The same thing has been done once before in these Northern States. I can myself remember that my own mother was an operative in a factory in Lowell. and the New England girlsvery generally. the school teachers. the best quality of farmers girls. were operatives in the factories of New England in early times. But gradually the foreign immigrant. the Irishman and some of other nationalities. usurped that position. They came to this country. they became qualified for the work of the factories. they usurped it. they crowded the others out. and that is hardly the true expression either. for these others elevating them-. selves by their own efforts. gradually found better positions in life. until today the child of the original Yankee is giving instruction to the whole United States. and it is a very rare thing indeed that now a person of genuine AngloSaxon New England descent. or Northern descent. is an operative in any of the factories of the North. * But bow has it been with the Irishman who thirty years ago took the place of the American operative? The second generation of the Irish is the equal of any American. as intelligent as any. as honored as any. and gradually becoming as wealthy as any. and the Canadian is passing through precisely that same period of discipline and development. and the next generation of the Canadian will be the equal of the Irishman.
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