Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-08-16
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Names Economic Future

Senator Brewster's view of Names economic future
is that it lies in the development of tourist
business In his tour of Androscoggin County he dis
cussed this proposition prefacng it by saying that the
two great crops OF Maine are tourists and potatoes
and that each brings $50,O00,O0O annually into the
state.
No one would belittle the value of the summer
tourist business to Maine On the other hand there
is possible basis which Senator Brewster or any
one else can figure with any degree of accuracy how
much money it brings into Maine or how much of that
money represents net profit. There is good deal OF
nonsense mixed up in that sort of statement.
And without in any way deriving the Importance
of the resort business, would hardly think
it desirable that Names future should depend upon
it. The summer is short. The vacation period of the
tourist is short No people safely depend upon
purely seasonal business basis of economic life.
Besides that do not want to become state of hotel
keepers and garage men, We do not want to bring up
boys and girls in the belief that the only
open to them are those of bell boys and mattresses.
Maine hotels are part and an important part of
business lfe but they cannot be made the great
factor of unless we are to look upon
Names future very different from its past
monweath devoted to catering to the needs of the
travelling tourist would not represent ideal of
Maine.
Other things being equal, that community is most
prosperous (and hence more desirable to live in be-
cause the moral and spiritual life of people rests
which most nearly to producing enough to take
of its needs.
If Maine could reach the point where it could profit
ably produce large portion, if not ALL of the grain
and beef and pork and mutton the dairy products the
canned fish and vegetables, the furniture the wool,
the apples, the small fruit, which is consumed in the
state, we should not be receiving much of what
Senator Brewster calls foreign money" for these
things but would be preventing whole lot of good
State OF Maine money going abroad.
We would like to more summer hotels and more
all the year round hotels protably carried in Maine
but would rather good cotton mill or shoe
factory or WOODEN mill half dozen good stock farms
operating In a town than new hotel, although, of
course, both would be desirable.
There are two things that are sure and Senator
Brewster might well recognize them first as last.
There will be industrial development in Maine
long the State rts with the half-baked socialism
which attractive to him and his associate in that
respect Governor Baxter concerning water power de-
velopment and there will be no immediate development
in any line in Maine if his friends and supporters of
the ku Klux Klan succeed in combining the business
investors in Maine properties to those whom they de-
scribe as 100 per cent Americans.
community given over to intolerance and bigotry
Will not attract either population wealth and an
administration devoted to preventing business from
functioning sound financial lines will not aid in the
upbuilding of Maine
DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE
BY Clayton Eames, Secretary.