The New England magazine . WHATS THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND? 139 wharfage at Providence, and by rail com-munication between her isolated farming-towns and her cities. Perhaps these arethe most important opportunities whichnow seem to be neglected in the States in-dustrial program. Factory Villages in the Country You ride along on any of the railwaylines in the State, through long stretchesof wild lands, unused and almost unin- Georgia and the Carolinas, where the NewEnglanders have taken hold of the industry,but it jars upon one bred in the Statesfurther West. There, except in a very fewof t
The New England magazine . WHATS THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND? 139 wharfage at Providence, and by rail com-munication between her isolated farming-towns and her cities. Perhaps these arethe most important opportunities whichnow seem to be neglected in the States in-dustrial program. Factory Villages in the Country You ride along on any of the railwaylines in the State, through long stretchesof wild lands, unused and almost unin- Georgia and the Carolinas, where the NewEnglanders have taken hold of the industry,but it jars upon one bred in the Statesfurther West. There, except in a very fewof the largest cities, and in a few big trustfactories only, the workmen are not re-strained by high fences and locked used to be said, not so many years ago,that when a Chicago man wanted to putlivery on his servants he had to send Eastto get the servants; no Western man wouldwear livery. There was something in the. The Rhode Island State Normal School habited, until suddenly you come into apretty mill village situated on a are many of these communities, lo-cated in rural environment but havingpractically no connection with rural you are from the South, or the MiddleWest, you will wonder, perhaps, at thehigh fences with locked gates that enclosethe big textile mills. This custom of lock-ing workmen in, and locking the rest of theworld out, adapted from the textile dis-tricts of the Old World, has not yet foundits way West or South to any extent. Youwill see a few of these mill barricades in atmosphere that made it seem a degrada-tion, and the West would probably regardthe locked gates and the factory high fencesin much the same way that it regards thewearing of livery. On the other hand, there has been littlein the West and South of that developmentof benevolent paternalism, expressed in whatis called welfare work among factory hands,that is common in Rhode Island. Many ofthe
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