1Y2 NORTH AROOSTOOK SOCIETY. 



I like the good old Anglo Saxon phrase, "brought up.'^ This 

 means something — there is some pith to it. It means, not only, 

 that children should be taught grammar, and geography, and arith- 

 metic, and natural philosophy, and Greek, and Latin, and music, 

 and drawing, and dancing, and all the arts and sciences, useful and 

 ornamental, and the mind disciplined and developed, so that it can 

 grasp the abstruse and the profound ; but it means that they sliall 

 be taught to obey father and mother, to love brother and sister, to 

 reverence and worship God, to do by others as they would that 

 others should do unto them ; to know how to fell the forest and 

 pile up the logs ; to raise potatoes, and corn and oats, and wheat ; 

 to swim the river, if necessary, to camp out in the woods, and be 

 able to withstand the winter's cold and summer's heat, by having 

 all their physical powers developed and made strong by vigorous 

 exercise. This is what Solomon meant, when he said, " train up," 

 (bring up, he meant) " a child in the way he should go, and when 

 he is old he will not depart from it." 



Third. — Man needs a home — a place on earth which he can call 

 his oicn. A spot of earth upon which he can stand, and proclaim 

 to all the world around, that these acres, more or less broad, as the 

 case may be, are his. A spot of which he can say with truth, "of 

 this I am monarch!" 



This beautiful earth of ours was given to man for a possession. 

 Not to one man alone, but to all men ; by Him who made of one 

 blood all nations of men to dwell upon the face of the earth. It 

 is the duty of men to divide this earth among themselves, so that 

 every one shall have a part. And I hold that any social or legal 

 system, which enables a few men to spread their title deeds over 

 thousands of acres which they cannot occupy, whilst all around 

 them are their landless and homeless brethren, is a gross violation 

 of the laws of nature and of nature's God. They have no right to 

 land which they cannot occupy, when another comes and wants it 

 for actual occupancy, any more than one man has a right to anoth- 

 er's sinews and strength. Having secured his portion of soil, more 

 or less extensive, just as the case may be, and his occupation 

 requires, he wants a house, a place having walls and a covering, 

 into which he can retreat from the inclemencies of the elements, 

 and, when he is so disposed, shut out every outside barbarian, 

 taste the sweets of the pleasures of retirement in the bosom of the 

 loved ones of his own household ; where husband and wife and 

 children can enjoy the pleasures of free and social converse, with 



