The New England magazine . His Excellency Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts New England Magazine Vol. XXXVII DECEMBER, 1907 Number 4 WHATS THE MATTER WITHNEW ENGLAND? VI. MASSACHUSETTS IN AN ERA OF INDUSTRIALPROSPERITY AND POLITICAL BUNCOMBE. By FRANK PUTNAM F you were set the taskof studying and report-ing upon the conditionsof life in Massachusetts,three courses would atonce lie open to first, most obvious,and easiest would be to follow the fashionand pronounce a whole-souled eulogy uponthe grand old Bay State, mother of Presi-dents and of younger commonwealths. Fora secon
The New England magazine . His Excellency Curtis Guild, Jr., Governor of Massachusetts New England Magazine Vol. XXXVII DECEMBER, 1907 Number 4 WHATS THE MATTER WITHNEW ENGLAND? VI. MASSACHUSETTS IN AN ERA OF INDUSTRIALPROSPERITY AND POLITICAL BUNCOMBE. By FRANK PUTNAM F you were set the taskof studying and report-ing upon the conditionsof life in Massachusetts,three courses would atonce lie open to first, most obvious,and easiest would be to follow the fashionand pronounce a whole-souled eulogy uponthe grand old Bay State, mother of Presi-dents and of younger commonwealths. Fora second course, you might set up a stand-ard of human perfection, in the fashionof the grim reformers, and having triedMassachusetts by that standard, you couldconscientiously find her guilty on all third, and least easy, course would beto adopt a standard averaging the best thatmen have done in this and other communi-ties, in the management of public andprivate affairs, and try faithfully to learnwherein Massachusetts excels, equals, orfalls short of this standard of course you took, you could besure that you would make many errors,and your highest reasonable hope wouldbe that by assembling your observations you might rea
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