Inaugural Address of [the Governor]1883 |
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Сторінка 11 - Agriculture feeds us; to a great degree it clothes us; without it we could not have manufactures, and we should not have commerce. These all stand together, but they stand together like pillars in a cluster, the largest in the centre, and that largest is agriculture.
Сторінка 6 - ... the liberty of conscience. Accustomed " in their native land to no more than a plain country life and the innocent trade of husbandry," they set the example of colonizing New England, and formed the mould for the civil and religious character of its institutions.
Сторінка 40 - The shores of life are shifting, Every year; And we are seaward drifting, Every year; Old places, changing, fret us, The living more forget us, There are fewer to regret us, Every year. But the truer life draws nigher, Every year; And its morning star climbs higher, Every year; Earth's hold on us grows slighter, And the heavy burden lighter, And the dawn immortal brighter, Every year.
Сторінка 12 - If he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before is a public benefactor...
Сторінка 34 - There has undoubtedly been a difference of opinion among good and conscientious citizens in regard to the best mode of eradicating intemperance, but there are few who are unwilling to admit that there has been a wonderful change for the better in public sentiment where the law has been rigidly enforced. In a large part of the State, embracing more than three-fourths of our population [ie the rural districts] the liquor traffic is practically unknown.
Сторінка 5 - The Mayflower sought our shores under no high-wrought spirit of commercial adventure, no love of gold, no mixture of purpose warlike or hostile to any human being. Like the dove from the ark, she had put forth only to find rest. Solemn...
Сторінка 34 - ... opinion among good and conscientious citizens in regard to the best mode of eradicating intemperance, but there are few who are unwilling to admit that there has been a wonderful change for the better in public sentiment where the law has been rigidly enforced. In a large part of the State, embracing more than three-fourths of our population, the liquor traffic is practically unknown. It lingers on a small scale, and more or less secretly, in our larger towns and cities, producing in them the...
Сторінка 38 - ... Moreover, the people by a decided majority have declared that the Executive branch of the government is as much bound to conform its action to the opinion of the Supreme Court, when promulgated in obedience to the constitution, as private citizens are to obey its mandates. This decree of the people is in harmony with the letter and spirit of the constitution and the precedent since the foundation of the State. Such a Supreme Court as Maine has had from the beginning, men of integrity and purity...
Сторінка 32 - State in the propogation of fish and game. Serious complaints have been made in regard to the manner of taking and the disposition of small lobsters, which without some remedy will produce deleterious consequences. The suggestions of the Commissioner are worthy of consideration. INSURANCE. The Commissioner has compiled valuable statistics in regard to the several companies doing business in this State. I commend to you his suggestions and recommendations. The business is important, far poaching in...
Сторінка 15 - Its prosperity demonstrates that it is one of the best of States in which to live. I congratulate you, gentlemen, that all her interests were never more prosperous and her future was never more promising than it is to-day. EDUCATION. We find by a recent tabulation of the nation's illiteracy that our own State occupies an advance position in the matter of public intelligence. While New Mexico shows a population in which 60.2 per cent.