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mn assurance of the continued prosperity and the future manufacturing supremacy of our great commonwealth. But great as are the material benefits flowing from those activities, they are not the greatest. Dwellers in communities having little intercourse with those outside usually consider and often call the luckless stranger within their gates a "foreigner" and sometimes resent the intrusion by heaving a stone at him. Someone has said in substance, "Mountains interposed make enemies of peoples that had else been friends*. Granting the truth of this prop OS It ion, make neighbor had else been s corollary would be, "Railways connecting and friends of isolated communities that utually indifferent or actually hostile"• of an abundance of cheap fuel ie an assurommunity will supply itself with an abundance of cheap p < the length ana suoi i supply of power distributed over breadth ( the state will induce a develop- The possessic ial syste 3 whose possibilities can only be raring ti turn condition of those oountries Lties of power with the condition ;reat quai ountries Much has t i use power but sparingly* ic en said, - some of it wisely and some ly, about the great and unnecessary wastes and s in the conduct of our large commercial ie undoubtedly true that preventable wastes hese as in all other rapidly developing human 1
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