Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1915-08-13
GOVERNORS WILL
SEE NEW ENGLAND
To Tour Both Northern and Southern
Section.

A conference of governors Of all
the states Is to be held at Boston
from the 9th to the 2sth of this
month when northern and southern
New England will be visited, and the
governors will have a chance to get
in touch with the people of these sec
tions as well as with those of the
northern section of New England. The
conference means much to the people
Of the states to be visited for the ideas
obtained by the governors will dis
prove some popular fallacies about
people and their business that have
obtained because they have been
stated and repeated until they are be-
lieved. New England needs to get in
touch with public sentiment elsewhere
for in the race for business and for
prosperity New England does not take
back seat with the rest of the
United States when it has a square
deal That it has not always had.
The south and the west and the
middle west have been found stand
ing together in the congress of the
New Englanders. We of New England
need to show the rest OF the country
what we are and what we have and
what we propose to do and to have.
That viii be gain for New England
and for every business in II. Give
Tic NIS1lOIS IGdI hnOWlSQSe Oh our
conditions and let them consider them.
We have no fear Of what the result
will be-
The Boston Advertiser puts it this
way: For years. in remote sections,
the idea has been accepted as gospel
truth that New England is a spot
where wealthy men sit on their money
bags and count enormous profits gain
ed by exploiting the rest of the coun-
try; that our mills earn annual divi-
dends anywhere from Is to 45 per cent
a year; that our railroads are run by
less disregard for safety; that we are
opposed to every form Of real, popu-
lar government, and that we are phar-
isaical, narrow-minded, intolerant of
real progress or liberal ideas; that
we are self-sufhcient, greedy of spe-
fairly wrung from the rest Of the
country, ever since the Civil war. So
bitter has this sentiment been that
we have suffered from 1t grievously,
especially at Washington of late. Bus
mess legislation has Disseminated
tration has wen nigh succeeded in
wrecking our great railroad systems
by persistent and indensible persecu-
ton. So long as this misrepresenta-
ton, this unworthy prejudice against
this section continues in the popu-
New England industries must be un-
der totally unfair handicap. This is
no mere matter Of dollars and cents;
it is a question Of a great public
opinion; of sectional misunderstood
ings."
As the opening wedge In meeting
prejudice with fact, misrepresentation
with personal disproof, antagonism
with complete friendliness, what bet
ter opportunity can there be than this
trip, favored by Governor Walsh, and
by all the representatives Of our lead
ing New England industries?
Let the governors Of remote states
see for themselves under what handi-
caps our railroads, our mills, all our
industries have worked in recent
years, under what government hoetil-
fly, and then see what our great ar
mics Of wage eaxners have done in
the face of such handicaps. What
story viii they have to tell when they
go back home? Can any man doubt
that 1t will help New England in the
near future?