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the Pacific coast, and this chmate is incomparably better than 

 any cHmate I have found in any other part of the country. 

 (Applause.) There are more perfect days in a year here in 

 the Connecticut valley than in any other part of the country 

 I ever lived in. (Applause.) Out there the seasons are on a 

 sort of a dead level, you get awful tired of it, you get awful 

 tired of the rain, and then you get awful tired of the long, hot 

 dry, dusty summer, when there is no rain you long for a 

 change. You know Alark Twain said that New England 

 hadn't any climate. — just had samples. Well, I am mighty 

 glad of the samples. I had rather live here in New England's 

 sample climate than to live out there wdiere they have a climate 

 of which they boast. And if you go out there to live, you 

 will get to longing for a good, snappy cold winter. You would 

 long for the coming of spring and the first bluebird's note, 

 when you could see the bursting of the buds on the fruit trees, 

 and you go out through the orchard and smell the signs of 

 beautiful spring; you would long for the good sizzling hot 

 summer, in which you would have a good thunder shower to 

 break up the monotony; you would long for one of our Indian 

 Summer falls, and then you would be glad to have things sort 

 of close up and go to sleep, and take it a little easier, while you 

 enjoy the fruits of a good New England home, and a well- 

 stored cellar in a good old New England winter. (Applause.) 

 I say that from experience. Don't be beguiled by what you 

 read in the circulars and newspapers. 



Then there is a lot of talk about money-making in those 

 fruit regions. There is a good deal of money to be made out 

 there, and some make a good deal of money, but there are 

 lots of people who fail altogether. It is a fierce competition, 

 it requires a good deal of capital, no end of nerve and a 

 whole lot of brass. There is an unscrupulous competition, a 

 fierceness of competition of which you know very little, and 

 have very little experience with here in New England. 



(Picking up apple from a basket on the table.) Now, 

 taking all things and comparing one against the other. I have 

 never seen anv handsomer fruit in all the great Northwest 



