Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1923-12-12

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a guide for our own destiny and that
of the generations to come.
We should stand by the constitu-
: ton of the United States and the
| constitution of Maine. We should
| impress upon the radical the thought
: that the evil we see about us is not
I due to our form of government or to
imperfections in our institutions, but
/ to the frailties of man himself and
the weakness of human nature, The
constitution of the United States will
fit any emergency that may arise, but
we should be careful how we amend
the constitution, that it's continuity
and delicate balance be not de-
stroyed. We should not pass too
many laws, either state or national.
We should combat the tendency of
legislative bodies to indulge in Excess
sive legislation.
1t might be wise, sometimes, If the
/ Congress and our legislature placed
an embargo on all further legislation
for two years with the possible eX-
ception of certain bills having to do
with everyday needs of the govern
ment), spend that two years in re-
considering past legislation, and WHIP
ing efTete laws off our statute books.
LEGISLATURE after legislature in
Maine has passed repressive legisla-
ton. Business enterprise has IN
variably been target for our legls-
latures. And it is not consollng
fact that, while big business has been
fostered in other states which have
grown and prospered and expanded
their commercial activities, built up
their farms, and kept their young
men and women at home, Maine has
dwindled, or stood still.
Our industries, our railroads, our
banks, our power companies, prosper
Gus enterprises, have time after. time
been the target of legislative attack,
and it is this constant repression
that has stifed our initiative and en-
terprise, thwarted our growth, driven
Maine capital into the building up OF
other states, and kept capital OF
other states from building up Maine.
One reason why the farming sec
lions of Maine have been depleted
and why our cities have not grown
with the rest of the country, is be-
cause the majority of the male voters
of the State of Maine, for the past
seventy years, have had static minds.
Right here in the city of Portland,
for instance, l dare say there are IN
telligent business men-yes, and
brilliant laWyers-who do not agree
with the principles of the administra-
ton at Augusta, who do not believe
in allowing the water powers of
Maine to go to waste, who adhere to
the conviction that one way to de-
velop Maine industry is to encourage
the development of our unused
water power first, who believe IN the
encouragement of private initiative
and enterprise in the immediate de-
velopment of our natural resources,
and who are hopelessly out of accord
with the present administration, in
their trend of thought, but who will
go to the polls next September and
vote to return the same adminlstra-
ton to power because their great
grandfathers, their grandfathers and
their fathers voted the republican
ticket This is an illustration of the
most hopeless mind on earth-a
static mind l am not criticising the
individuals responsible for the poll
cies of the present administration.
They are doubtless actuated by the
highest motives and are quite as con-
scientious as ourselves. | am sim
ply criticising the static mind.
But it is my belief that the women
of Maine will not pin the party tag
on and vote one ticket, regardless of
candidates and issues for the next
seventy years. 1t Will be a good
thing to have women, who change
their minds once in a while, in the
political atmosphere of the State of
Maine.
| believe that one of the greatest
drawbacks the State of Maine has
had to contend with in recent years,
is the migration of our young people
to other states. We need them here.
1t has been the fashion to educate
the ambitious young people of our
State to believe that Maine does not
present as good opportunities as can
be found in other states. And so
they go to Massachusetts, or New
York, the middle West or Chicago,
and the energy that their native
State has generated is lost to Maine.
This trend should be reversed.
While we have been spending so
much energy keeping our water
power in Maine and preventing
Massachusetts and Connecticut and
New York from buying our surplus
power, we have done too little to
keep the young people of Maine from