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March 3, 1911. Number 9 
Volume 9 
The Town Meeting. 
There is a great day coming for 
Manchester when her citizens will 
meet next Monday— March 6 —to 
discuss the common problems of 
Town Business. It is a_ privilege 
which has come to us as the result 
of the thought and work of other 
generations of men. Even yet the 
problem of self-government has not 
been fully solved. The experience 
of the past has taught the greatest 
- minds that the purest form of democ- 
racy is nossible in a Town Govern- 
ment. It is unhampered by the rep- 
resentative government of the cities, 
for each man has the opportunity to 
be heard in defense or in opposition 
to any provosed legislation. A voter 
in a town ean say what he wants to 
say and say it so everyone can hear. 
The opportunities and incentives to 
good government in a town are im- 
perative. 
The voters of the town of Man- 
chester may be depended upon to 
avail themselves of their privilege 
and duty to vote. Publie opinion 
has advanced in the last few years to 
such a marked degree that it cannot 
endure without rebuke the apathetic 
American who has not energy 
enough to redeem his franchise. 
There will be an unusually large vote 
polled. The common sense of the 
town may be depended upon to as- 
sert itself so that each voter will be 
governed by his intelligence and de- 
votion to the public weal in his vot- 
ing and will be uninfluenced by his 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
own or anyone else’s narrow, person- 
al and selfish motives. 
The Breeze does not desire nor 
does it have the intention of favor- 
ing any one man or group of men. 
Our interest is in the good of the 
town first, and her work and _ in- 
dividuals, and politics of the high 
grade afterwards. 
There are three important ques- 
tions which search the mind of the 
voter: first, is the candidate honest 
in his endeavor to serve the com- 
munity, or is he influenced by false 
notions of place and _ preferment. 
Second, is he competent to exercise: 
the duties to which he is elected. 
Finally, has he that soul quality, 
stamina, which will give him the 
courage to execute the dictates of 
his conscience and all of the appar- 
ent demands of the people from that 
office. A man must be more than 
honest, he must be competent. The 
competency must be more than mere 
competency of intellect and vision 
and must influence the will and give 
the man backbone to execute the 
honest convictions of an enlightened 
mind. If such men are elected the 
affairs of our town will be conducted 
with honor and sincerity. Men who 
satisfy this examination can be trust- 
ed to execute the will of the people. 
The trouble with any government 
is vacillation, uncertainty, hesi- 
taney, laissez faire. If Manchester 
will vote for broad minded, intelli- 
gent men the problems will be 
solved one by one and the political 
atmosphere will become wholesome. 
A determined fight for good all 
around men will win. A reform bill- 
et is usually unsuccessful because of 
its one-sided efforts before and after 
election. It is this which arouses 
discontent and unrest. Manchester 
does not need reformers; what she 
needs is level-headed men to express 
clearly, and without fear their con- 
victions. Such men and only such 
men can solve our problems. Man- 
chester wants a clean, honest, 
straight-forward government with a 
careful business administration. She 
ean have it if she will. She shall 
have it, for her voters will rise from 
their lethargy and avail themselves 
of their franchise privileges and be 
heard in the discussion of publie af- 
fairs for the good of the whole. 
““To take part in the government 
of the country and to talk about it 
is the most important business and 
as it were the only pleasure that an 
| -. G E. WILLMONTON ... 
| Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
SCHOOL AND UNION STS., MANCHESTER 
American knows,.’’ So let it be! 
Willmonton’s Agency 
OLD SOUTHBLDG., BOSTOR 
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The man who buys an America: 
flag and spreads it to the morning! 
breeze with religious punctiliousnes | 
on flag days, and who does not have 
the interests and the well being o 
the community sufficiently at hear 
to vote honestly and without preju- | 
dice, is a patriotic hypocrite ur 
worthy of the inherited blessings 
which have come to him from the 
self-sacrificing struggles of the brave 
men who fought for, and bequeathed 
to us, this great republic. 
The Church Movement in Beverly 
to stimulate church attendance 
should be productive of good results. 
This is an unfavorable time of year 
on the North Shore and everyone 
should loyally recognize their re- 
sponsibility as well as their privi- 
lege. The poet, Oliver Wendell 
Holmes, a regular attendant of the 
Beverly Farms Baptist church used 
to say that there was a little flower 
called Reverence in his flower gar- 
den that needed watering about onee 
every week. You will do well to at- 
tend next week so that the parish 
priests and the ministers will find in 
the church larger numbers of de- 
voted worshipful attendants. It is 
proverbial that a churehless town is — 
a living disgrace. If the interests of — 
the church in your community de-— 
pended on you how well would ey 
be sustained ? 7 
hesitate to pass Chapman’s Corner — 
in its financial campaign. Beverly — 
Farms would have felt slighted if it 
had not. The generous response 
that was made was commendable. It E 
is not an unreasonable request to 
make of its board of managements — 
that representation be given this 
Ward on its board of directors. 
There are excellent men who would 
serve with honor to the hoard and 
to the district. The Breeze suggests 
to them such men as Elmer Standley, © 
Howard A. Doane, J. Albert May- 
berry, or, among the younger men, 
Frank Preston or Rept. Herman 
MacDonald. In the management of 
the coming year this district ought 
to be represented. 
The YMCA of Beverly. did: not 
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The water question is not so seri- 
ous at Beverly Farms as it was last 
summer. Your attention is ealled to 
an article in another column on the 
water situation. 
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS 
REAL ESTATE 
Mortgages, Loans, Summer House 
for Rent. ‘ : Tel e@ . 
