Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-12

OIVOh SUMMARY SbO,OVV IIOH 400 " |!
1928; Somerset Academy. 1885:
Thornton Academy, 11,52S acres Of |
land 1t does not make any differ. |
ence. gentlemen. whether you are CIV |
Ing away land that belongs to the !
people or money. Some gentlemen CONF |
plain that we are deprived Of our nat. |
ural birthright in that our timber !
lands were sold. 1 cannot conceive !
that If the principle OF the gentle |
man from Bangor (Mr. Barwise) is |
correct. the distinction between CIV |
ing land to private individuals and |
private corporations or land to pri- |
vate institutions. the principle is the
same. Enough on that branch!
There they are. desire the House
to observe them. There Is q COM
plete list OF all the academies and
higher institutions of learning that
have received any aid from the State
Of Maine under Article Eight. All of
them! No. l am wrong. There are two
more that l overlooked. Those two
are st. Joseph's Academy and st.
Mary's College, and those are all the
Catholic institutions there are.
Observation-Disclosures Of higher
learning. I am not referring to your
Aroostook public schools. your common
schools. Let me tell you what the
two Catholic institutions Of learning
have had. They have had $4,000 in
all the years and Bates College had
$4,000 In 1909 and 1910. Enough Of
that! Gentlemen. I say that It is
unjust. tmpolitic.-and / do not want
anybody.to think that I impugn the
motives here of anybody. But it does
not make any difference in matters
OF this sort what the motives are. 1t
Is the far-reaching consequences that
you have to look after. and tell you
that you cannot help by passing this
| proposition but create an atmosphere
| of unrest: you cannot help but create
a condition which fosters that Of which
we hear all through the land today
which do not believe needs any
repressive legislation to meet 1T
! do not believe in repressive leRisla-
| ton of any kind. DO not like it;
| but a good deal of this agitation
! which we hear in the land today is
, not all intended as malicious, not at
| all 1t should not be encouraged either
! Intentionally CT stupidity. Every great
| war in it's train has carried these con-
| sequences based upon emotion. AS
| quickly as the objective at which the
national sentiment has been aimed is
won. new channels attract the flood.
| When the objectiNc--shall ] say Of
| hate bcfouso really that is what it is
we Know, whether right or wrong that
/ there was one nation In 1917 at which
| our hymn of hate was directcd--is
reached. the passion still lasts. We
are trying to get away from
| that now. but Immediately on
removing the objective of hate. you
| cannot at once correct the mental and
! moral impulses of a people. You
cannot Go it. They still move right
along just like some big engine that
! mas got an impetus and goes along
/ OF its own force. and the result is
! you ind just as we have seen i'm the
! last few years that everybody who
| made proposition that was not alb
soiutely orthodox, why he was a
! Bolshevist. Why the Attorney Gen
eral of the United States got so eX-
: cited that he was inaust,ratlng all
| kinds of Reds protection. |, my
| self. like every other man, used to
! look at the papers every morning to
/ see when the Red uprising was com
| ing. This was largely bugaboo, my
| friends. We must work along the
| proposition of normaicN and help
| counterfeit this unrest. both outside
J of the state end in. | tell you. my.
( friends. that you cannot pass any
such measure as this without ,en-
| couraging that sentiment. 1t is GO
| ing to- be friend against friend: it
| is going to be associate against as
! soclate. You are going to have
I needless discussion upon. unnecessary
/ issues. l can;lot imagine that any
! nun here believes for minute in
stirring religious dissention in this
State. On that proposition Washing
. ton said: Instead of Offering the
most remote insult, it is the duly
! to address public thanks to our
Catholic brethen as to them we are
indebted for every late success over
! the common enemy in Canada"
Washington said that at Washington,
November S, 1115.
| The gentleman from Bangor
tMr. Barwise). cites James Mad
| ison. and like to quote him,
Madison said: That diabolicaI. hell
| conceived principle of persecution
RACES among us. l have neither
/ patience to hear. talk or think of
anything relative to this matter; for
have squabbled and scolded, abused
and ridiculed so long about it to lit
tie purpose. that l am Without COM
mon patience"
| Thomas jefferson again: "All and
every act of parliament by whatever
| title known or distinguished. which
renders criminal the maintaining of
any opinion in matters of religion or
| exercising any mode of worship
! whatever shall henceforth be of no
| validity or force within this Common
| wealth"
Abraham Lincoln. than whom [ pre-
sumo there is no more absolute. typical
! personifcation of what we really
mean and try to say and think of as
Americansm-Abra Lincoln writ
ing to his intimate friend. Joshua +.
Speed in 1855: when the Know
/ Nothings get control, it (the Declar-
| atom will read All men are created
equal except negroes, foreigners and
Catholics When it comes to this
| should prefer emigratng to some
country where they make no pretense
| of loving liberty"
William Howard Taft: There is
nothing so despicable as secret
society that is based upon religious
prejudice and that will attempt to
defeat a man because Of bis religious
beliefs. Such society is like a
cockroach. it thrives in the dark. so
do those who combine for such an
end"
Harding, our present Presi-
a year of the Presidency. there
has come to me no other
such unwelcome impression as the
manifest religious intolerance which
exists among many of our citizens. I
hold it to be a menace to the very lib
critics we boast and cherish" That
was March "a, 1922.
Now it is not in the minds or the
heart of any man in this Legislature
to do one single thing to bring him
self under those descriptions; but. gen.
tlemen. do you not believe that at this
tv,,o Sa.ha to e.