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duties, to have grappled with this subject, I would have 

 enjoyed this hour because on the verge of it now I get 

 hints of magnificent things I should love to utter on an 

 occasion like this. 



What kind of men have been made in New England? 

 New Ens^land has in the United States Senate now sixteen 

 Senators, while one State twice as large as the whole of 

 New England has only two. The proportion of her in- 

 fluence in all the aft'airs of the United States is equally 

 great. If 3'ou look back to the history of 1856-74, you 

 will find that New England has sent out its men into all 

 the great enterprises in the northern, middle and western 

 States. The migration from the country towns has also 

 come to Westfield, Springfield, Worcester, Boston and 

 Salem. I have only time to hint at these points. There 

 are sitting here people of Westfield, who were born here, 

 who can count by the score men all around them now in 

 the manufacturing business, and men who are now control- 

 lino; the affairs of Westfield, who were born in some interior 

 country town not far away. Their influence on Massachu- 

 setts is only a hint of their value made to the Board of 

 Agriculture. The Board should see that the right kind 

 of men are raised in the country. But these boundaries 

 are too small between Connecticut and New Hampshire, be- 

 tween the Atlantic Ocean and the Hudson River. They are 

 too small for the real Massachusetts. Massachusetts reaches 

 out to the Pacific and way across the ocean, and has her men 

 now fighting in the Philippines, where New England is lead- 

 ing our armies and navies. There are in the Senate of the 

 United States fourteen men who were born on Massachu- 

 setts soil, and twenty-seven men born in Massachusetts are 

 in the National House of Representatives representing other 

 States. There are forty-one members of the United States 

 Legislature who were born on Massachusetts soil or are 

 sons of men born on her soil. When we think how wide is 

 her influence, how great is her power and how national her 

 force, we cannot over-estimate the importance of raising the 

 right kind of men. 



Westfield was a country town a while ago. You would 

 be ashamed to say it is a country town now. Yet I hope 



