Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-20

principle, because we are not DISCUS
sing and going to vote on the prlh-
ciple of boosting Maine because we
do not believe there is any dispute
among us on that principle. we ali
believe in boosting Maine but we are
going to vote incidentally under TINS
question of reconsideration upon
this particular way, this particular
bill or resolve, not upon the prlnclpIe
OF hosting Maine.
This morning when l stepped into
my seat found laying on my desk
what presume all of you have found,
a clipping from the Boston Herald,
showing the photograph OF one Ben
S. Trynin, with an interview with
him and the closing words ! was
struck with were these: Il foresee
the time when the young reared IN
Pasadena and Miami will come 10
New England for their education ana
recreation as the New England youth
of older days went to the Swiss Alps
on the Continent"
We used to hear much about Swift
zerland and the thrifty Swiss, cap
italizing their scenery and tnelr
summer and winter climate, but the
great war exploded that theory.
When the war came and Sutherland
was shut off from the world, the
thrifty Swiss would have starved to
! death If it had not been for the fact
that in Switzerland the scenery is
only a bi-product, and the real bus
mess of the thrifty Swiss in the
manufacturing Of optical instru-
ments, Diesel engines. clocks and
| watches and chemicals and other
things which the world wanted and
was willing to pay good price for.
hoc since /
heard the argument used about the
Swiss profiting for their scenery and
their boosting of Switzerland. or
late 1t is, as intimated in this clip
ping, Pasadena and Miami. That is
to say. 1t is California and Florida.
And if you read this whole inter-
view through you will see how he
speaks of their boosting Florida and
California by means of appropria-
tions. Now, everyone Of us knows
very we'll that however they may
call 1t, in the case of Florida and
California, boosting their States
that down at bottom those two great
states are engaged today in gamb-
ling game, and every time the Cali
fornian bets one million dollars on
California, Florida has cONntered
with a bet of two million dollars on
Florida. And l fear that If we sit
into that game of bluff against those
two desperate gamblers, we will fini
it rather expensive pastime fer our
good old State.
The time was, as remember,
when they used TO say in Florida
| that the Atlantic Coast Line hallway
| and the Seaboard Airline Railway
were the true Governors of Florida.
but they say today that their Real
| Estate Boards and their Real Es-
tate Exchanges in Florida are the
true Governors of that State. l re-
| member the interesting case of the
Yankee farmer who bought through
| the medium of advertising truck
! farm in Florida, a quarter section
| forty acres,-and when he got ready
to pay the last installment he took
4 train and went down to Hillsboro
| County and called on the real e.
tate firm with which he had been
dealing and paid the last inStailment,
and then decided that he would like
! to go out and see his farm, SO the
real estate agent took him out in
lis automobile and showed him the
quarter section. And the farmer
, saw that it was nothing in the world
! but sand and saw grass, and as the
! agent showed him around and he
| looked over the property little
! animal which we in the north would
! call n land turtle hoped out of his
hole in the ground-in Florida they
| call it gopher1and the Yankee
! said. What is that?" and the real
! estate agent said. THAT? That is a
! ropher." And the farmer ack ed,
Can it make living on this soil?"
| And the real estate agent said. "Why
! OF course it can" 'Well, Eere," says
! the farmer. Give the gopher the
| deed" Haughter.)
! Mr.. Speaker. and members of the
| House, / say that for every dollar Of
southern money that has been spent
! in advertising Florida. two dollars f
| northern money, good hard earned
! money, has been sunk in Florida
! swamps advertised as truck land,
| and Florida sand holes advertised as
| good land for citrous fruit growing.
Now, that is the aspect of it which
| does not appeal to me in this re-
rolve. the gambling aspect and
drawing the State of Maine into q
gamble. We used TO hear that at
times the French people said that
the English were a nation of shop
keepers, and they said it in contempt.
SnOuld De sorry TO see the tlmS
come when we would let the impress
sion go out to the world 1 lat the
people of Maine had become a r9ce
of boarding house keepers making
their living by taking in boarders in
the summer and taking in each other
IN the winter. Naughter.)
If there were no other reasons,
81. Speaker, why / would be op-
posed to this particular bill. hoping
to impress again upon you tAe fact
that l am with the proponents in
principle. the reason that l would
be opposed to this bill is. first. that
it does not provide out of what fund
the fifty thousand dollars shall Je
paid and. secondly, that 1t does cot
provide for an accounting of how
the money shall be spent.
A few years ago. this Legislature.
during the war. voted one millicn
dollars into the hands of the Cover
Eor and Council for war purposes,
and, Mr.. Speaker and members, I
defy any man il this State today 1
find out where that money went. ]
have tried myself. two years ago
and I failed. l know a former State
Auditor, one of the best financiers
of this State, who tried it and re
failed, and I say, Mr.. Speaker, nat
in my opinion insofar as the word
ing of this resolve goes, that the