm lands is over half that of
all of the arabic land in the entire
country. The farms in these regions
are located close to the factories,
which afford a profitable home market
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

taking effort and constant care from
boy of this age; encourage it but do
not compel it.
He can be taught by example all of
the needs Of plant growth but his hoe
ing and wedding may be superficial
If you ask him he will allow you to dig
in his garden to loosen the soil deeper
than his strength permits. 1t is wise
to do this for there must be carrots
and cabbage to harvest or there will
be no play ground here next year.
If the boy of five has been allowed
the run of garden, if at eight he has
a garden of his own, at ten he will love
gardening and will have absorbed an
| amazing store of knowledge, and to
him may be impaired at this age in a
way and manner that will awaken the
the purest and best that is in him, the
mystery of life.
A pumpkin plant on compost heap,
sending its vigorous shoots over the
weeds, climbing where it cannot creep,
TRUSTING its snake like head through
the garden fence, is thing of wonder
to boy if he is but taught to see it,
and when its great golden blossoms
appear there is still greater wonder
unfolded.
Boys of twelve and fourteen may de-
! sert the garden for the ball field or the
fishing rod, and it is well they should,
| for the serious time of life is coming
soon and play days should be as many
and long as school and home duties
will permit But garden for boy at
this age may be greater factor in his
training for life than at any other, for
by this time the root of all evil" has
entered his soul; he has learned that
money is essential in order to procure
the many things a boy must have, and
the garden, which to this time has
been recreation field, place of Won
derful possibilities in the way of good
things to eat and pumpkins for jack-o'-
lanterns, may be a most fertile field
of revenue.
Whatever the crop the proceeds
should be wholly his own, if he has
produced the crop wholly by his own
efforts. There is but one way that he
can learn the value of money and that
| is by earning it. The wise use of
money must also be learned but that
is outside the sphere of gardening.
From address of Prof. Cranefield,
Wise. Agr. College.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20
EDUCATION
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
OMECROFTS

We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
of the Whole People of this Nation
should be Every Child in a Garden
Every Mother in a Homecroft-and In
dividual Industrial Independence for
Every Worker in a Home of his Own
on the Land" and that until he owns
such Home, the concentrated purpose
and chief inspiration to labor in the life
of every wage worker should be his
determination to Get an Acre AMI
Live ON it,
We believe that the Slums and
Tenements and Congested Centers of
population in the Cities are savagely
deteriorating social, moral and polit-
ical influence, and that great public
movement should be organized, and
the whole power of the nation and
the states eXerted for the betterment
of all the conditions of Rural Life, and
to create and upbuild Centers of So
cial and Civic Life in Country and
Suburban Towns and Villages, where
Trade and Industry can be so firmly
anchored that they cannot be drawn
into the Commercial Maelstrom that
is now steadily sucking Industry and
Humanity into the Vortex of the
Great Cities.
We believe that every Citizen in
this Country has an inherent and
Fundamental Right to an Education
which will train him to Earn Liv-
ing, and, if need be, to get his living
straight from Mother Earth; and that
he has the same right to the Opportun-
ity to have the Work to Do which will
afford him that living, and to earn not
only 6 cor Portable livelihood, but
enough more to enable him to be a
Homecrofter and to have Home Of
his Own, with ground around it
sufficient to yield him and his family
a Living from the Land as the reward
for his own labor.
We believe that the Public Domain
is the most precious heritage of the
people, and the surest safeguard the
nation has against Social Unrest Dis
turbance or Upheaval, and that the
Cause Of Humanity and the Preserva-
ton of Social Stability and of our Free
Institutions demand that the absorp-
ton of the public lands into specula-
tive private ownership, without settle
ment, be forthwith stopped; and that
the nation should create opportunities
for Homecrofters by building irriga-
ton and drainage works to reclaim
land as fast as it is needed to give
every man who wants Home on the
Land chance to get it.
We believe that, as a Nation. we
should be less absorbed with Making
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20
THE HOME GARDEN.
The Story of the Boy and His Little
Plot of Ground

The Story of the Boy and His LittIs
Plot of Ground
At the age of five every boy is by
instinct a gardener. If guided by op-
portunity, example and intelligent di-
rection he will dig, plant and develop
an interest in growing things; lacking
these the call of mother nature leads
to mud pies. Given square yard OF
mellow ground, tiny hoe and a hand
full of beans, a healthy five year-old
boy will have combination that ex-
GELS anything yet designed in nature
study"
From five to ten the world begins to
dawn. He looks up and out; he sees
and initiates, but does not reason. He
should play without hindrance. If the
square yard of ground be enlarged to
a rod, the handful of beans to a collec-
tion of seeds (the kinds for sale in the
grocery stores are best as these have
brilliantly colored pictures on the pack
ages and the boy learns thereby what
manner of thing he is to expect), this
square rod will be the play ground to
a surprising extent.
He may not plant the kinds you ex-
pect or want him to plant, as his view
point is different from yours. 1t is un-
wise to insist on any given plan. Let
this garden be his own. If it has been
entirely to carrots or cabbage let it re-
main carrots and cabbage, for they are
more to him than your choice variety
1t is unwise to expect careful pains
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20
THE COMING PEOPLE.

"Outward changes, economical and|
political, more or less marked, areI
always going on in the forms and or
ganiZations of society. But to-day oneI
can make specially strong argument
that great and radical changes are i'm
pending. No one can believe that
existing conditions will continue in a
world where all things move and
change. Waste, extravaganza, political
corruption, fierce mercantile rivalries,
colossal monopolization of wealth and
of the industrial plants of the world,
masses Of dreary poverty,-these are
natural subjects for profound, patri-
Otic and humane concern. Is not the
old social and Industrial machinery,
the competitive or wage system, show
ing signs Of breaking down beneath
it's load?
"The question is quite fair whether
any system is just that permits indi-
viduals to roll up immense fortunes as
the result of lucky speculations, or of
the rise of land values about a great
city, that permits other individuals toI
inherit almost unlimited money power.
as men once inherited duchies andI
kingdoms, while millions of working
men, with small wages, live close toI
the danger line of debt, or even of cold
and starvation, and are liable to be 7
thrown out of employment for months
at time.
"When in the face of natural wealth,
never so abundant, and forces of pro-
duction augmented indefinitely byI
science and invention, so many almost
fail to reap any benefit from the re-
sources which surely belong to theI
race, it must at least be confessed that
our present system, both of production
and of distribution, is not intelligently /
or humanely managed. Its results do +
not represent an ideal democracy. a
brotherhood of man."-From 'The 1
Coming People, by Chas. F. Dole.
1t behooves everyone who has eyes
to see and ears to hear and a brain 4
with which to think to study the tre-
mendous social problems with which 4
we are face to face to-day.
Whether they are settled right or
wrong will affect every member of the
community. No one can escape the
evils that will result from wrong +
settlement and everyone will be bene-
fitted by a right settlement.
Nothing is more important than that
we should get started right. There is
oridanon and insniration in every line
of "THE COMING PEOPLE," by
Chas. F. Dole.
In order to bring this book within
+ha reach of all. popular edition has
inst been issued by the Homecrofters
Gid of the Talisman which can be had
for % cents. postage included. Remit +
bv postal money order, express money
order or postage stamps to "THE
143 Main St,
Watertown, Mass"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

In the course of ten years, this means
one and one-half million dollars. Aver
aging the profit on this amount at
twenty per cent, it means -hat in ten
years time three hundred thousand
dollars profits are taken from the town.
Now, on the other hand, should the
farmer, instead of sending away his
money to the foreign place for goods
he requires, give all his trade to the
home town, its business would be i'm
mediately doubled, and with twice the
employment for the people. Year af-
ter year, the profits made by the mer-
chants would be retained in the town,
would seek investment in starting new
industries, and at the end of the ten
year period, instead Of town of one
thousand, there would be lively city
of from two to three thousand, and
every acre of farm land within the
trade radius of the town would be en-
hanced in value from ten to twenty
dollars.
ENRICHING THE BIG CITIES.
1t can be plainly figured out that the
individual farmer who would divert
Hall Ills ITdu6 W SulCdSO, lN0W IOTh VI
some other foreign city, in the course
of ten years would send away three
thousand dollars. If it were possible
that he could save ten per cent on this
amount, in ten years time he would
save three hundred dollars. His only
compensation would be dead home
town, poor schools, poor home mar
ket, and no increase in the value of his
real-estate holdings.
On the other hand, by giving his
patronage to the home town, even
though he must pay the merchant ten
per cent more than the foreign house
the result would be like this: On &C.
count of increase in farm values, one
hundred and sixty acres of land worth
ten dollars more per acre, sixteen hun
dred dollars; or, thirteen hundred dol.
lars better off in ten years than if he
gave half his patronage to the foreign
concern. His home town is a lively
one. all public improvements, all mod
ern conveniences, high schools, to
which he could send his children
cheaply, good churches, good roads,
and everything that can add to the COM
fort and happiness of its residents,
and those who reside near it. Not
withstanding, that the farmers land is
enhanced in value, his taxation will be
but little greater, as the business inter-
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

This book is the first of Series
that will Chronicle the Progress of the
HOMECROFT MOVEMENT
and inform all who wish to cooperate
with it how they may do so through
the formation of local Homecrofters'
Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote
Town and Village Betterment, stimu-
late. home civic pride and loyalty to
home institutions, industries and trade,
improve methods and facilities of edu-
cation in the local public schools, and
create new opportunities cat Home"
that will go far to check the drift of
trade and population to the cities.
The first Gid of the Homecrofters
has been established at Watertown,
Massachusetts. The Gildhall, Shops
and Gardens are located at 143 Main
Street, where the Garden School is
now fully organized and over one
hundred children are at work in the
Gardens. The departments for train
ing in Homecraft and Village Indus
tries are being installed. The Weavers
are already at work at the looms.
1t is not designed to build here an
isolated institution, but to make
model which can be duplicated in any
town or village in the country.
Copies of "THE FIRST BOOK OF
THE MECROFTERS" can be
obtained by sending twelve two
cent stamps with your name and
address Carefully and plainly
Written) to The Homecrofters' Gid
Of the TaIisman 143, Main St.,
WatertoWn, Massachusetts.
There is New Hope and Inspiration
for every Worker who wants a Home
of his own on the Land in the
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE
HOMECROFTERS' which is as fol-
lows:
"Peace has her victories no less re-
nowned than war;"
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

'The slums and tenements of the
great cities are social dynamite, GER
tain to explode sooner or later. The
only safeguard against such dangers
is to plant the multiplying millions of
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

our fast increasing population in in
diyidual homes on the land-home-
crofts, however small, owned by the
occupant, where every worker and his
family can enjoy individual industrial
independence. George 81. Maxwell.
Amador ledger., 1906-07-20

The FIRST BOOK 1az 1n HOMECROFTERS
HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG CONTENTS
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES ABSORBING INTEREST
The Brotherhood of Man
Charity that is Everlasting
The Secret of Nippon's Poyer
Lesson of Great Calamity
The Sign of Thought