Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-14

~ boast of that is not common to all
mankind? Where did you procure it?
That is a market which you cannot cor
ner as you might the wheat supply of
the world. My fair at its close received
the praise of 30 per cent. of all the peo-
Pile Ct know no best people'O, and the
last words of DR.. Chester Pike of Wind
sor, VT, were:
"The judges who have ofiiciated in this
stand, the horse owners whose horses
have taken part in this August meeting
and the thousands of visitors represent
/ ing prominent business and professional
men from all New England states and
Canada unite in declaring this the most
successful. the cleanest and the best-han-
died race meet ever given in Maine"
Who is DIR. Pike? Meet him and see
how small you feel The curbstone cur
may bark at the lion. but will not dis
| turb him. though the sewer rats may
take alarm and scamper to cover.
You appear to have felt that you had
over-reached the goal of common decen-
ey in your accusations against me and
mercifully supplicate your readers not to
blame Hanks too much but rather to
| place the brunt of the blame on the city,
| county or state officials In doing this
YOU make a noise like a cheap politician
disappointed In your aspirations Let me
say to you: Hanks assumes the entire
responsibility, for no one else has shaped
the course which l pursued, and now let
all the faults committed and all the err
! rers be mine.
| But the unkindest words of all were
For Hanks is after the money" If you
| ba1 ctc
point you would not at least have been
the object of dersive laughter which
you have When in the name of all that
! is good has Hanks been after the money?
Certainly not when the bills contracted
in entertaining the last convention of the
Y NJ. C. A. boys were unable to be met
| and Hanks came down with the funds
for settlement. Surely not when at each
Christmas and Thanksgiving he places
in the hands of w. P. Perry a sum never
less than $40 to be used in gladdening
the hearts of unfortunates with instruc-
tons that the parties served are not to
know from whence the gladness came, or
| Hanks to know whose hearts were glad
dened. Not when on a Christmas night
he has noted the pinched face of poor
child gazing at doll in a window dis
! play anu, ppINlOl VI MS lllIl-
tied means with which he intended the
| purchase of presents for his own chill
dren, has placed that doll in the hands of
| the child 1t Is true that this child may
not have been of the best people," but
| it had a soul and the best people, can
not boast of more. Certainly Hanks is
not after the money when he meets as he
| will (and as you would noD, the bills
|
| ing to upwards of $1,000 and for which he
| is no more responsible, legally or moral
| ly, than you, Mr., Taxpayer" are for
your narroWness of spirit
The hands that pen these lines may not
be as smooth as yours, but they earn an
honest though simple living for eight hui
| man beings whom / love. and that same
| hand is most fittingly conditioned by in
cessant labor to protect the name of
Hanks from an army of malgners like
yourself. My diction may not bear the
elegance and smoothness of one who pre-
sumes to divide citizens of Augusta into
classes, but you will readily understand
what | wish to impart. | may not boast
of a moral equipment that will meet the
critical measure of your false standards.
| but God and not you shall be the final
| Judge 1t is understood that in the fu-
ture | shall find it incoINenient. owing to
pressing calls upon my time in business
lines, to give even passing thought to
the superficial sayings of one who, shell
tered by the veil of his own cowardice
and self-conceft, spits venom into space.
TO every yelpsof the coyote the night
ingale sings a thousand songs; to every
storm tossed craft a hundred sails sweep
stately DER the main; to every vicious
thought score of finest sentiments find
Judgement in the human breast While
this earth may appear far too rude for
very few souls selected from the best
people" yet it answers we'll the require
ments of the masses and some centuries
ago manager was deemed a fitting rest
ing place for One as pure, perhaps, as
my accuser.
Some 1890 years ago such as you were
employed in pressing the-crown of thorns
upon the brow of Goodness, but they did
not wear a mask. Hypocrita that you
are, disclose your identity.
l.. ". HANKS.
Mrs j. a. Folsom and son Norman