The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-07

QoItaES Der ron III 4eSU 10 @A4ELg g-aAFS dollars in I9oo, and to about thirty dol lars in 1905. The amount paid for la boF in this industry, in 1900. was over eight million dollars.
 In the manufacture of the finer class of writing papers New England has no serious rival. In 1909 Massachusetts alone produced seventy-one per cent of the entire output of those papers in the United States.
 Great building industries have grown up within the last few years at Bath, Maine, and at New London, and Quincy Point on Massachusetts Bay.
 Boston has built up very large di- rect passenger and freight traffic with the Mediterranean ports. often landing at her docks more than a thousand inn migrants week. Her coastwise trade, always large, even surpassing that of New York, is rapidly increasing. She also has a prosperous traffic, employ ing many ships and a large capital, in the importation of tropical fruits from the West Indies and Central America, and in the exportation of ice to tropi- cal countries. Indeed, BostOn's exports increased, inthe decade 1891 to 1901, more than sixty per cent.
 The total value of New England's in dustrial products increased from A,- 106,0O0,OO0 in 1880 to $1,S 100000 in 1900, growth of more than sixty-three per cent The annual wages paid for la bor, in this product, has increased in the same time from S226, 1000 to $42O,- 100000, or nearly one hundred per cent. Dwindling industries, indeed! What section of this country or of any coun- try or equal size, has shown greater progress or a greater per capita ener- gy?
 Doubtless New England's industrial success is, in no small degree, due to a plentiful supply of labor and capital, immense and widely distributed water power highly developed transportation facilities by rail and by water, untram- meled interstate commerce; to the libe- ral encouragement of technical educa- tion and manual training; to the in- vention and adaptation of mechanical Improvements and methods; and the talent and sagacity of her people which has foreseen when, where and how capital might be most proftably en- ployed, increased it's effectiveness and secured the best markets.
 The patent office reports show that 6 very large proportion of the machines which have done so muh to transform our industrial conditions are the inven- tions of New England men.
 Tho Eo z s,a z tion and indUstry-of Howe, the inven- tor of the sewing machine; of Bigelow, the pioneer in carpet weaving; of Cor ham, the great silverware artist of Providence; of Bell, the inventor of the telephone; of Appleton, of American watch fame; of Seth Thomas, the early promoter of the American clock indus try; of Goodyear, the pioneer in the boot and shoe industry and inventor of rubber goods; of Cheney, of the vast New England silk industry, has not departed, nor is it even diminishing. The great industries founded or fos- tereed by thm were never more pros porous than to-day.
 New England has had an influence no less powerful upon the new citizens who have come in to take the place of those whoashaxa gone e-West-syIt-is-tr true that a large proportion of the factory population is of foreign birth or paren- tage, but to a considerable extent these have adopted New England customs and ideals and have been more readily assimilated than in other regions, Contrast the peaceful, laborious, home loving factory hands of the Flrence silk mills with the anarchistic opera tives in the, same line of manufacture at Paterson, New Jersey. There have been strikes in New England, but no such murderous outbreaks as in Illi- nois, Pennsylvania or Colorado. A re- cent writer, who has made study of the subject, says of the Itaian emil grants who are setting on the poorer and unoccupied ands in Massachusetts, that ''they work early and late, have the same habits of thrift and industry as the early New England settlers, send their children to the public schools and are ts anxious to educate them and put them forward in the world as the early settlers on these lands" New England and the south need millions more of these sturdy em- igrants." The sam outcry is made eagainst these settlers that was made against the sturdy Scandinavians and Germans who came to our central northwestern states fifty years ago. These were willing and anxious to work, accustomed to low standard of living at home They have redeemed the wild lands and made the country blossom like rose. Their descendants are now recognized as among our best citizens. The assimilation of foreign ers by this country is one of the mar vels of history, and New England, through her schools, libraries, lectures, mission and settlement work can teach many other sections needed lessons in the art of making Americans.
 The farmers of New England may no longer be able to compete with those upon the broad plains and in the fer tile valleys of the northwest but, to- day, the tobacco crop of small sec tion of New England is of greater com mercial value than the entire cotton crop of Georgia, or the wheat crop of Illinois. Her dairy products, amount ing to fifteen thousand dollars in 1903, show an increase of two hundred and fifty per cent. in ten years and are un-