STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



As the business (Organization of such a city, so located and 

 so blessed by nature, we realize that our mission is a state-wide 

 one. Ambitious to increase Lewiston's industries and beauties, 

 we neither expect por hope to accomplish it in any selfish man- 

 ner. The time is past when any man or body of men can pros- 

 per alone. We have unsurpassed schools, unsurpassed natural 

 power privileges, unsurpassed systems of communication with 

 the world, and an unsurpassed citizenship. But we must have 

 a market for our products, as you must have for yours. The 

 nearer and the more easily accessible that market is for us and 

 for you the better for each of us. In a word, we hope to in- 

 crease Lewiston's prosperity by doing our part with you and 

 all other citizens toward making it a center of a more pros- 

 perous community, a more prosperous state. We want to be- 

 come better acquainted ; we want to make our relations more 

 intimate ; we want to share in your prosperity ; we want you to 

 share in ours. The hope that we may in some degree accom- 

 plish this is the controlling reason for seeking these conven- 

 tions. Do not understand me to mean that we are not glad 

 of your presence as a social event, because we most certainly 

 are. What I do mean is that in the great economic struggle 

 in which we all are engaged, your fight is ours and ours is 

 yours, and each may best help the other and thus himself as 

 he best appreciates that fact. 



These are days of great undertakings, — big business, as we 

 often hear it termed — and we can best succeed by keeping that 

 condition in mind. We may and should keep our minds open 

 and our thoughts active to correct the errors that attend it, as we 

 ivould punish them elsewhere. But it is useless, even if it were 

 desirable, to crush it because it is great. It cannot be done 

 without substantial waste and hardship, waste of present fa- 

 cilities for production and hardship to those involved. 



Some one may say he has no tears to shed for a multi- 

 millionaire whose property would depreciate. Stop a minute. 

 Do not think the millionaires are the only ones involved in big 

 business. When you think of the American Sugar Company, 

 consider that it has 18,000 stockholders. The Pennsylvania 

 Railroad has 84,000, and the American Tel. & Tel. Company 

 has more than 53.000. Fifty-three per cent of the stockholders 



