The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-09-02

oOm ana devotion to worthy cause.
standing by ready to witness the crosses
and to write for them the names of any
who lacked the attainment of chirogra.
ply, because Of lack of years, not of
opportunities for schooling. Thu Dale
is no such place as that. The Dale has
free public schools, and fine ones too
The names follow:
F. +: Phillips, Pres, Q. w. Ripley,
Sec, Hon. L. G. Morse, Liberty. H. F.
Appleton, NJ. J. Prescott TN Mrs. rs. JOIN JOIN
Esancy, Elnora Hartman, Hervey Jack.
son, Franklin Adams, Sadie ], Adams.
Cora S. Fogg, Eva N Ripley, Ruth M.
Colby, Irlene l.. Esancy, Hattie M.
Esancy, Helen A. Colby, Mercie Cunning
ham, Hazel M. Adams, Mary E. Adams,
Ernest I. Adams, J. A. Barlow, Mrs. L.
c. Morse. Liberty, Pearl Norwood, Irwin
| Norwood, Everett Norwood, Carrie Jack
son, Carl Fogg, Arnold Davis, Norman
Davis, ROBBIE Jackson, Harold Gilman,
So. Braintree, Mass, Elmer C. Colby,
G. A. Sprague. Allen K. Colby, Harold
W. Eastman, Laurence Oxton, George
| p. Colby, Tracy E. Hartman, Everett
Morse, Roy Cunningham, Elbridge Cum
nlngham, C. S. Adams, Gertrude E.
Esancy, Mrs. Arthur Esancy, Addie
Warren, Julia Robinson. Edna Moody,
Marcia Moody, Nettie Gross, Mrs. L. W.
Howe, Mrs. Edith F. Gross, Bertha A.
Dinslow, Minerva Conner, Mrs. M. A.
Conner, Mrs. Chester M. Howes, Tryon,
n. c., Mrs. Ernest A. Davis and family,
Mrs. Sarah A. Bryant, C. C. Randall,
Mrs. c. c. Randall, Ethel Holbrook, J.
=. Adams, Isaac Sprague, Dorchester,
Mass, Gertrude Towle, Lynn, Mass,
Minnie A: Sprague, Mile Chapman,
Mollie Fuller, Camden, Mrs. C. E. Gil
man, South Bralntree, Mass, Mrs. E. M.
Clark, Camden. Me-. c. M. Howes, Lib
erty, Fred A. Ramsay, Greta V. Davis,
Media, Pa, e. S. Adams, Searsmont,
say, Eben G. Maddocks, L. W. Howe.
Camden, Me-, L. o. Gross, Carl L.
Adams, Lucy K. Hatch Someryille.
Mass, Mary A. Martin, Frances Howes.
L. 7. Sukeforth, J. M. Sukeforth, Ches-
ter M. Howes, Burton A. Eastman, Mag
gle Eastman,J. H. Esancy, S. P. Colby.
c. A. Mcclure, Edwin Adams, Arthur i.
Esancy, A. V. Martin, L. S. Newbert.
John Cecil Robinson, J. E. Robinson.
The next feature of the meeting was
the annual address of the President, and
the remarks of others; in word, free
speech in open meeting. The President
lit on his part this time butt end fore
most. He struck the beauties of the
Dale first, the horrors of the world last.
No wonder! Who does not want to hide
away from the thought that mankind.
processing highest knowledge, culture,
the science and gathered wisdom of the
ages, has plunged into the BLACKLIST abyss
of barbarism in wrecking property that
might do so much good, and SIN ashing
heads and desolating hearts not the least
involved in their issues. In fact they
have no issues except what lordly domi-
nation would make with:the sovereign
rights of all men. The Chief says, and
l guess he knows, that therefore all
lovers of true peace have got to see this
issue threshed out on that line, and that
the sovereignty of man has got to win.
Good for him. That's right. He SAYS
that. if the Germans slam into Uncle
Sam s folks any more, U. S. has got to
tell Will ANS agents over here to pack
right up and get out of the country. and
l guess that's so. If William wants to
call it an act of war, then the Chief
reckons that US. without sending across
the pond ship or man, can make
William very weak in the knees, and, by
George, | b'lieve it. The Chief said
Bro. Wilson seems now to be gettin'
down to what he, the chief, suggested
some time ago, namely the calling of all
the powers of No. and So. America, to
put reeking old Mexico where she be-
longs, in the category of decency; lest,
when we come to council of the ma
lions to help Europe recoup from her dy-
ing gasp, they point at US the finger of
grim sarcasm and say, You'd better
hitch up the asses, and muzzle the hounds.
and jug the bandits at your back door
before you come over to save us from
our bane and ruin
Well, as l started 70 say, me chief
struck the trail first at the place of his
birth back of the Quantabacook up there
on the Morrill, road in No. Searsmont,
and most charming place it is too, with
view over the lake and to the noun
tain south. that has no comparison fer
natural grace in the wide world. He
next struck the trail at the meadow and
the schoolhouse and the cemetery, where
the associations of his boyhood cluster as
bright galaxies of stars in heaven, where
his kindred and so many Of his old mates
| sleep in the low green tent whose cur
tain never outward swings. Time, ma
tion, it kind of makes the eyes water
and the voice choke, most of us are made
little soft that way, you know. We
amt no militarists to impale youngsters
to the school house door with a bradawl
or goard stick-not supposed in Dale
democracy to keep bayonets; but there is
here and there one left over from the
Civil war, when Alexander Woodman
and uncle John @. Adams went to nail
human slavery to the wall and save the
union built onibalIots, not on.bullets.
The President then introduced his COL
lege classmate, Herbert F. Shaw, M. D.,
who came through from Mount Vernon,
Me-, fifty miles in his auto that day, to
attend the Dale meeting, a big, brainy
fellow, most eminent physician, trav-
eller in the old world of Europe, but
man of the people, and he took like wild
fire in the Dale. Everybody fell in love
with him, but there were no Opponents.
He 'aint so easily rautled. The Chief
said. ''In our student days while the rest
of US had to plug to learn anything Shaw
would lean back in his chair, perch his
heels little higher than his head, and
just drink in knowledge, and so he's got
big fund OF it, So when Shaw came
to talk, very gracefully he seemed to re-
call Artemus Wards old saying, "You
scratch my back and I'll scratch your
back, and hence said fine things Of his
old classmate Phillips. He gave him
credit for inspiring the best things of
knowledge in himself and for lifting