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upon “graduates” 
_ perience on the large estates of Eng- 
land and Scotland. 
The course of the bill will be 
_ watched with interest. Without the 
‘provisions mentioned, the bill is of 
no interest or value to the industrial 
Ec tres or to the North Shore of the 
, © 8) nty. 
- PRESIDENT TREADWAY ON CITIZEN- 
a SHIP. 
:? President Treadway is giving ser- 
yice to the commonwealth in large 
- measure and his address at the Chris- 
tian Union hits a well directed blow 
at apathetic interest in governmental 
affairs. He said: 
“The state is a co-operative organ- 
ization of citizens. Many consider 
it an intangible something outside of 
us. This is wrong. Every man is a 
8 and each one an integral part. 
_ Citizenship means an industrial in- 
‘terest in the welfare of state and 
nation. We are stockholders in this 
corporation of the state. Governors 
and legislators are public _ servants, 
and to my mind unless they are im- 
_bued with this spirit of the servant of 
the public, they are of little value. 
The debt of Massachusetts was, in 
1900, $11,704,000; in I9I0, it was 
$20,340,000. The expenditures of the 
state were, in 1900 $7,764,000, and in 
1910 $13,521,000. Citizens should 
know, and it is their duty to inquire 
and find out, the reason for the in- 
crease. 
_ “You owe the state continued inter- 
est in state affairs. -Voting on elec- 
tion day is only one phase of your 
_ duty. You owe it to the state to in- 
ee yourself as to the fitness and 
character of the candidates. You 
owe it to the state to see that no leg- 
islation is enacted for any special 
class, and to keep informed upon the 
bills presented, that you may judge 
and study the problems under con- 
sideration.” 
Many of the striking evils of our 
government are due to the disinterest 
of its citizens in municipal, county or 
state affairs. It is pitiable the lack 
of concern which many citizens have 
in their business,—the running of the 
government. ‘To vote on election day 
and to think no more of our com- 
munity interest is altogether too true 
and characteristic. Mr. Treadway 
has done all a service in awakening 
public interest to the need. 
~ LorIMER AGAIN. 
The recent developments in the 
Lorimer Case indicates that the is- 
sue is not dead. Where there is 
smoke there is fire. Back of all the 
agitation.at Washington over the im- 
of schools of ex- 
peachment of Mr. Lorimer there is a 
“something” discreditable to the Sen- 
ator and his “friends.” The con- 
fessions of bribe takers, the death, or 
was it suicide, of a witness deepens 
the plot. The whole is a striking il- 
lustration of what Mr. Roosevelt said 
to the Colorado Legislature last Au- 
gust and published in his latest vol- 
ume, the New Nationalism: 
“You cannot afford to tolerate in 
your ranks the corrupt man, and the 
first duty of a constituency should be 
to see that its representative is not 
merely honest in the sense that he 
cannot be legally shown to be dis- 
honest, but that he is a dead straight 
man whom no one can think of as 
crooked. I do not want it to be praise 
to a man that he is honest. I want it 
to be an impossible supposition for a 
representative to be thought of as 
anything else. * * * You cannot af- 
ford not to have a man honest all 
the way through, because if he is not, 
you do not know quite where the 
breaking down will come.” 
The increasing evidence is con- 
vincing the public of some things if 
the case be never re-opened. ‘The 
wicked stand in slippery places.” 
New Curator OF PAINTINGS. 
The release of M. Jean Guiffrey, 
assistant curator of the Louvre 
Museum to become curator of. paint- 
ings of the Boston Museum for three 
years will form an art alliance with 
the Masters of the French School 
which will be mutually beneficial 
to France and America. The pri- 
vate subscription of $100,000 for 
two years will give M. Guiffrey avail- 
able funds for the purchase of new 
works. His aim to make the Museum 
the treasure house of American Art 
meets with the endorsement of the 
art world and the appreciation of the 
larger body of interested friends of 
the institution, the public. The Mu- 
seum is the pride of New England. 
Its halls have been the source of 
pleasure and admiration for years of 
skilled collectors, trained artists and 
just plain folks who love good “pic- 
” 
tures” and who are fascinated by the 
“curios” just because of their human 
interest. ‘The removal to the new 
building was epoch making and made 
possible the inauguration of the pres- 
ent policy for the term of years. 
Pusiic SPIRITED BEQUESTS. 
Mr. Gladstone said, ‘What is 
wrested from me _ by the grip of 
death I can in no sense be said to 
give.’ There is a measure of truth 
in this, but it does not take in to 
account the fact that there are many 
reasons why in life men cannot give 
which at death they have at their dis- 
posal by will. And such giving is 
worthy. The spirit of selfishness and 
thoughtlessness so often marks the 
wills of wealthy men it is a tonic just 
to read the bequests made by the late 
John Desmond of Manchester to the 
institutions of Manchester. Man- 
chester has been peculiarly fortunate 
in this way. To her has come the 
beautiful Memorial Chapel, the Me- 
morial Library Building as the gifts 
of public-spirited citizens. This has 
been unfortunately the reverse in the 
neighboring town of Beverly Farms. 
The inclusion of a clause in a will 
now providing for a memorial build- 
ing to house fittingly the present li- 
brary would be a most excellent op- 
portunity for money to do good. The 
Breeze expresses its good will to the 
Allen Post GAR, the Manchester 
Historical Society, the Horticultural 
Society, and to the Sacred Heart 
Church and its affiliated organiza- 
tions, all beneficial under the will of 
. Mr. Desmond. 
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS. 
The encouraging vote for bien- 
nial state elections on Monday ought 
to pass both branches of the legisla- 
ture and go to the Governor for his 
signature. While the party lines 
were not closely drawn, the vote be- 
ing 156 to 63, the opposition of Bos- 
ton Democracy is significant. A two- 
year term will work good in many 
ways, the economical reasons being 
the least of importance. It would 
spare the citizens of an annual po- 
litical turmoil, relieve the legislators 
of time destroying fence building for 
a second year and give them an op- 
portunity to formulate plans and pol- 
icies covering a term of two years. 
A one-year man hardly learns the 
methods of legislative work before 
his term ends. Districts are awak- 
ening to the fact that even legislators 
need training. Our North Shore rep- 
resentatives, MacDonald, Saltonstall 
and Knowles—voted in the affirma- 
tive and on the right side as usual. 
‘‘Sorry,’’ said the constable, “‘but 
T’ll have to arrest ye—you’ve been 
drivin’ along at the rate of fifty 
miles an hour.”’ 
‘“You are wrong, my friend,’’ said 
the driver. ‘‘I say I wasn’t and 
here’s a ten dollar bill that says I 
wasn’t.”’ 
‘All right,’’ returned the consta- 
ble, pocketing the money. ‘‘ With 
eleven to one against me I ain’t 
goin’ to subject the county to th’ 
expense of a trial.’’— Harper’s 
Weekly. 
