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

| ,,,~n. -, eHs anu should not
want my daughters, or anyone in wboro
! was interested. to be tnterferca r;,i
IN my nome. l have raised chi,dron
that l am proud of. have bcen In -
soou many homes. and talked with a
SOU many mothers. and l would not
want anyone to interfere in tho hrinv-
ing up of my children; and when tho
mothers or tho State of Maine Gov
raise SUCH splendid body of lerisl..
tors as we have here. such a lovely
sa.neilhs OF women and men as there
~ mere, they need no interference T
plausc.) 49, zap
Mr. CUMMINGS of Portland. Mr.
Speaker and Members of tho Ho,,sa
nave no desire to burden Won Win
any extended remarks; L merely rise 70
JustllS' II l may, the vote which T
shali cast on this occasion. have
ieao somewhere that everyone should
ne apie 10 give reason for tho faitb
tnat Is IN MN. l understand perfectly
well mat this is a matter upon which
very aplc men and women differ. We
nave hearu some very excellent nd
dresses today upon this question.
nave no quarrel with the man who
.iil'hs Inherently from what | NAV
.''ih. upon TINS matter but it seems to
.'e 'li"t when YOU boil the thing down,
t'creiE TINS: We have in the State
VI Maine an organization to do this
work. ana which is doing this work.
me proposition is that it shall re-
celEe' or may receive. from the Fed
eral government the amount amor
! ''oi'eo 10 TINS State for CARRYING on the
"oiM Which IT Is already doing In
etoer 10 receive that, our own boa I'd
PAGES before the national authority
plan under which they are now
cNpendlng their own money and under
winch they will eXpend the aid to be
| received from the national government
i am as jealous perhaps as almost
anyone OF foreign interference in local
AFFAIRS. III l believed that this act. or
| the purpose of this act or the receive
ing of Federal aid in CARRYING II out
| would invade the home, or interfere
with the rights of our citizens, Won
may rest assured that I would be on
posed to it.
rms is e matter which have taken
some time in considering. have given
| very Scant comfort to either side that
nave approached in regard to my opin-
| ION on this matter. | have done tho
pest l could to ascertain the facts and
! the bearings of this thing. and my con-
| cluslon is that there would be no inter-
terence IN our home affairs NO inter-
terence win our rights. if VIC accept
ed TINS small stipend from the nation
al government. If. by receiving that.
this organization which we now have
IN this State is to invade the homes and
tfespass upon the rights and privi-
! tScS or our citizens. then, gentlemen.
"hat we want to do is to abolish the
| board that We now have. If the time
ever comes when this board which is
| now IN existence and doing this work
| does interfere with the home and tres
pass upon the rights of our citizens.
YOU may rest assured that I will be
one OF the first men to try and do away
| with it: but believing as I do that in
terlerence OF that sort is not threat,
cned by receiving this aid from the ma
| tional government. ] shall vote in ia
vor of the majority report on this bill.
| (Applausc)
| Mr.. BARWISE Of Bangor: Mr..
Speaker l do not wish to take the
! Tune OF this House in recapitula,ing
any argument that has been made;
but the best way to find out how a
| measure is working, a meas sure of ma
tional scope. is to inquire how it is
working in those states that have act
uailE accepted it. 1t is. very easy to
throw out buGaboos of fear. Fear is
the most easily aroused of any of our
passions. and it is taken advantage of
DE all those who oppose any new idea
or any advancement in any department
of the worlds thought. Forty-two
states are now working under this bill
-forty-two American states-and they
nave not found the purity of the home
destroyed. They have not found any
of these terrible things that have been
portrayed to us that would take place.
1t is also simply a bugaboo that the
opponents of this bin are setting up.
and the actual experience of more than
ninety per cent. of the American peo-
pie is that this law works we'll in the
states where they. have tried it: and
this Federal government down in
| Washington as my friend from Fair
field CHR. Weeks tries to talk about
it as though Washington was in an
other country somcw herc-down in our
Washington the capital of our govern
mcnt. and this Federal government is
our government a S much as this State
government ia our gONernment-if
these opponents were consistent in
| their talk that patprnalism is the basis
| on which they could reasonably oppose
this bill, then these very same OPP
poncnts ought to come in here and adj
vance measures whereby we would re-
fuse to receive aid in other depart
n,cnts of our work. If paternalism is
SO hateful in a matter of this sort, why
! is it so beautiful in questions of cdu-
cation, better cattle and in tho preser-
walton of our forests and all the other
means whereby we receive aid from
, the Federal government? I merely
want to say. let us meet this question
| with our Judgment and not with our
| emotion. Let US reason with our brains
and not with our fears. and learn from
the experience of those states that
have actually found this proposition to
! be a good one. (Applause.)
| Mr.. MCDONALD of East Machias:
Mr. Speaker and gentlemen. as Chief
Justice Cornish OF our State Supreme
/ Court said at a banquet of the Bar
! Association few weeks ago. we
have been led to the heights by the
oratory of the gentleman who pre-
| ceeded me. Now, / just want to say
a few words to you from the view
| point of a practitioner of medicine.
l have practscd in one Of our rural
communities for many years and
| have seen great many maternity
| cases. and we find great many COM
| plications coming up in these cases
that If the patient had had proper
| care and observation a great many
! fatal results might have been pre-
vented. We have hal a very vivid
| picture drawn by the gentleman
| from Lewiston, (Mr. Gagnc), in re-
| gard to the scene in home of the
working people of the State Of Maine.
| But ne also told you something about
half truths ana he did not picture to
you the other home where the moth