The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-07-16

ed to the development of American institutions
In peace or war, in education business, IN all
the different realms of national activity, New Eng
lands sons have been in the forefront and the his
tory of the country its every page bears hitting
testimony to their worth and their deeds Will the
story be the same fifty years from now! We hope
So and we have no doubt that it will be so; but
il cannot be accomplished by the present and next
generation utilizing their time in star gazing and
sitting idly by while the procession moves on. Ma
ture has bountifully blessed every part OF our
country with riches IN soil far more abundanty
than she has New England. You can put the spade
In any part of the virgin soil of the United States
west of New England and nature will respond with
immemnse acreages of wheat, corn and oats, or
cereal products of some kind while you cannot ull-
cover foot of earth with the pick without the eye
being dazzled with mineral products of every kind
and description. The natural wealth OF the south
rn and southwestern states this year IN cereal pro-
duets and cotton will easily amount to more than
billion dollars, while New Englands sterile soil
will yield the merest pittance. The money OF the
capitalist goes where certain returns are assured
and where the dividends with the least
resistance and the most solid foundation IN tut
ures. 1t is far apt TO go into southern cotton
mills. with the raw material at the doors and less
hostile labor legislation than it is here IN New
England.
These and many other things must be taken in
TO consideration by the men and women of the
Catholic church when figuring New Englands
future There is not enough of the old New Eng
land blood to go around if this was found to be
necessary and we do not think that it is, and the
New England of twenty-five years from now will
be made or unmade by the school-boys and school
girls OF today, seventy-ve per cent of whom came
from stock born on the other side of the water If
those boys and girls take advantage of the oppor-
tunities that lie at their door, New Engands fut-
a7" What with Harvard college, with
Its splendid endowment, running into millions
every year (the best educational institution in the
world today, the Institute of Technology, which
has sent into the world the best technically
men; Yale college, the Clark Institute at Worches-
ter the Conservatory of Music at Boston, Boston
college, Holy Cross college, Brown University, Rad
elitfe college Dartsmouth college, Wellesley col
Iege, Bowdon college, Williams college, the Manual
other colleges and high Schools the best in the
worlds history right in the heart of the great
Catholic population, open to the boys and girls and
young men and young women of today, whose fault |
Wlll II be if the New England of twenty-five years
from now-Catholic 10 the core as it viii be-will |
not lead the world in everything that pertains to
the business well as in the humanitarian point
of view.
The men who came from the other side have
given splendid results, considering their equip
ment. What will their sons and daughters do!
1t Is on their shoulders the responsibility rests and
We have faith that with the proper direction and
The right kind of leadership result will follow The
men of no race and the people OF no faith have
ever enjoyed better opportunity. Let us have
capable captains and cannot fail. Leadership
IS what want and what we must have