Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-02-19

governor TO address several hundred
probable governors. but / know = YOU
| will be lenient with me. 1t is one of
the most valuable and splendid Legal
cies that come to me from nv father
and that is going to YOU from your
| fathers but which | sometimes fear
is being appreciated less and less bv
each succeeding generation, this al
most inestimable privilege of every
youth 10 indulge his aspiration for
tha highest and best that his country
| has 10 be<toW.
The humblest lad here. no matter
how cheapiy he may be clothed. how
little his good parents may be able to
do for him, how lonesome the few
Coins in his pockets may be. has Just
as n:any rights AS any other lad. And
when / speak OF rights ! don't want
you to contound the word with Ii
c1nsc because this good country of
ours gives us such multitude of
privileges that many people seem to
have ,hc idea that they should not be
restrained in any direction BY laws
Now this is a most erroneous position.
ard want every boy here to bear that
distinction in mind. There are
that those who have gone before MS
have found by long. and often times
hard, experience, that a course con-
trary to the teachings Of was also
inconsistent with good citizenship.
That is. that without these restrain
ing laws many, who otherwise would
have been credltable citizens, became
dishonest, Incorporate, reckless, and
,<~l.A
that unless you, who l am sure. do
not require to be restrained by laws,
that you may become good citizens,
not only passively submit to but ac-
lively support the laws that expert
ence has shown to produce the best
general results-the best people-then
in government such as ours, where
the people make the laws, We have no
hope of attaining to the better things
that all right thinking persons are al
ways hoping for.
Boys of Maine, I ask you to care
fully consider these things, because
only few years hence you must act
for yourselves and for those who fol-
low you.
Do not our good laws, our hundreds
Of schoolhouses, our asylums and
homes for homeless children, our
great hospitals for the siclx in mind
and body. our scores of public Ii
braries filled with good books. and
many other beneficial things that we
are enjoying every day, show that
somebody has been at work in the
past. at great expenditure of time
and money. to make our State worthy
of being the home of the sort of peo-
pie that you like to associate with.
and that are honored and respected
the world over?
| IL Will be your duty, and | have no
doubt it will be your pleasure and in
Icllnatlon, IN the years that are COM
ing to carry the Pine Tree State for
ward to better and better things. al
ways higher and higher. and that our
inspiring motto will never be any,
Where else than just where it was de-
signed always to be, in the lead
America was then sung and greet
lhSs from the city followed by Hon.
Iro5y johnson, Mayor of Augusta.
Mayor johnson commended conven-
tlGhs or this sort because they brought
the boys shoulder to shoulder
ana emphasized the spirit OF
cooperation. Melvin S. Holway.
chairman of the local committee
Of arrangements welcomed the con-
ference in behalf Of the business mon
| of Augusta. The work of nreparine
for the convention ne said, was a labor
OF love. for which they We're amply
| repaid He spoke of the hcroisn1
shown by Donald Mcmillan on the
PearV expedition and alluded to his
placing beside the American flag the
banner of the club TO which he belong
ed as 4 boy. The instance OF Com
marder Peary placing the banner of
the fraternity to which he belonged in
college beside the national flag at the
North Pole was also mentioned as an
instance of the influence of his youth
full club upon the hardy explorer.
Mr.. Rolway concluded by wishing the
delegates fine time during every
| moment Of their stay in the city
Greetings from the church were pre-
sented by Rev. Henry Z. Dunnack,
pastor of the Green Street Methodist
church. who spoke as follows:
| Mr.. POSTMASTER:
| 1.-THE duty given me this evening is
altogether pleasant one, that of
| speaking the welcome of the churches
of this city to the Maine boys, who
are our guests tonight. Your coming
| has created some excitement and no
little anticipation among a very large
and popular class of young people Of
our city. We believe by your looks they
will not be disappointed,
I'VE are glad for your coming and
our welcome is whole hearted because
we believe in the powers and oppor-
tunities of youth. We love the soft,
rich tones of an Old violin and the mel
low peal of bells that have chimed for
| 100 years, but not as we love the ac-
cents of an old mans gracious speech
We love old pictures that time has
toned to a beauty beyond the touch Of
\ grace and art but not as we love an
old mans face. every line of which is
| history and every smile of which Is
poem. We love to look upon the
shaggy top of an old oak with hun
died tempests in it's fibre. but not as
we love to look on the form of that
| grand Old man, who through the tolls
and struggles of the years had come
to wear that hoary head, which is
crown of glory because found in the