Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-17

dorsed by good physicians everywhere.
Scott s. BOVINE. Bloomfield. M. lois
of Norway, Maine; Resolve appropriate
ing money for and authorizing the
purchase of a History of ~Pemaquid;
Resolve in favor of the purchase of 200
copies of the History of the Town of
York; Resolve relating to publication
of Maine in the Northeastern Bound
airy Controversy; Resolve relating to
Documentary History of Maine, report
ed that while any historical work re-
lating to the State of Maine is of the
greatest value, providing it has been
duly edited. SO as to meet the require
ments of the State Library Commits
sion, under present conditions. we be-
lieve the volumes specified in these
several resolves are not absolutely
necessary at this time, and ask leave
to report that legislation thereon is in
expedient.
Mr.. Butler from the committee on
public utilities. on An Act to prohibit
the Bar Harbor and Union River Pow
or Go. from charging discriminatory
rates in the sale Of electric current
CSenate No. 174), reported same ought
not to pass.
sThe same senator from the same
committee, on An Act to provide for
the removal of distractions at and
near grade crossings (Senate No. 221),
reported same ought not to pass, as
the subject matter is covered by an
other bill.
The reports were accepted and sent
down for concurrence.
Mr.. GlLLIN of Penobscot: Mr..
President and senator's, | would like to
have the rules suspended and be al
lowed to introduce u joint resolution at
this time.
, The motion was agreed to.
:. Mr.. GILL1N: Mr.. President and
brother senator's, I think it may not be
amiss in the presentation of this reso-
luton to speak for a few minutes to
) the purpose for which it is offered. Our
form Of government is without a sin
gle precedent in all the annals of the
past. You can find no suggestion of
such a creation in the compiled vol
umes Of history. The idea of a gov
eminent becoming permanent and
lasting. whose sole annointed king was
the peoples voice and destiny their
unrestricted will, was beyond the re-
search of scholars and the compro-
hension of statesmen. 1T was to them
a visionary idea. impracticable, and
unwarranted.
And vet our government was not the
work of a day or Of a year. 1t vas made
possible by the struggles and the sac-
rifices Of noble, liberty-loving men,
who first off-cast their moorings from
the habitable past n ventured chart
less on the sea of a stormy and engen-
0erinC liberty. our declaration of rights
end constitution of unity was ridiculed
and scOffed at by the scholars and the
statesmen of Europe. One hundred and
fOrty-tWo years ago. the founder of
this great government proclaimed to
the world what seemed then this fool
hardy declaration, that God intended
all men to be free and equal-all men
without restriction, without qualiticG-
lion. without limit. and under the shad-
ow OF that broad declaration this grand
nation has been built up of free men
and liberty-loving men.
While our government had no exact
precedent on which to shape its mod
els, it at least had a chart by which
to start the ship of state, in the once
miGhHS little republic of Greece,
around whose shattered urn there still
clusters the flowers of its giant intel
lect, whose matchless intelligence has
climbed TO the very topmost rounds in
the adder of art, and has gilded the
very mountain peaks of the world to-
day. In the early days of the Greek re-
public. A~nacharsis came to Greece to
study 1t. When he had heard its orators
argue n had seen its people vote, he
was asked what he thought of the great
republic, and he said: i think wise
men argue cases and fools decide
them 1t was the timidity of a schol-
ar's judgment. And yet we sit in this
Senate today to know that we have
borrowed 100 idioms of our speech from
that same Greece. copied all our art,
and largely shaped our institutions on
its models. 1t is a thing of the past,
destroyed by forces from within, not
from without. because its people de-
parted from law and order. The found
ers of this great government placed
the supreme court of the Nation as the
guardian of the liberties and rights of
the people. and anything that would
suppress that power will be destruc-
tive to the civil liberty of all the peo-
pie Of this great nation. Today, my
fellow senators. this grand institution
of ours. erected by the founders of this
great body Of men. is "a strange appa-
rition of government" carved from the
ocean and the wilderness. its majesty
kindling and growing amid the storms
of winters and Of wars. until at last
the gloom is broken. its beauty dis
closed In the sunshine. with its heroic
workers resting at its base, while
startled kings and emperors gaze and
marvel that from this rude handful
| cast upon a bleak and unknown shore
should have come the embodied genius
of human government. the perfected
model of human liberty. God bless the
handiwork of those immortal workers
and prosper the fortunes of their living
sons. =
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