Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-03-26


it, the Chief Executive suggested the
answer to the objection that the sta"
tutc obtained. The statute Is MOTH
ing IL the amendment prevails He
suggested that q change In phrase
olosy was possible. 1t has not been
made. Now what are you going to
do with that? Don't make any mis-
take. [ am against it on principle.
Don't you think you are Affecting
according to Aesops Fable, the doS
that looked into the stream and saw
his ref1ection-don't you think you
are affecting some other instltu-
lions? You arc going to cut off, in
the first place, every one of the towns
in the state of Maine that you find
over here in this list, and you Will
find them on your desks, and l have
down through here are Leavitt, Linz
the towns that have contracts-An-
son Academy. Bluehill. George Stev,
ems Academy. Bridgewater Classical
Institute; it does not affect Bridgton
Academy a bit: Calais Academy; IT
does not affect the Cathedral high
school in Portland because they
never got a nickel Cherryteld
Academy; it does not affect Copurn
Classical Institute under the Acad-
envy aid, but you do affect 1t unler
the resolve; Corinna Union, East
Corinth, the Eastern Maine Institute
at Springfield, the Eastern Maine
Conference Seminary at Bucksport-
no. / am wrong about that, and
will write that out; it is not a1tecteo
under the Academy aid; it is affect
ed under the second paragraph OF the
resolve: Erskine Academy at South
China is affected because it is con-
tract school: Foxcroft Academy Is
affected very vitality; Freedom Acad-
envy. no; F'ryeburg Academy, no;
Could Academy. no: Greedy 1nsti-
tute at Cumberland Centre. no;
Hampden Academy at Hampdeh'
very vitality: Hartland Academy at
Hartland. very vitality: HEBRON
Academy. no; Higgins Classical In
stiMte. yes. The contract sc,ool'
down through here are Leavitt. Linn
erick. Iiminston, Lincoln. Titchf1eld,
Maine Central Institute, Maine Wes-
leyan Seminary-no, it is not: the
Academy at Lincoln is not: Mo1-
mouth Academy is: Monsoon Acad-
envy is; Parsonsfeld is: Patten
| is; Robert Traipp Academy IS;
Somerset Academy at Athens Is:
Thornton Academy at Saco-now. 1
will say it is. That is located in the
city of Saco, serving as hlgh
school 1t is an academy in that
| beautiful big city drawing aid under
| this Academy fund. That is one OF
the towns that ! am sorry for, but
they are better able to stand 1t than
they are up at Mars Hill, or than
| they are over at China or at Vassal-
| boro. They are better able to build
high school. Yes. they are better
able to build a high schol in Calais.
and Your Calais high school Is an
academy. and has been all these
years. And Wiscasset Academy. and
| Wilton Academy.
Now an interesting thing to you
might be to show you how your
counties are affected. and I have
made a little table upon that which
is rather interesting. In Aroostook
county. in the town of Mars HILL
slO,370, and st. Mary's at Van
Buren,. s3.042. and they lose altogeth-
err s16.912; In Androscoggin Leavitt
Institute. $500; Cumberland loses
! $4,000; Hancock county loses $1,000;
Kennebec County loses $4,000: Lin
coin county loses $4,000: Oxford
county loses $3.50; Franklin county
loses $1,000: Somerset county loses
$1,000; Penobscot county-and here
is the banner academy county. and
in this Barwise bill Penobscot coun-
ty loses s3i.304; PiscataGuis loses
| S21. 500; Washington county loses
| s17,3S4; and here is the runner-up
for the championship class. York
county with sS4,147. That is where
the money has been going. | don't
care. if you think 1t is wise to cut
these Academies off, you will cripple
the towns and injure the academy,
but over and above and beyond all
You are limiting the youth. OF
course, they can do another thing;
they can get state aid. They can't get
a penny by the town voting it, but
they can all come down here to this
legislature and flood it with private
resolves and make it up in that way,
| provided they don't teach in their
schools morality and piety. In the
words of the Parsonsfield Seminary
charter if they teach morality and
piety by chartered right they are
legislated beyond the pale But every
! private academy in Maine is preclud-
ed from other than special resolves.
Mr.. President and Gentlemen, per-
| laps | have already taken too much
OF Your time, but have only casual
ly adverted to few objections.
| think that this measure is unjust
| because it savorS to me Of breach Of
faith. AS the Senator from Cumber-
| land, Senator Hincllley. most elo-
| quSHily ISleileu W lle dlllcle OIL
| separation. article seven protects
certain institutions that were in ex-
istence at that time. You cannot
deal differently with them. But all
| down through the years men and wo-
men have put their subsistence and
their blood and brains and their best
efforts into the building up of these
institutions, dedicated ad majorem
Del gloram. for the greater benefit
of this State and for the greater
glory of God. And then in the year
1925 the state of Maine says, not
Withstanding our constitutional pro-
/. mise here in Art. VII. notwithstand-
ing article eight SAYS that we shall
! from time to time do so and so. up
| on the wording OF which and upon
tic sense &C which YOU had right
| TO rely, in 1929 we are going to leg
! islate YOU beyond the pale Do YOU
n'ean separation of church and state.
| or Go YOU mean opposition of church
and state. Those two generalities
| nay be very easily confused
Gentlemen. | am not standing up
| Eere speaking from any particular
religious persuasion. ! am talking
as citizen of the state of Maine,
but | am not Goin" to allow this oc-
'aSion to pass without saying this.
that as | view it this is very thinly
Camout1aGed and yelled attack no.
upon Catholicism but upon orthodox
l'rotestanism. and | do not believe
That Professionalism any more than
| catholicism needs defense here.
but the institutions that are
affected here. eight to two.
are institutions that have given to
the State of Maine Governors and
congressman. Judges and Senator's.
end legion of men who have sired
and mothers who have borne chill
| dren who have been a credit and who