Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-02-28

travelling board of trade, who by the
very nature of their occupation, are
real boosters of Maine industry and
business / thoroughly believe that
the organization in the State contains
a greater number of intensely and
genuinely loyal citizens Who boost
Maine every day in the year. Next
only to the newspapers. to the travel
ing men must we look to the success
of this movement In the future. They
will carry an interchange of indus
trious stimulus from the business men
of Cumberland to the farming princes
of Aroostook. They are the connect
| ing link between their customers and
| the great commercial houses of Bos-
| ton and New York. These men talk
| up Maine everywhere they go. They
| set an example for every man and
woman interested in this movement.
| Let's all talk up Maine.
! In every great center of population
] there is a State of Maine Society
which meets once a year to talk over
old times and the old farm on the hill.
| Maine has graduated the most won
| derful body of men this country has
| ever seen. They have gone all over
| the nation, to make the laws and de-
| velop their adopted states. Their
| loyalty and love is great. Our great
est export Is men, potatoes, and long
| spruce lumber The first thing
which this organization has to do is to
| harness this Maine alumni in Boston
| New York, Chicago and San Fran
cisco. Whenever the Sons of Maine
have meeting or a banquet. send
| live wire to tell them what we are DO
ing and what they can do to help.
I'VE need an export duty on men
Maine needs every bit of her man sup
| ply. The first object of this organi
zation should be to make work, and
offer fields of success to the young
men, so that they will remain here and
give Maine the benefit of their
strength and brains.
"Other speakers have eloquentls
! described our natural resources, our
lakes and mountains and unrtvaled
scenery. The world calls Maine the
| Switzerland of America, the play
ground of the nation, and the sports
mans para disc, but we should not be
satisfied with that reputation.
Il would rather have the nation
| think of Maine as the workingnan
paradise where the best class of labor
can be found, and where men whe
work with their hands may IND com
Portable homes, economical living ano
good schools. Labor troubles are the
| greatest curse of industry. Grea'
corporations are moving to our Maine
villages to avoid the almost anarchy
of the eongested industrial centers
Our cold. vigorous climate is not con-
ducive to the hot blood and passion
ate anger of class warfare. We have
no idle rich. or class distinctions III
Maine. Labor and capital live nelsh.
bors and are fellow citizens ant
friends here.
Our organization must tell ths
| manufacturers what these faciiities
are. 1t should be a clearing house OF
advertising for every section OF ths
state. Maine apples should be better
known than Oregon apples, because
they are better. This work has beer
too great and too costly for any one
board of trade or even our state
board. but with every organization
having the welfare and uplift of tnt
people of Maine at heart, behind tins
movement, l verify believe that we ar'
starting today a boost such as she na'
never experienced"