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it will remain a country town for a good many years to 

 come. 



That distinguished son of Massachusetts now at the head 

 of the statistical bureau was sent out to find out how many 

 governors and representatives and senators had been born 

 in New England. You will remember he found twenty- 

 nine governors of States born in New England ; thirty-two 

 senators ; eighty-four editors of daily papers ; while of the 

 generals in the army, five out of seven were born in New 

 Enijland. He found in the State Legislatures or holding 

 some official position in the States, in one year two hundred 

 and twenty born in New England, or sons of men born here. 

 He found, holding the most important positions as ministers 

 to other countries, five men born in Massachusetts. In the 

 city of Boston there are one hundred and eighty-four manu- 

 fiicturers carrying on the largest business, and out of the 

 one-hundred and eighty-four, one hundred and eight were 

 born in the interior of the State of Massachusetts. 



When you come to glance at what the sons of Massachu- 

 setts, bred on her farms, have done and are doing for the 

 world, the importance of cultivating them becomes at once 

 apparent. 



I have just returned from a visit to Georgia, Alabama 

 and South Carolina. I told those southern people that they 

 ought to know better than to give the ownership of their 

 new factories to Massachusetts men. They are, however, 

 glad to get capital from Massachusetts. I told them they 

 ought to be like Massachusetts men ; building their own 

 factories and keeping their money at home, and not send so 

 much to Massachusetts to pay interest. When you think 

 of the masses of people contributing their money from 

 Kansas, Texas and South Carolina as a tribute to the man- 

 hood of Massachusetts, and think how rich you are and 

 how the world looks to your capitol city as to a great 

 financial centre, then its financial importance will become 

 at once clear. 



Two years ago I went into the west, lecturing. In Iowa 

 I visited five colleges. Three out of the five had presidents 

 from Massachusetts, and the other two were sons of Massa- 

 chusetts men. At the head of the greatest institution in 



