Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-03-18

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| cents higher than it has been since
the war Haughter.) Who gets the
benefits of this reduction in the cost
Of production? 1t is not the consum-
er. 1t is evidently the creameries that
get the benefits as they have a monop-
ly in butter making, and have their
agents here lobbying for the COW tes-
ter Farmers have no time to attend
to dairying. as they are kept busy
making macadam roads for the privi-
legged class to run their modern jug
gernauts upon. daughter) These
sporting men of leisure having nearly
destroyed every living thing on earth
that is clothed in fur or feathers. and
that sport has become too tame for
them. and they seem to take supreme
delight in running down Fay seed
er." as they call a farmer. Their pas
SIGN to kill grows upon what it feeds.
@, that We had an Artenlas Ward or
Mark Twain to write book on the
Inconsistencies of the Maine Legisla-
ture. Haughter) 1t would prove b.
yond doubt that truth is stranger than
fiction and though true would OUT
rival Munchausen and be more enter
ldlHifS l1dll tilS lIulIlul ltpoi l
of Il Repubican-Pr Prohibition caucus.
ILaughter) Is it not We that we put
on the breaks before the collision
which is sure to come il we continue
to go at the break meek speed at which
we are now going.
do not intend, however. to offer a
bill to provide for the clergy but mere
ly to suggest one which will care for
that branch of the learned profession.
All animals and birds not usually used
as food may be left out of the bill.
and not be subject to the provision or
the law. Dogs though eaten some
times in sausage meat should be eX-
cluded as we already have dog-klil-
err Rats are said to be eaten by the
Chinese, therefore keep them in the
bill as a concession to the foreigner.
Skunks are said to be good eating but
they should be excluded. as the min
listers might object to being compelled
by law to exhibit themselves in Priest
Nv Robes chasing a skunk to eaten
him properly and kill him legally, Try
ing at the same time to look solemn
and dignified. The owl among BIRDS
is considered a judge. | suppose II IS
because he sits up so straight ana
looks so much wiser than he really
is and out of respect to the judges we
might put him in the bill. The crow
is sometimes eaten but chiefly by the
Democrats Qaughter), so he should pc
excluded as they hope to change thclr
manner of living very soon and swap
larders with the Republicans.
If any one desires to draw up such
a bill it need not exceed l3 sectlohs,
which is the number in the broWn-tali
moth bill which is less reasonable imam
the one proposed. In the IL articles
of the Moth Bill Commissioner OF
Agriculture" is repeated 10 times, SO
that il seems as though he were start
ing this measure for personal reasons
engendered by over valuation OF ms
office The drawer of the Moth Bill
takes especial pains to say that 1t Is
not a bounty measure, when every
body who has been careful observer
Knows in his own mind that the only
vav to get rid of the moths is to give
a State bounty on the colieclioii vi
their nests and have them burned IN
der the inspection of an ofhcer espe-
cially appointed for the purpose oy
the town officials | doubt Il the COM
missioner of agriculture, more esp
ciaIly the employees under MS dlrection
want the moths destroyed, as thaI
would put them out of commlssloh.
If the money spent on these men nao
been judiciously spent in paying
bounty to the boys. these moths could
have been kept under, unless they had
left some for seed for the next year
as they might have done, since they
are sharp and might have followed
the example of their elders Brown
tail moths are a dangerous pest. rms
army of destruction has entered the
border of Maine from an adjoining
State and it has grown to be a State
matter. If you want to keep them
from ravaging the whole State you
is useless to say Go West, young
man." for they are coming East and
this victorious army cannot be check
ed. but by the united effort of the
whole State
The Moth Bill and the Bridge Bill
and this university bill are triplets and
three of a kind designed to saddle upon
one portion of the State burdens that
belong to another. | have observed
that rakish looking craft in the dis
lance, but now they have raised the
black flag and no longer leave us in
doubt of their real intentions. Shall
we allow them to cut our threats and
despol our cargoes, or shall we uu-
timber our hidden guns and sink them
without further delay? When we dis
cuss this matter in the corridors Of
the House it is said that we are sell
fish. If it is selfish to object to thieves
taking our property, | submit we must
plead guilty
Political parties are like ships on
a dangerous ocean. They have been
lacking and filling. trying to get the
weather guage of each other and have
not observed the dark cloud in the
West that betokens a storm. We don't
know whether it will be a gentle gale
or typhoon. but whichever it is if
they don't shorten sail and put in their
reefs they will be dismasted and left
d helpless derelct on the political sea
of expediency. | don't expect to
change anyone'S mind and | thank you
for this courtesy. at the same time
wishing my constituents to know that
| still adhere to my old fashioned
Democracy. which I believe TO he the