The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1882-11-01

names were OF Ieutonic origin. This i.
not the case In Boston, where nearly ali
the names on the signs are English
was much impressed by this fact. Not
only were these English names in the
majority on the leading business streets,
but out in the suburbs the same tbipg
was seen. Even the barbers are Amer.
leans in most cases. These facts have
for me a deal of significance. They
show that in New England alone does
the native American of British extrar-
tiOn discover strength enough to hold
his own against the thrifty German. l
have noticed that the advertisements in
/ the country papers of New England are
full of English names. II is not to be
wondered at that the German, whose
store and dwelling are in the same
house, whose partner is his wife. and
whose clerks are his sons and daughters.
shouldgraduallY supplant our American
merchants, who keep up two establish
ments, store and a residence, and
never think Of employing their children
as clerks. could name certain
Southern city in which the Germans, or
at least men of German extraction.
have driven the Americans almost com
pletely out of the business field. the re-
tail trade having been virtually aban-
doned to them.
When | told Boston friend that
Boston was the most Thoroughly English
city had ever seen, he laughed me to
scorn. why man." he exclaimed, |
there are 150, 900 Irish voters in Bos-
ton they rule this town" The en-
phasis he laid on ''rule" was marked. |
What feeling there is throughout the
Eastern States against the Irish ! Ny |
friend to the contrary Notwithstanding, |
l still insist that the signs in Boston do
indicate q larger preponderance of
Americans in business than in any other
city on the Atlantic coast, if not in the
country at large.
Finally, it must be said of the Bos-
tonlans that they love their city with
devotion equalled only by the love the
men Of the Middle Ages bore their cities,
when cities were States, rs Venice, for
example. Proof of their affection is
shown in many ways, particularly in
the liberality of subscriptions for works
of art and public improvement. Not
unfrequently double the sum needed is
the surplus going to other
and adornments not at
first contemplated. 1t is said by those :
in position to know that the Bostonian
loves his city more than his State. If |
he loves one he will most certainly love
.he other. Pride in Massachusetts he
cannot fail to have, as one may see who
visits the statehouse Relics of the
Revolution and of the late war are a
housed there with the greatest care and q
ealously guarded from the profane touch :
II the vulgar. This love and pride for i
State and city should be bond of union G
between the people of Massachusetts, 5
nd our own people in Carolina and Vir- a
,inia. | believe there is some such Il
,ond. In years to come, when there a
hall be new alignment of parties and q
ections, we shall discover that the in G
titutions of the Atlantic States from 3
1aine to Florida have much in common. a
hey are older, in a sense more civilized, I
lower, more conservative, more Euro
ean. The peculiar distinctive, impetu- '
us American is being developed on the \
ther side of the Appalachian chain in h
he great basin of the Mississippi. AS ri
he years go on he will be more and
lore differentiated from his country h
zen on this side of the Alleghanies II
ill have ideas, aims, ambitions, and, v
bove all, power of his own, which "
ill assert itself, perhaps not altogether a,
0 the liking of the Atlantic coast peo- m
le. T
But that is faraway thing. A thing if
nat is not far away is the longing look IL
outward OH the part of young Bos- W
)nians with whom talked. Evidently
ur Southern exhibits had impressed
hem. What more natural? ? Twenty
ears ago the South proved an FL Dora
0 to thousands of Yankee youth it Ic
i'll prove so again in much less than I'll
genty years This is the lesson of the IL
econd annual fair of the New England NJ
lstitute to the New Englander him oT or
Elf; the lesson to ourselves is to see re
nat the lions share of the new devel- b,
pment of the South falls to dwellers hi
4 the soil. We are masters Of our pc
otton mills let us be masters Of all bl
ther mills, factories and industries that n, n,
oring up in our midst. Above all, let !, H.
5 not repeat our old folly in a new re
'rm by confning ourselves to the man hi
facture of cotton alone. Diversity in af
ustry in the mills as well as in the dl
elds. Grow everything and make a ~
we can-that should be our n
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