Daily Kennebec journal., 1914-03-02
GOV. HAINES IS SPEAKER
BEFORE A RECORD.BREAK|NC
MEETING OF REPUBLICANS
SATURDAY AT WATERv|LLE

pie of the State of Maine he stated
that the people of this State had al
ways sood for a thrift economy. pru-
dence and conservatism and that above
al it was their nature to keep out OF
debt and stay out. As an example of
this he declared that at the close OF
the Civil War this State was burden
ed with debt of over SIS, 900 and
that within a few years that debt had
been entirely done away with and that
at present the State was practically
out of debt, Notwithstanding the fact
tnat three mills were given for he sup
port of the schools of the State. In adj
dition to this, he brought to the notice
of the meeting that the tax rate had
been cut down from five mills in 1915
TO Az in 1914. He spoke of the cor
poration tax which nets the state
about two million a year and the pres
ent system of improving the roads,
$4,000 miles of which are being repair
ed annually under the supervision of
the State and that all this is being
done without increasing the State
taxes or mourning additional debt.
ments affect more than 60 thousand
farmers and this is all~being paid for
by wise use and expenditure of the
income derived from the automobile
tax Another indication of the thrift
ness and economic character of the
people is the increase in the savings
banks and trust companies of over
$4,000, 900 during a period which had
been one of the hardest Of hard times
He declared that under the standards
of that party which for the so years
of its supremacy has stood for, ad-
voeated and maintained economy,
thrift and saving, the State has -four
lshed and prospered and that it was
the most earnest wish of the party
that it should continue to do so.
Gov. Haines declared that man
was not a member of the Republican
party because he wanted or expected
to get a job or for the sake of a few
dollars. People who own property ex-
pect and want to pay taxes. The
privileges derived from the payment
of taxes are many and exceed by
far the mere cost in dollars and cents.
man is Republican because he
believes in the principles of right and
justice which that party represents
and stands for. 1t is a principle of
that party that for every dollar ex-
pended on behalf of the taxpayers of
community the citizens of that COM
munity Shall receive a dollars worth
of Valne and net 20, 10 or 90 cents on
that dollar. And the people of Water
vile don receive, declared the speak
er, even so cents on the dollar when
the dollar is being spent for the cart
ing away of snow on a snowy day
from street where not more than
three or four people pass in an entire
day. We do not complain because we
have to pay taxes but we do and
should complain when we receive only
30 or 40 cents on a dollar 1t is the
duty of every taxpayer to know where
his money goes and if that money
goes for shoveling snow on a snowy
day you can't use it for things which
are more in the nature of necessities.
such as roads and highways when the
summer comes and the time is suited
for such work. One of the peculiar
things about the present administra-
tion in this city. said the Governor is
that they find it necessary to have a
United States Senator come from
Washington to explain to the mem bers
of their own party what they have
done with the funds intrusted to them
as executors of the city's business 1t
appears that they are more anxious
to win the election than to put the
city of Wateryille on an economic and
paying basis. The Republican party
has always stood for an economic and
enterprising administration and above
thrift in the expending Of the city's
money, as in the State the party stands
for clean, honest, upright and in
telligent government based on laws
and not on the dictates of the political
bosses and ward heelers." The House
broke into "a storm of applause as the
Governor concluded and the meeting
closed with prolonged cheering for the
Governor and the principles of the
party