, 1921-07-22

beans cannery and a Goldfish industry, Is not agreed
to by the ~forty-two other states The New England
tail has undertaken TO wag the United states oos'
It's too large a contract
New England desires TO say just what the law OF
the land shall be upon all important subjects and m
sistS on fixing the tariff schedules and designating TIE
free list in the tariff measure. Whatever she con-
siders sacred must be duly protected and what she has
no special interest in. regardless Of how II aheets
other sections, must be free Having a large coast
line and many harbors and ports, and II being not
over ten minutes walk to the seacoast from any point
in her territory, she has developed a great antagon-
ism TO the proposed ST. Lawrence waterway improve
ment connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic
ocean forming an outlet for a larger and richer ter
ritory than these hide-bound Yankees ever saw or
heard about. Because little old selfish New England
gets no direct benefit she is blind to the possibility OF
benefit to anybody else. New England simply thinks
in terms of New England.
The Boston Transcript which very correctly re-
fleets New England opinion, speaking of the project
concludes a long editorial in this Enthusiastically
narrow New England fashion;
at is probable that the New England representa-
tives of tbs tour of inspection which has now begun
will see a great deal to arouse their interest and even
their enthusiasm, but it is hard to understand how
they can discover in it any prospect of direct advan-
tage to our section. Taking it altogether, II appears
to be a rather evident scheme for getting away from
New England. II successful, it could hardly fail to
diminish the relative importance of the railways which
are our main dependence in the maintenance of our
commercial importance. As far as power is con-
eerned, We have that in abundance within our own
limits, more readily accessible than If generated IN
the st. Lawrence valley. We may hope that the New
England delegates on this expedition will have a good
time, but 1t is TO be expected that they will require
to be shown before giving the project their unquali-
fed Endorsement"
1t would seem to be about time a select committee
from the north. south and west led little old New Eng
land to the woodshed and with a stout oaken barrel
stave impressed upon her understanding that selfish
ness is a sin, not TO be tolerated in the family; and il
she could not DO nice about dividing up the candy
with the rest Of her sisters, without making faces or
pouting, she would have to be locked in the dark
closet and sent to bed without any supper.
II New England would break away from the mo-
notony Of her dinky seaside resorts and spend a sum
mer touring the wide spaces of the west she would
learn of other interests, of possibly equal Importance
to a factory where shoddy pants material is made
and sold for virgin WOOL She could also learn that
her whole New England territory, around which she
believes the earth and all the other planets revoive,
could be gathered up and dropped into Jackson's Hole
without even making one little "plunk"; and Mr..
Jackson would never know that anything had hap
pened to his hole.