Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-04-13

land brought large returns out of thel
ltoil These are the men that !, poo
little j. am tn address and tell of thu
"Board of Trade and How tp Make L
/ iGo."
Why. gentlemen. were it not for The
Iarray ~ talent. impatient to show it
self in the broad minds of my hrethref
who are to follow in the magnificent
flow OF cloaurnce in the speechmakine
los the evening. i should feel like thc
boy who fen out Of bed. When his
mother asked him how it happened. h
said, Because he laid too near where
The went in" But to the subject:
Il is said the first thing toward
Having rabbit stew is to get the rab-
lb!t": then of course other ingredients
Hollow in the make up, and last Of all
comes the enthusiasm. which is the
ipush under the pam the fire that makes
Things steam up To the boiling point;
Ithcn your rabbit is worth whole lot
lmore than when hi was simply mop
ping around on four feet, only dis
iturbcd by occasional leaps and bounds.
| lHallowcI has her Beard of Trade 1t
lis oficcred by good men and true.
These are your rabbits but to make 1t
go to the boiling point other in
gradients are necessary: and these
must he found in the men of the town;
wide awake men, professional men.
tfadcsmCn. working men. men who
have retired and busy business men:
the buster man is the more he is
needed as a part of the Board OF
Trade. asked 4 business man few
days ago why he was not member of
the board Of trade and his reply was
that he vas too busy. that when night
came he was tried out and that he had
to give time to think for the next day.
land the cares of business made it a
Veritable dogs life: and that was
|about all he could think of. | got in Il
quotation from David Halum on that
fellow. David Harum says. a rca-
sonable amount of fleas is good Tor Il
dog; they keep him from brooain' ON
bein' a dog" So if any here feel that
way, take on another care or t~o, join
the Board of Trade ami get out Of the
old rut and help bring some other
business to town, and if need be. be
come an investor in the concern and n
director in the company.
Another way to make the Board Of
/ EdNt 20 IL u t5tl III ON tilt 'NIi-
The man With the push is the man
who wins in the struggle for existence,
and for the Almighty Dollar. When
you hear someone say that so-and-so
has the push, it is but Il snort way of
saying that he has the enthusiasm, the
whereWithal within himself that Il axes
him energetic and ambitious to achieve
success. Opposite to this we hear
some person say that such and such Il
man has the pull" Pull, so far as
great accomplishments are concerned,
is meaningless word to me. The
man who gets out of bed in the morn
ing with a sigh and groan, simply be-
cause he must in order to earn his
breakfast, his dinner and his supper,
and little to wear, has the pull
but II is the pull OF root hog or die
The heights of great men or great in
StitutionS, were never reached or kept
simply through pull. Ii YOU wish to
make things go, you have got to push.
and push hard. Too many men are
satisfied to pull, and are regardless
how they pull Many pull backward
instead of forward. a little while ago.
saw a team of horses stalled in the
mud with a wagon in which there was
about wheelbarrow- full of dirt.
Both the horses were pulling, but they
remained 1T standstill all the same
because one was pulling in one Girec-
tion and the other in another Several
men got behind the wagon and gave it
o push. and on she went. OF that pair
the horse that pulled the wrong way
was drowned in the Kennebec a few
months later. and ! heard the owner
say, 1T was the best place for him.
\ funeral Of pullers only. is a happy
vent in some cities where | have been
Attendance HDon every meeting, So
far ;ts in your power lies, is another
Nay - make n board of trade go. The
re"t costly watch ever made is value
less ii ii single tiny cog is out of place
The best men YOU put into Office the
Len who from their own brains have
accomplished much for themselves,
when it comes to running Il board of
trade, cannot run it without YOU. In
Your city QBath) by the sea, great
ships are being built. Master minds
in their art lay the keel and go on
tlhouSi2. thasWGfK IL completion and
IfaGnching; but it needs what we
sometimes call the common seaman"
the engineer. the man to shovel in the
coal and men of other kind as we'll as
the trained pilot on the bridge" to
make that mighty vessel go and plow
its way through the tracllless deep in
order to reach the port on the other
side of the Atlantic.
The old saying is, Money makes the
mare 60" So money is needed to
make the board OF trade go. For the
proof of this, We need not go far to
seek. We have cities to the front of
us. cities To the back OF us, cities to
the right of US and cities to the left of
us, all of which have boards of trade,
worthy the name. They have put
their money into enterprises and in
vited manufacturers to locate granting
| them certain franchises, and are get
ting large returns in property values
and other resources for the outlay.
Ones thought goes on in an effort to
tell of board of trade, and how to
make it go. The limit can scarcely
be reached: but | must thank You for
your attention and quit