Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-06-28

We are at present in a period of DO
litical unrest
This rebeious spirit of the people
is an outgrowth of the government
itself. The standard of government
and the standard of citizenship have
benn out of balance The former will
tend to raise the latter because citi-
zenship. like all other products of hu-
man effort, conforms to the law of
supply and demand
Our responsibilities as citizens will
be increased as the nation grows old
er. The citizenship of tomorrow will
be greater than that of today because
the problems of the government will
be greater.
Carrie Ray took fer her subject The
New South" TO all Americans the
story of the South is a romance. We
delight in musing over those expan-
sive plantations whose splendors of
propciety have been destroyed by
raging battles. We rejoice in knowing,
that by a spirit of indomitabe perse-
verence our soldier in gray has con-
structed something more powerful
than he had ever hoped-The New
South.
Where once the cannon roared we
now see thriving farms or factories,
Here. are forests. rowing herds or
ruarries. there, fisheries. mines or
wells. In short. like bees buzzing
midst fragrant flowers is our new In
dusirial South with her manifold re
sources.
But what of her people? Cavlier.
poor white. and slave are alike i'm
PEELED by the impetus of a new de-
mocracy. Realizing that all men are
created equal they leave their prob
lens to brotherly love and hopeful
loyalty.
With this thrill of new life arises
for them the vision of future happi-
ness, wealth and honor. These, yes
all these, fair South are thine. The
sun by day nor the moon by night
shall ride through brighter realms
than Southern skies, for He who gave
thee hope in darker days shall be thy
strength in days to come.
'"The Poets Voice" was the subject
taken by Walter J. Graham. The
highly developed mind of the poet is
! like delicate, sensitive plate that
catches and records all the varing in
huences which play about it. His soul
is responsive to the SenuouS life and
to the Spiritual. A significant fact.
however. is that among all the many
agencies for good and ill, that sum-
mon him, the dominant influence of
the poet is far more often found on
the side of progress hope and human
emancipation than in the rank of re-
action and despair. The poet is the
Interpreter of civilization.
If the roll of those nations that have
been truly great were called. we
would find the spirit of liberty doml-
nant in the poetry of some important
period. This was true in Greece, Ger
many, France, England and our own
America. The poet has been the first
to speak the message for the nation.
From his home in the ETHEREAL
heights. the poet halls the advancing
cantures-a prophet and pioneer
Today, he breaks dim path through
the wilderness of thought where the
highway ran before: tomorrow
When the race comes toiling on
That voice of wonder will be gone
Be heard on higher peak afar.
Moved upward with the moving star.
Mary c. Waldron discussed the
merits of "Diaz of Mexico" Poririo
Diaz. president of Mexico. is the
greatest man living in America. He
Is in the thrtieth year of his presl-
dency- man of eighty years, OF
magnificent physique and powerful
mind. He served his country faithful
II. as a soldier of execution, ability,
bravery. When the country. alter the
war, needed a man at its helm. DlaZ
was ready. He has perpetuated the
separation of church and state ana
brought propriety to bankrupt ma
ton. He has formed an army OF the
first ORDER and turned the bandits in
TO federal cavalry, One of his most
mportant works is the organization
of n universal school system Mexico
has been nodded into a peace respect
ing nation by this quiet. iron-branded
man who is loved by every Mexican
He has prepared a people to perpetu-
ate his nation,
Robert NJ. Pierce developed indus
trial Strife" The Industrial world IS
at war not on the field of battle but
| in the shops and factories the silent
| ceaseless strife of competition.
1--WE must get all we can out of the
other and give no more than we
must" is the motto alike of employers
and labor organizations. Without at
tempting to justify either capital or
labor, he carried out an interesting
discussion of the stupidity of an IN
dustrial system based on war.
He then suggested the only remedy
for the situation This can come
about and the strife be ended only by
a change in the foundation principle
of our industrial life. The world does
not settle many of its great industrial
| questions, it outgrows them Two
| Thousand years ago the Great Recon-
c;Ier said Thou shalt love thy neigh
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