Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-03-12

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| away. Moosehead Lake is 1925 feet
above the tide-water at Augusta, less
| than l01 miles away. The Penobscot
ard st. John Rivers rising Al about
! the same elevation as the latter, nave
but little longer run before their wa
| tefs drop into the sea- Now compare
these distances ard these elevations
| with the waters OF the Mississippi
/ River and the St Lawrence River,
| which cross hall a Continent. IL either
direction with a little more than half
| tie drop which these short rivers Of
Maine nave. and YOU will get some
idea of the incstimable value OF our
water power.
1t is not necessary for me to call
| your attention here in Portland To
| the value Of cur summer business. be
+ cause You realize what Il great source
OF revenue il is TO you. IN the same
way. its benefits are received to orr
remetest rural districts There is
/ hardly lake in the State, from which
! the people who live in it's nefshbor-
| hood do not derive large financial aid
! Of summer tourists from out of the
] State. In my own county. in one town,
| are located five summer schools. with
! over three hundred young people in
attendance. Il dozen large ard small
| hotels ana between TWO and three
| hundred small cottages Twenty years
| ago. IN trying Ia interest our people
| in the development Of our inland fish
and game. l made what was consider
| ef. a very wild statement, with regard
10 our inland lakes, to wit; that an
acre of water was worth more than an
acre Of land; but l can now cite sev-
eeal instances where the taxes of
property owned wholly by non-resi-
dents upon the border Of lakes. which
is useless for any other purposes eX-
cept for cottages and hotels, is paying
To the town nearly as much tax as the
resident land owners. And the steady
employment at increased wages Of the
inhabitants of these localities, both
men and women. and The handy mar
, ket for all products Of the farm, has
already verified this statement. So
great has been the income from this
summer business during the past
wears and so widely distributed
through our State that our people
have known nothing or hard times.
except what they have read about in
the papers
Now, YOU may think I am egotisti-
cal about our State but this is the
condition of things in the country we
live in. This is the territory and these
are the people in whose government
We are interested, and the Republican
party tn which We belong has been
responsible for The kind of Govern
ment these people have had for the
last 50 Years, prior to 1911, with the
interruption of one year, and some of
us believe that this government has
been honest and efficient; and I per-
sonailN believe that it can be demon
strated to any impartial and unpre-
JUDGED mind that it has been rs good
q government ana as honest = gov
eminent. exemplfying in the highest
degree the greatest good for the great
est number. that the same number of
people ever enjoyed at any time, at
any place On the civilized globe.
Mr.. Haines dealt at length with the
financial conditions of our State and
the silly pretensions OF the Demo-
cratic leaders Sc6hcerning what they
term economy He also brought out
in terse sentences the logic Of the
good roads movement and what it
means to city as well as country. He
closed with:
THE Democratic party is now
squarely placed on the side of license,
and the Republican party, which has
stood for 80 years. for prohibition, has
the finest chance in its history to fight
the evil of the licensed saloon. I vel
come the issue, and feel confident that
we are to win, not only because the
people have declared for IT, but be-
cause it is right. The world is NOV
ing forward in all questions Of econ
omics and those things which make
for better manhood; and any party or
man that stands for anything but the
moral forces in the year 1872 is doomed
to defeat
Gentlemen, the history of the Re-
publican party is one of progress. and
the government YOU enjoy to-day is
principally the result of its work But
its best history has not yet been writ
ten. II stands now and ever Will
stand for the economic welfare and
moral uplift of our people. We have
two great men vieing with each other
for its leadership. 1t matters little
which wins. Both stand for the same
great principles of the equal rights of
man, and no administration ia the
history of the country stands out
more prominently for the eXemplfi-
cation Of these principles than that of
President Taft. He has worked out
the problems which were placed be
fore him by Roosevelt and no other
man could have given better results.
but the work is not yet completed, and
it matters little to my mind which of
these two great chieftaips carry 1t or.
We are still in the fight against the
common foe-the Democratic party,
which has always been the reaction
airy stand-pat party in the nation.
Things are moving quicker to-day
than heretofore. The old-fashioned
clock which stands in the corner with
it's long pendulum. said slowly Take
your time take your time. take your
' time" The little brass clock on the
mantle now saws with n quick click,
y THAT