Boston: A Journalistic Poor-Farm.

Boston, located in Massachusetts, is the abandoned farm of American literature, journalistically it is the poor-farm of the U.S. Nothing in Boston astonishes foreigners more than its press, nothing more clearly illustrates the passing of what was once the Athens of the U.S. To understand in full the degradation of its dailies one must know the extraordinary transformation which has come over the stronghold of the Puritans, one must realize that the Boston of today has comparatively little in common with that of forty years ago.