Show DECADENCE C OF O EW ENGLAND D DA A dispatch from om Ottawa Ont Oat gives gle the lie th following extract from tram a I letter leter written by y lion Hon David Mills Canadian minister of ot justice now nets in England Vo Ve 0 did ld not nt enter Massachusetts I much before reaching Lowell What Impresses ses Itself upon the traveler Is tho the character of or agriculture In these states It Is such Suds us its IS I remember In Ontario Cu year ago ngo Farming I Is In Its 18 decadence I saw some somo sections covered with wih for forest forest est elt that I 1 am al sure cure must have been cleared land I lani a I century ago so that feel teel sure SUCO there thero Is far fur less land hand In New Nel England cultivated now than there was 50 years ago ngo IfO I noticed tho the towns wa waran ton ran through had very dwelling houses all well telI wel pointed painted pain led and nil all ni looked new The people are living mostly by some somo handicraft of the mo mno kind They The dont like farm farmIng farmIng farming Ing they take no Interest Iller In It I and de do derive derho dodye rive dye no enjoyment from rein It I The New Nev Nel England people are upon the soil goll but butare bu butare are aro not of lt It I They obvIously as its ni much OH aig I their women do having children and all were iere n for tor the thu Incapable 1 7 among them and the time foreigners who have taken up their residence among thorn thom there Were would l h b j neither children born nor fields fie l cul voted at ld If left lef to themselves tIm the exist existence ence erice of ot a n t of ot t 11 Pilgrim fathers will wi be he as ns rare ns 08 a n great auk and tho the race Is 18 share th the fate or ot orthe the he dodo This Th Is must bo be le a I very vel serious sellous problem for tor the States would not nol Increase In population and after a I alimo limo limo their numbers nUmb rs would begin to dim There Thore is obviously something very ver wrong with wili a n people who under conditions so favorable have such Buch small JI families The Tho United States wo we woman 0 man docs doo not realize her duty dUI to Gou Gea mind her country ami RII go so thinks much mulch more of her own pleasure than she does tl e of oC the thue responsibilities es which the th Creator has hns Imposed Impose upon her |