Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-08-30

of the Republican party to aid the
towns to carry their burdens
In 1882 the State bonded debt was
$6,O0O,O 900.
Under Republican administrations this
has been reduced to something like $685.
600 and the interest charges have been
enormously reduced. We are saving on
the old interest account now nearly one
half of the State debt.
Democrats are critcSing our expendi-
lures on bridges and highways. The
Democrats have always been kickers. In
1882 they appropriated $3.50 for State roads
In 1910 it is more than $339G00.
On the common schools has been the
same enormous increase over the Plais-
ted expenditure for that purpose in
1882.
In our common schools we get longer
terms for our girls and boys. will not
say the teachers are better. We had
good teachers in the old days. but we
now pay our teachers better wages
and that is right Applause all over
the halD.
In 1882 they they paid out $4,000 for the
Industrial School for Girls. where way
ward maidens are converted into good
wives and helpers of society. We Repub-
licans this year spend $4,000 for this
school for girls and who would cut it
down?
In 1882 they spent $4,000 on our old sol
ders. Republicans this year spend $780,
COO. We give this to them not in charity.
but as their right Some of it goes to
prevent old soldiers and their widows
from filling poupers' graves. Would the
Democratic candidate for Governor cut
out this money from the soldiers fund?
In 1882 the railroads of the State paid
Maine $4,000. Today they are paying
s175,000 and the freight rates and passen-
ger charges are lower than they were in
1882.
For charities and benevolence in 1852
the State expended sl3,5OO. In 1910 Gov.
Fernalds administration will spend $13o-
900.
From Eagle Lake to Kittery are such
institutions as the Maine General. the
Central Maine, the Eastern Maine hospi-
tails. the Children's Home and Children's
hospitals and Children's Aid Society, the
Healey hospital and that of the Holy In
nocents and the institution of the Daugh
tiers of Wisdom and many more-4O of
them scattered throughout our State
where the sick and the suffering may be
cured now. thanks to the increased
science of the brain and skill of the
knife.
Would the Waterville paper or Senator
Pattangall or the Democratic candidate
for Governor cut out the States appro-
priatiOns to relieve these unfortunates Of
whom you and may any day be one?
In 1882 it was impossible for the sick
and the MANNED or deformed to secure
for millions the aid they now get free
if they have no money to pay.
Moreover. these contributions by the
State simply supplement the gifts of
wealthy men and women who have al
ready out of the goodness Of their hearts
founded these Institutions Of benevo-
lence. and these philanthropists are con-
tinuing year after year to add their gifts
to this aid of Maine
In a leading Democratic newspaper re-
Gently the advice was editorially given
to the men of Maine, Let every voter
ask himself what do I get out of the
hospital end of Republicanism?
Thank Cod the judge exclaimed.
many voter is able today to say I get
nothing!" But who can tell when this
voter will become disa bled because sud
denly MANNED or sick?"
Judge Powers express the hope that for
the decency of humanity that this news
papers opinion of the hospital end of
Republicanism'' was not shared by many
voters of Democracy.
The burdens of State taxation were be-
ing equalized the State collected much
of the money to act simply as disburs-
ing agent and see that the poorer commu-
mites were given somewhere near as good
an opportunity as the cities and more
fortunate localities in educating their
children and thus enrichng the State Of
Maine
The State had only lately removed the
burden of the pauper insane from the
taxpayers of the towns and assumed the
load both in the interests of the poor in
sane and the towns.
Would the Democratic candidate for
Governor say he would cut out the ap-
preparation for the insane?
Criticism had been made by Democrats
Of the authorities in charge of certain
beneficiary institutions of the State bor-
rowing money-upon their personal liabil-
ity alone-to tide over their institutions
until the money came in from the Cfafa