Show GOV av ANDR andrev B NY ON sew NEW NEW ENG ENG t LAND lj gov dov andrew delivered an address a at the N ew england fair in in springfield n 9 held heid mass tk calsing ig I 1 for lifs ilis his s subject ab the character and the resources of new england here are some passages from a report by the springfield union SF S f I 1 Bullot ln 1 I 1 statistics IN A NUTSHELL odtus let us remember for a moment t the exter external nhi uhl picture gone Q as ey england as ahe ghe presents herself to cheye he eye 1 odthe of the economist and the eurist comprising the six gix states tates or commonwealths oplaine of maine f itjen w hamp shire vermont massachusetts rhode island and ind mr her area coverd covers covers something more than square miles or ne nearly birly 40 of acres of surre surface of ot these acres maine possesses of 0 hach only 5 acres are reckoned by the census of 1860 1960 as land included in farms while 4 again a i 1 11 0 of f that number but are cia classed 1 4 11 with improved lands 11 new hamd Hamp hampshire shine contains 53 5 acres her farms including aeres acres ac res nes while her improved lands fare are but a aeres acres cr es yermont vermont contains 01 tams at at U a area ea of 6 53 53 aes 11 Cs 1 of are reckoned as lands tn in fabii farms buda ieh leh quantity ta eoin eoln re returned ne asunde as under rim improvement ement massachusetts I 1 as s ac achu covers a sur surface of 49 92 0 00 I 1 acres of which 3 are ine inc included lud iud e d in farms while b but t acres are classed among improved lands rhode island possesses acres of farms out butof of her hen acres of butof of these thesel aeres acres only are reeka recka reckoned lied tied as improved lands connecticut has 2 NO acres with farms to the extent of 1263 1260 but her improved lands are stated at 1 acres t thus of the whole area of new england only aeres acres agresor or three and five tenths per pent rent of her surface hav have e yet been brought within the category af pf improved land with a population of 3 13 persons on a soil reputed to be sterile in a climate often styled unkind new england had in 1860 accumulated mu an art aggregate of wealth invested in iii her lands railroads mills ships and tho thel various products of in gennity and taste which indicate the industry and wealth of a highly cultivated 1 vate dAnd and favored people amounting in in value valre not less than while she has contributed according to the latest census of her sons soup and daughters native to her soil to s swell seli seii vell tho the populations of other common i wealthy outside of new england and has bas invested of her ear ean earnings pings hs she has bas scattered her children in every state metate on olevery every waterfall and in every inart mart and enterprise of ok industry NEW EV ENGLAND ANGLAND fc th llo lio needlewoman needle needie nee nep woman by the dom hearth or in the shops whore labor aiso a I 1 iso clates elates with capital aided bythe by sewing I 1 machine macene one of the last b best besl st gifts mechanical invention to women if not to ma mend athe the weaver by the side of her car carpet pe floom loom mitch which seems to think as well as work vork and which almost tar tae talks the shoe shoemaker malier maller pegging a boot at a blaw the tho labor laborer pr who nilis fills his gravel car ear by two stokes of a steam shovel and u upsets sets bets it if by a turn of his handtke hand the husbandman husband who mows and rakes his hay and reaps and threshes thrashes th and ond measures out his golden grain by the agencies of cunning mechanisms almost without fatigue fati gUR are only a few of the thousand illustrations of how the human will and tile the immortal intelligence of the intellect bridging over the gulf which lies between tha the boundaries of matter and mind are vindicating the divinely given mastership of man over all the things which god lia ha on earth nay minore more than that for fr the things invisible ard and impalpable existing as hidden forces in the vast abyss of nature caloric and steam and electricity and magnetism and light itself the mysteries of sciences so wonderful and august that they seem to tread celestial spheres and to sweep the mind bewildered by the contemplation far oni off beyond the domain of knowledge or of reason these all these famed and allured lured to human uses are familiar spirits by whose means a thousand miracles are wrought without amazement to the beholder and with little consciousness of our own how hoty nearly are we ire brought to the contemplation of the very thoughts of deity those winged horses harn barn harnessed essed to the plow the loom the travel travella traveling ln car carrying burdens crushing ores hammering granite and iron or weaving delicate tissues for ornament or luxury or flashing intelligence by invisible magic are daily dally d ail all y augmenting in number and power though they had long since added mechanical forces to the industrial streng strength tit til of our new england equivalent to that of many millions of men c EDUCATION iol lol 1 f if there 1 is S au aught h t which men deem radi radl radically radicalism calis calls in or they le Y fear as dangerous speculation in I 1 our theology or our politics I 1 call mankind bobear to bear witness that there phere is no child so 0 o humble that he may inay iu not lot lof be taught an in all tilo the learning of the fhe schools no citizen so poor that he may not aspire to any of the towards rewards of mentar honorable exertion not one so weak as to fall below the equal protea tion of equal laws nor one so lofty as to challenge their restraints no church or bishop able abie to impose creed or ritual on the unconvinced conscience no peaceful pious ious lous worship which is unprotected ba state e thus liberty stands tind and the law supports liberty popular aduca tion lends intelligence to law and gives order to liberty while religion unfettered dett jett bettered ered by human arbitration between the soul of man and the throne of the infinite is left free to impress the individual conscience with all the sanction of its it supreme boil boli behesta ests and of its celestial teachings DEA olt tol t e 1 na ac h u t tt ts I 1 of f tor enose VIO vit ho gergat boldt holdt old oid it her r ay fato to think flunk wion olon as one on emans ma s labor in massachusetts is found by the census to be as productive of real wealth as the labor of five men in south carolina ekit JUC fmc ho annual earnings of her industry exceed the annual earnings per capita of any other community in in the world schools colleges books the fie free 1 e press the cul cui culture ture tare of bf the individual vid ual everywhere the policy of 4 attracting tract encouraging and developing dey eloping all the great qualities of the theli thell head ead and heart in a word I 1 the production product io n and dif dlf diffusion ruslon of ideas in these shall rest forever the secret of your strength to malquin maintain your true trued position rubal rural IN in order to a adre propound profound love iove iove love for rural affairs alq and industry nien men neada need a more profound knowledge a knowledge which the mind itself will feel in the invigoration of its powers Power sand and in the awakening awaked ling of its curiosity in order to a better and more prosperous rural und fa farming life we ave must have that life itself intrinsically richer and more free the value of improvements in the mere implements used as the ahe machinery and tools of agriculture which improvements are themselves illustrations of the application of science to practical farming is beyond human calculation opera operation of plow plowing ilig a aa lifie it is affects affected ed ty by modern improvements improvement Improve men jj in I 1 the pl plow is one of those which will occur to alf nil all farmers farm ersa ar shaving having received within the indi memory nony nory of the middle aged agrical turista turi turl sta conspicuous vlma amelioration ell eil oration the savings sayings in the expense of teams in ln this country decad decan occasioned i onesby by those thoe improvements mena within the last 25 years cairs have been estimated at not less legs than 10 per annum annum with an 1 additional kaddi iti t on ll 11 annual saving equal to lodd lodo 1000 in the cost dot got of pono 1 while wlllie the better etler etier qualify quality of the work dowd dohe tells direct directly lyon on the productiveness bf ta the corps c 0 to the amount of bf many 1 ns of df dollars j more 1 the tendency of young men to seek siek other than rural d employments mp 1 81 I 1 is partially balan baian balanced eod cod already by the ten dency of their fathers to return to them and why may we not hope to seethe see seo the time when the attractions of bf better methods of culture and a higher agricultural art shall shail I 1 win the best I 1 most capable and aspiring of our youth to the country and the farm against the allure ments of traffic and the town the welfare of the poorest tiller of the mhd soil and that of the richest are concerned in the tile progress and development of the agricultural art comfort and beauty wait alike or both I 1 am sure that no man will feel otherwise Wi than grateful to his richer bor who pours out upon the ground a generous expenditure of his wealth in experimental farming or in ornamental culture eul rul ture for the experiment is tried for mankind as well as for jilin himself geif gelf and the landscape made more picturesque by his taste faste smiles smile sag sas as well weil for the cottager as for him hinh |