STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. I9 



iitg and agriculture the leading industries of this State of 

 Maine. The greatest industry in this State, the greatest busi- 

 ness in which our people engage, is the great business of edu- 

 cation. 



The object of this great educational system of ours, the 

 object of our support of this industry of education, I main- 

 tain, is the production of a high type of citizenship. That is 

 the reason why we are supporting a system of education, in 

 order that we may have the right kind of citizenship. And I 

 want to state to you just briefly three of the qualities which 

 I think we ought to aim for. 



In the first place I believe that this citizenship must be an 

 intelligent citizenship. I wonder if we realize that w^e are 

 trying here in this country the greatest experiment that has 

 ever been tried in the history of all the w^orld. We are trying 

 to see whether ninety millions of people, representing all races, 

 and all conditions of society, can govern themselves. You and 

 I both believe that this great experiment is to succeed, but I 

 say to you, my friends, tonight, that if this great experiment 

 is to succeed it will succeed on one, and on only one condition, 

 and that is that we shall have an intelligent citizenship. We 

 sometimes hear it said that it is very important in a democratic 

 form of government that we should have wise leadership. So 

 I say very likely it is important that we should have wise lead- 

 ership, but vastly more important is it that we should have a 

 common people able to do its own thinking, able to make up its 

 own mind, able to face and solve its own problems, able to stand 

 on its own feet. 



But it is not enough that it should be correctly intelligent 

 citizenship. It must likewise be responsible. We must culti- 

 vate in our body of citizenship a sense of personal responsi- 

 bility. We must have our boys and girls trained in the school 

 of responsibility. We must make them feel that they are 

 themselves to be responsible for the getting of things done, 

 and I feel that we ought to impress upon them through all the 

 days of their school life, a sense of this responsibility. But 

 these are not the main points that I want to make, because I 

 think the schools are doing these things very well. 



