The morning journal-courier., 1908-01-03
Governor of Massachusetts Se- lects Heroes from Among
 Sons of the State.
NOW MORE THAN PURITANS
Natives to be Found Wherever Virile Work is to be
 Done.

provoked more than 0rdlnary colnlheii' on account of its non-conyentlohal style. The following peroration reflects eloquently the intensity of Massachu- setts pride. Said Governor Guild III conclusion:
 Senators and Representatives;-Let us be true to our task The miner, the assayer, the shelter, all the workers who take gold from the ground that it may be added to the coinage of the world, do not concern themselves with the kind of national stamp which is later to be rut upon the product ot their labor. It is their business to pro duce pure gold that will ring true, no matter what nations stamp it may bear.
 Let us be true to our task. Debates in this historic building on this or that policy that ought to be pursued by our own or by foreign nations have not been of particular value to the United States or to the world, but legislation enacted here honestly and sincerely for Massachusetts has been the basis for legislation not only in other states, not only in the United States, but in other nations. It is our duty, our only duty, to produce good legislation for Massa- chusetts. If we 10 produce such legis- lation, we may find, as our predeces- sors have found, that in doing good work for Massachusetts we help not only in the nations work but in the worlds work.
 This year at Provincetown and at Gloucester, town, commonwealth and nation have commemorated the found- CTS of New England. Our institutions are fonded on the rock of their ideals. the construction must be our own. Not the blood of the Pilgrims only,-Hol- lander, Scottish, Irish and Venetian blood ran in the veins of those who at Provincetown extolled the Anglo Saxon origin of this commonwealth. In one sense Boston is no longer a Puritan capital. In one sense Massachusetts is no longer Puritan commonwealth.
 It Is a proof of national nobility that
 it's principles should attract the sup port of the active. the able, the aspir- ing, among all the complaining mil- lions of men, Caesar who stretched the Roman empires borders to their farth- est limit was not born in Rome. Was Trajan less a Roman because he was born in Spain? The victorious sailor who gave the flag of the United States a meaning among the navies of the world was not born in America Was Paul Jones less an American because he was born in Scotland? The great est soldier that ever led a French army to victory was not born in France Was Napoleon less Frenchman be- cause he was born in Corsica? The prime minister who set the crown oi the Indian empire upon the head of ar English queen was of that tragic race without a country. Was Disraeli less an Englishman because he was born Jew?
 So we, Puritan In origin, arc no long CT Puritan alones Nor is this Massa chusetts of ours unworthy the Massa. chusetts of Andrew and Sumner, oi
 Hancock and Adams, of Endicott an, Winthrop
 There was a time when the bes brains of Massachusetts strained tC the task of escaping the laws tha' parliament made for us. To-day liar. yard alumni with Massachusetts train. ing sit at Westminster to make law. for England. Our ancestors knew China but as the mysterious country which the English poet coupled witt Peru as the two opposite limits of the earth. Within our own generation wt have seen a soldier from Salem al the head of a Chinese army save Chin; from anarchy for law and order. Ev cry visitor to our executive chamber passes the picture figure of the Cam bridge diplomat who made a place fol China at the council table of the na l tions.
 A half dozen desperate sailors f1nl l forth their lives to the risk of drown ing and explosion with Hobson at San
 tiago. One of them is a boy from Low l ell.
 Cuba and the Philippines bring upo | the United States new and untricd re responsibilities. The one man who il 1 both West Indies and East Indies i
 a success in the field, in diplomacy, i civil government, is a Massachusett! soldier.
 The vatican seeks pioneer to tran sact the important and delicate mis sion of establishing necessary privi leges at Tokio. Among the prelates Q the world the ablest and the Attest fo the task is found to be a Massachu setts clergyman.
 The most venerable association O scholars in France after seclusion o centuries seek light for the first tim, on the development of the languagt and letters which belong to us as wei as to the birthplace of Chaucer ant Shakespeare. The authority they wei. come is the Massachusetts historian of American literature.
 Czar and Mkado seek to end a con test by land and sea that shakes eh, C speaker of the Massachusetts house Q representatives.
 Shall we concern ourselves with tn place from which the ancestors o these men came, whether the blood O their forefathers was English or Iris or French or Hollander or German As well claim Abraham Lincoln a merely of Massachusetts because hi ancestors came from Hingham. 1 Let us act that we may be worth, | of those who have gone before us, bu l let us exult that to-day the men c Massachusetts, men of our own ney and splendid race, the American race not only uphold the best ideals an lofty purpose of the Puritan common
 wealth of Massachusetts, but are ex i tending the name, the influence, tn honor of the American commonwealt of Massachusetts to spheres beyon