Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-01

the State Of Maine. nor Of the State of
Louisiana. nor Of the State of Nebras-
ka. nor Of the State OF NV. York.
When 1t comes to the proposition OF
the common defense ana sending
forth men to keep Liberty safe for
us. then l am sure we are ready to
take our suggestions from Washing
ton. from the same WASHINGTON
where we have our Supreme Court,
from the same Washington where we
have our President, and our legisla-
tive and judicial branches of the
Federal Government. from the same
Washington where Abraham Lincoln
sent forth the clarion message that
kept this nation all free.
The economic argument does not
appeal to me. You are not going to
build up a big bureaucracy by this
and II you do incur big overhead
expense 1t Is case where there are
tustifiable results. Does not the econ
onic argument come from the sources
that are fearful of large Federal
taxes. who want the income taxes
cut down? Does it not come, in other
words. gentlemen OF the House, from
interests outside Of the State of Maine
that are constitutionalIy averse to
the people taking forward looking
steps provided it results in a burden
on property?
Now. what about the polite argu-
ment, the Capitalization of govern
ment? The gentleman did we'll to ad-
vert to State aid for roads, for your
University OF Maine. Tell me, in
Heavens name, when did it occur to
invoke this DOGGY of Capitalization
up here in northern New England.
up here where we have always stood
for the Hamiltonian theory. for the
bigger. stronger. centralized govern
ment? When did it occur that there
was going to be danger to the SOW
ereignty OF our free people in this
state because little money was
needed in order to aid in the PROPOSE
ton of bringing into the world
healthy boys and healthy girls and
to relieve them from some OF the
burdens incident to motherhood. wo-
men DESTROYS of so doing? That ia
different from the proposition of
building market road from Podunlx
to the nearest metropolis. We did
not fear Federal aid when it was a
proposition OF our State University.
We did not fear Federal aid when
1t was proposition Of our National
Gucrd. Now. l would like to Know
this State are not just as important
on this proposition of aid from their
Federal Government, as the bows
who are going to make up a part of
our national defense unit And when
you come to the proposition of an
actual defense by arms there is not
anybody but who will immediately
recognize. not only the propriety but
the necessity Of Federal aid.
i do not know of any Federal
authority that absolutely refutes the
DOGGY OF an over-centralized govern
ment. A man whom we up here in
Maine have always honored, and
Whom men all over the nation honor
end who is honored all over the
world because above and beyond and
over oil he was more responsible for
our Constitution than any other man
that ever lived-and that was Alex-
ander Hamilton-speaking on this
very subject said in The Federalist"
on page three. AN enlightened zeal
for the energy and efficiency of gov
ernmeHt will be stigmatized, .as the
offspring of temper fond of despotic
power, and hostile to the principles of
liberty. An oVer-ScrupulouS jealousy
or danger to the rights of tho people.
which is more commonly the fault of
the head than of the heart. will be
represented as mere pretence and
artifice; the stale gait for popularity
at the expense of public good. 1t
will be forgotten, on the one hand,
that jealousy is the usual concom-
liant of violent love, and that the
noble enthusiasm of liberty is too
apt to be infected with a spirit of
narrow and illiberal distrust. On the
other hand, it will be equally for
gotten that the yigor of government
is essential to the security of liberty;
that in the contemplation Of a sound
and well Informed Judgment their in
terests can never be separated: and
that dangerous ambition more often
turks behind the spacious mask of
zeal for the rights of the people than
under the forbidding appearance Of
zeal for the frmness and efficiency
of government. History will teach
us that the former has been found
much more certain road to the in
PRODUCTION OF dcspotism than the lat
ter; and that of those men who have
overturned the liberties of republics
the greatest number have begun their
career by paying an obseQuious court
to the people; commencing dema-
gogus. and ending tryants."
Health is the national asset. The
health OF boy or girl up here in the
state of Maine is not only a matter
of vital concern to the home and to
the State and to this section of the
country, but to all the country. That
money has been appropriated at
Washington. If we do not take it,
there it is. Now. where do we for
one instant sacrifice one bit of our
self respect. one bit of our sover-
eighty. in taking a part of that of
which we have already paid q part
in our taxes?
Several years ago it was then my
duty. as l saw it, standing within a
very few feet of here, to oppose the
proposition of women voting l acted
then just as l saw the argument and
I say now that this is the first pro-
position that we have seen that is
backed by united woman support. The
gentleman says the women are not
united back Of it. All right. then
will say relative to the argument on
woman's suffrage that the women
were not united back Of it. Probably
they were not. but the way they have
gone to the polls and the interest
they have manifested in government
and the good they are doing in gov
eminent has demonstrated that they
are an active, vigorous, militant
force. And certainly no man can
gainsay that the active. vigorous,
militant sentiment of women who are
interested in politics and things
polite is back of this measure There
cannot be any harm in it unless WE
are going to smirch the escutcheon
of our sovereignty. l think Mr..
Hamilton takes care of that. If not.
then I commend you to the precedent
that has already been established in
your own state in the matter Of your
State University. Applause).
Mr.. HOLMES of Lewiston: Mr..