Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-01

next door neighbor. How oft virile
manhood gives way to the gilded
dullard native born to gaze at his fell
| low with leaden scorn" Then come
with me-not to the brothel and dive
| not to the foreign born deniZens of
Packington-not to New York's east
side-but to the quiet streets of some
New England town to the home where
sobriety and industry aiding by wifely
thrift plots and struggles and plans,
by aid Of cash grocery and installment
plan, to square today and meet tomor-
rowland say if the vast influence of
the one can't hush the protest of the
other.
If the picture stopped there-small
cause for us to complain-becauSe the
necessares of the first would destroy
their very selves-but the corosion of
imitation is pervading the whole coun-
try enervatng our whole life. Like
some insidious disease is this spirit of
extra avance and this tendency to live
beyond ones means becoming the
American characteristic-The gross
example set by success compel that the
American spirit of equality to attempt
The result if unchecked no man knows
but the past experience of nations
causes grave alarm. If Christ were to
look into the hearts of men today
and Danish from the temple-the
money changers-he would find mental
arithmetic and stock quotations rather
than the gospel the subject of thought
there would be some empty pews.
Closely allied is a second danger
Capitalization of political power.
Bosses in a party begets individual
control in the government. And in this
government of checks and balances
none of the coordinate branches
should for an instant be permitted to
usurp the functions of the other.
We of today owe double duty to
these men for whom the nation sets
apart May 30th-Word. and song and
story will perpctuate their memory in
the hearts of a grateful nation-and
that will be a monument of love more
cndearing than bronZe-but we must
see to it that the material things OF
life are not forgottcn-"their youth of
labor has earned an age of casc'-not
by small quarterly pension-not in the
sense of charity-but in justice every
veterans of the sons of Revolution
possessed of an honorable discharge
whether well. and strong or weak and
MANNED should be of right entitled to
an annual stipend sufficient for digni-
fled and appropriate support.
That splendid organization the Sons
of Veterans should in every way re-
ceive the cordial and enthusiastic en-
enlargement it so well merits--for in
the sons of these sires we know the
blood will be ever ready if occasion
calls And let us-lcarning the lesson
of Sacrificc-bc true to those funda-
mental tencts of free governments
ready to thWart attack-Watchful to
check abuscs-To you who 50 splendid
~ won while you wot not Of it free
domS battle for the world we say
We would rather have been such a
man and go down to the dreamiess
silence of the tongueless dust than to
have been that imperial representation
of force and murder-NapOleon Bona
parte"-And standing with you tonight
under that flag whose integrity you
vindicated-aS you with lowered heads
in the words of Names great day
"Morituri Salutamus"-wc who are
about to die salute you've assume
your burden and say-we who are to
live will defend you.