18 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



THE MODEL PRODUCTIVE STATE. 



An Address before the Worcester Society. 



BY ALEXANDER H. BULLOCK. 



The great and thoughtful poet, whose life had witnessed 

 alternately the tranquillity and the convulsion of nations, has 

 passed down to us in beauty of language the acknowledged 

 proverb — 



— " peace hath her victories 

 No less renowned than war." 



It is to the conteraplatiou of these that the season and the 

 occasion invite us. At a time when the strains of martial music 

 and the tramp of armed men are the sounds that most interest 

 us, it is well that we liave assembled to celebrate the achieve- 

 ments of labor and the useful arts, without which, fully appre- 

 ciated and vigorously prosecuted, we should be unable to 

 carry on war with success or to retain the lustre of our arms. 

 Neglecting our internal resources, omitting to develop and 

 strengthen the State as an industrial power, we should be 

 without the martial spirit and without the ability effectively to 

 defend the goveriunent. The great master of Europe, the first 

 Napoleon, when he was levying fearful conscriptions upon his 

 empire to bear her victorious eagles over the Rhine, was almost 

 equally intent on encouraging and stimulating her industry at 

 home, — thus holding good alike the resources of his country 

 and the patriotic affections of his countrymen. Massachusetts 

 does well to imitate the example. This society has done well, 

 if to the maxim, honored by time, — in peace, prepare for war — 

 it has not forgotten to add as the counterpart, — in war, still 

 cultivate the arts of peace. 



That which would now be regarded as the ideal of a pro- 

 ductive State, cannot be found in any of the conceptions or in 

 any of the realizations of the past. In all the active elements 



