Show MASSACHUSETTS Massachusetts is I a sterling State Out of a population of US0534G there arc 1Q2197 persons engaged in manufactures manu-factures There are 82621 engaged in making leather and shoes 77091 In building 15438 in clothing 9 < H I5 In food preparations 6S157 In machinery and metallic goods 0887 In paper and paper goods 327117 in textiles 21a74 on woolen goods and 61413 in other industries in-dustries In the learned professions of religion law and medicine there are 13000 persons For every Gl j t persons per-sons there Is one engaged In religious work For every SOU one la engaged In the law For every 101 one Is engaged in medicine There are eight places In that State wIth an aggregate population popula-tion of 3811 where is no preacher lawyer law-yer or doctor Mnsauchustts has been a ruling factor fac-tor in the United States from the first and wherever Mnssachurctts men aro found there IH always found push and energy and American patriotism Mas sachusettn bus not very productive soil audit has been a fight for a living and for superiority from the first And then a factor which has contributed very miich to the chpmclcr of Mnssa chusetts Is not mentioned by the statistician stat-istician That IH the men on thu coast who without hope of anything more than a small reward every year go out on the Grand Banks and fight the atorms and the waves for little cur goes of fish and every year when the roundup Is made the number of bonln lost and the number of crews that haY gone down to ddath are reported and the ilory Is tingle enough to give the men of castqrn Masaaojyigotty a acri owl cnatto mature < hIJIdjiQn pryum turely and further to nuilw the lUnilll obstacleswhich HM interposed Sn men i Uvc8 sqcm i > Imply a imtttor of course lobii jnct Sand foUght Tlien I Massachusetts from the first has been most tenacious in keeping her schools up to the highest point and to secure the education of a greater ratio of children than perhaps any oilier State And so tho little State only about one tenth the size of Utah has been a potential po-tential factor from the Very first In the government business Influence and directing force of the entire Republic |