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years the people in the west, every railroad in the west has been 

 waking up to this proposition. You who have been to Kansas 

 City will remember the sign right across the way from the big 

 railroad station, at night lighted up with electric lights, which 

 reads : "Come to the land of the Ozark, the land of the big red 

 apple." It has been advertised in magazines in this country and 

 in foreign countries "Come to the land of the Ozark, the land of 

 the big red apple," and you people of Maine have kept still when 

 you might have hollered a great deal louder, "The State of 

 Maine, the land of the big and the good red apple." What -is the 

 matter that you have not advertised it on the house-top and all 

 over the world? 



The best markets in all the world are in New England or very 

 close to it, and the next best markets are right across the water, 

 where we have ferry boats running at frequent intervals. The 

 men who are fishing for foreign markets must come right in by 

 your door to reach the seaboard and then go across, and they have 

 to pay a great big tax to the railroad when you and I don't. 



In and around the city of London there are more than six mil- 

 lion people who must buy all the food they consume, and as a very 

 large measure of English food products are imported, the farm- 

 ing lands of the eastern United States are nearer to them than 

 any other lands of cheap production in the world. It is a won- 

 derful opportunity for us not only in our fruit products but many 

 others, and if we fail to take advantage of it, it is our own fault 

 and not the fault of the situation. Now as to our own eastern 

 markets, as I have said before they are the best markets in the 

 world and we are the nearest to them of any fruit producers in 

 America. It gives us an opportunity to develop our fruits upon 

 the tree, plant or vine to their highest perfection and then market 

 them quickly. These eastern people not only have a taste for and 

 appreciation of our fruit, but have an ability to buy that is not 

 equalled by any people on the face of the globe. The recent cen- 

 sus shows that the deposits in New England savings banks are 

 far greater than in any other section of the country, and the 

 increase in deposits for the last five years has been greater than 

 in any other period of fifteen years. We can have our share in 

 this money if we only will. 



Let me tell you a little thing that came out of the World's Fair 

 at Chicago ten years ago. How many of you brought home the 



