Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-04

out Of the mandates of our Prohibi-
tory Law.
We approve the policy Of our
present State Executive In enforcing
strict economy in all departments
Recognizing that Agriculture Is
one of the fundamental Industries
Of any land, and that q continuance
Of the present situation of our
farmers wherein husbantiry il re.
ceivfng Inadequate returns for its
toll. and in thousands of instances
no returns at all-that q continuance
Of the present situation Of our
farmers 10 fraught with peril, we
advise the incoming Legislature to
make generous provisions for our
Department Of Agriculture. that its
Bureau OF Markets may aid the
farmer in. getting to the consumer
the Incompatible products In which
we lead in quality. such as the
Maine apple. the Maine sweet corn,
Maine milk and dairy products and
the Maine seed potato.
We believe that trust funds, money
paid to the State for timber and
grass sold from Public Lots, and held
by the State Treasurer for the future
populations OF unorganixed town.
ships, should be returned to
tangible form and invested in real
estate mortgages. under the Farm
Lands Loan Act, enacted in 1917.
We have granted to our farmers
the right to cooperate and thus by
aggregation to remove the handicap
of lack of capital to meet pitiless
competition. And. just a. whole
heartedly, do we pledge to any who
have invested or who propose to in
vest their funds in industry, in
Maine, every aid, consistent with
the public welfare, in the develop
ment of their property realizing
that the windmill or the water
wheel, set upon a mans land, turns,
first, for the benefit Of the owner of
the land.
The lesson taught by the Maine
Water Power Commission has been
caught, by pupils at all quick Of
The tuition came high; but was
we'll expended, If, now that more
than nifty per cent of our popula-
ton live in cities and large Wiz
lagos, our policy toward manu-.
featuring industries is settled.
We have demonstrated the value
or improved highways, and so far az
our ability will permit, we will con-
t1nue road building. to the end that
the farmer who must cart his pro.
duce to market shall meet the least
possible resistance in the way, and
that the tourist who rolls over our
roads, shall leave our borders, to
advertise the attractions OF our
halcyon holiday time.
Our nope as state Is built on
nothing less than full common
school education for the sons and
daughters of every resident, white.
black. or yellow. Of every race, sect
or religion.
And we agree that to those who
are lowest in the scale OF knowl-
edge we should most zealously
proffer the privileges of education.
We are interested in World
Movements of Education, but much
more deeply that every little shaver
In Maine shall be able to read un-
derstandingly the Constitutions of
the United States and of his mother.
Maine; to express himself clearly
and cogently in the English tongue,
and TO compute the interest on his
savings Deposit, that each shall
have this minimum Of education.
the paid-up endowment policy of
insurance which we are purchasing
ny taxation for every child born
within our borders.
Education
In the name of popular educati
we nave set up our Banners, and
! from the pinnacle where our
splendid State University points out
over limitless area. down through
every stratum of society to the
Night school. where, to hands stiff
tened by toll, our cities and towns
arc holding out the open sesame
tnat brings to the view of the be-
nighted foreigner his first glimpse Of
the golden promise of Americanizs-
tlon. with measured tread. and
READS held high, we advance upon
the future.
At the suggestion and through the
unnagg1ng effort of q noble Maine
woman we have placed the childhood
OF our state beyond the power of
any recreant board of municipal as
SCISSORS to blast and impoverish.
For the past twenty years we
nave been steadily building toward
self protecting control OF those Of
lowest intelligence.
The salvage of our State Schools
Tor Girls and Boys, our Women's
Reformatory. Mems Reformatorv
and our School for the Feeble Mind.
ed IS q great return on the invest
ment.
IL the State tax seems high, some
Gay visit our Pownal institution. and
you'll thank God that you have con-
tributed to 1t in pecuniary support.
as that you have not contributed in
personnel. "
The quiet, but continuous citizen.
puiiuing, through Municipal Boards
of Childrens Guardians. under tba
supervision of our new State De-
partment. which is training A reri.
Inent. 1900 strong, to be self-re-
speeding. self-reliant men ana wo-
men, otherwise fiotsam and worse
IMAM waste; this implanting some Of
tne attributes of the Creator in
those who were made in, and who
may, by nurture and admonition ONLY
grow into His image, is the crown,
ing glory of our state activities. in
this age of wonders.
THESE. my friends. are some OF the
policies which we profess,
These are Republican doctrines
Adjoining these doctrines by ins,ili-
ing them in character and fibre we
shail Keep the faith. administer nav
courage to the down hearted: and
as heretofore, when Sentemhe,.
comes. we shall assure each doubt.
ing Thomas of the mission Of The
nepubiican Party, and Of Republican
National Success.
the address was frequently inter-
rupted by applause. At its close fhe
chairman introduced Mrs. Sylvester
weis OF Kansas City. who. he said.
nag come to Maine by way Of Texas
40 instrlct and entertain us. We 20
to Missouri to learn and Missouri
comes to us to be shown What tha
Maine Republicans In convention are
IKE. IKE She found them very apprecia-