The Republican journal., 1907-05-02

On calling to order again the follow
ing address of welcome was given by
NJ. j. Dow:
Worthy Master Sisters and Brothers
1t is with pleasure that | have ac
cepted the invitation to give TIE adj
dress of welcome at this time 1t is &
pleasure to me for various reasons
which | am free to confess. In the
first place, | am more than willing to
do this because of the assistance it may
be to the local grange, of which was a
charter member which fact gives me a
membership of more than thirty years
standing in the Order of Patrons OF
Husbandry. l am glad to do this be-
cause | am proud to become repre-
sentative upon this occasion in gen.
eral way of the town of my nativity,
and in which | have during all the
years of my life held legal residence,
whose best interests have ever been
Identical with my own, of whose cltl.
zenship l am proud of being an integral
part. and whose wishes l am only too
glad to champion. 1t is also pleasure
because | was selected by the members
of Waldo Pomona Grange to perform
this duty upon this present suspicious
occasion.
My feelings, perhaps, are similar to
those of the little girl who was being
twitted by her companions OF being
only an adopted child. Well. she said,
anyway my papa and mamma Just pick
ed me out, while yours had to take you
lust as you came. And so l consider 1t
a compliment that, from among the
many able members of Harvest Home
hnn 1llR or
for this purpose.
1t also gives me pleasure because of
the class of people we officially well
come here today-a class which repre-
sents the best element of the citizen
ship of the county of Waldo, and of the
State of Maine. A body of people who
are rugged, strong, honest, intelligent
and who are imbued with an intense
desire to advance the best interests OF
the home, OF the community and OF the
State. No higher type of ideal citizen
ship exists in the world today than the
intelligent. well educated, patriotic
women of New England as represent
ed in our own State and county. They
are men who control their homes and
their business, their social and their
church relations, their political atfllla-
tions and the making of all public laws;
the decision of all public questions III
general, with no power which can over
ride their decisions of judgment IN the
form of the free untrammelled ballot;
representative of the highest type of
the typical freeman, amendable only to
the principles of Justice and right as
represented in edicts of the laws which
have governed all republics in the gen.
erations which have preceded our own.
No other class of laborlng men the
world over are so absolutely IN control
of their own personal and community
affairs as those who are represented
here today. Therefore, it is great
pleasure to welcome to our Grange, to
our village, and to our town, the repre-
sentative body which we meet here up
on this occasion.
1t is pleasure to meet and to greet
you i'll social way to enjoy the aSso-
Citations by which we are surrounded,
to indulge in the joys of good fellow
ship, to renew old friendships and to
form others which may perchance be
broken only when we shall have put on
Immortality, and have passed forever
from the ken of mortal sight. Friend
ship, created by the social amenities
and strengthened by pleasant associa-
ton, is the cement that binds us to-
gether in brotherly love, and which en-
ables us to unite and concentrate our
efforts for the advancement OF any
worthy object in which we may be mu-
tually interested. The social features
of the occasion, then, exclusive of the
personal qualification which it may
afford us, are of sufficient value to COM