. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . within the confinesof Massachusetts. Ihere has been no great race friction, no class discrimination. The red hand of anarchy hasnever risen to strike at the life of the people ; labor riots, which have disturbed other States, imperilling life andproperty, are, in Massachusetts, unheard of. Here are the British-American and the Irish, the German and theFrench-Canadian, the Portuguese and the Pole, the Swede and the Italian, almost all the types of the races
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . within the confinesof Massachusetts. Ihere has been no great race friction, no class discrimination. The red hand of anarchy hasnever risen to strike at the life of the people ; labor riots, which have disturbed other States, imperilling life andproperty, are, in Massachusetts, unheard of. Here are the British-American and the Irish, the German and theFrench-Canadian, the Portuguese and the Pole, the Swede and the Italian, almost all the types of the races ofEurope, and with them the descendants of the twenty thousand English families who settled in Massachusettsmainly between 1630 and 1640, a happy and contented industrial and commercial family, whose common goal isprosperity, and moral and physical improvement. Out of this common citizenship, there will come forth, inanother day and generation, a new race of Massachusetts men. Meanwhile, the liberalizing tendencies of expe-rience will have obliterated whatever race prejudice that may exist, in a latent form, now. The evolution will. STATE HOUSE, BOSTON. be easy and natural ; by the intermarriage of the races, which has already begun, the superior bone and sinew,and the Spartan fortitude of the foreigner, and the cultured intellect and Athenian graces of the descendants of thePuritans will be interchanged, — the result will be a more perfect, more ennobling, more symmetrical Jiianhood. It is a magnificent tribute to the versatility of Massachusetts men, that while she has always led the nationin hclks-kttirs, in scholarship, and in scientific research, her sons have ever been remarkable for their adaptabilityin mechanical invention. Of the five great inventions which, more than any others, have contributed to thedevelopment of commerce and the comforts of the people, it is significant that four were, if not in all respects theoriginal conceptions of Massachusetts men, first ma
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