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Show A MIGHTY CITY. By the new congressional apportionment the state of New York 'will have six additional members mem-bers of congress. As .New York City'has not heretofore here-tofore had quite as many members as she is entitled en-titled to, and inasmuch aa the city contains more than 55 per cent of the population of the state, it is proposed that, the six new members shall be attached at-tached to the great city. To this many of the country papers object. We should say they ae wrong. The increase in people in the city is something tremendous. This 'comes from two special, causes. The ineomiug ship with tens of thousands of people on board, a vast number num-ber of whom remain, so many . have either old friends and neighbors in the great city, or eolonies of their countrymen to welcome them. The other cause is that the whole republic is a recruiting ground for New York City, and when a man piles up a vast fortune in any outside state his first impulse seems to be to carry it to New York City, to there measure his brain Against the brains of the great plungers who congregate there. Then as-money rules the wVrld. every man who has a irhsms. an anternriaM an invention nr anv'tf ihm projects iu iniutl which require capital, he gravitates gravi-tates to New York City. And so the city continues to grow faster than the state, aud will for years to come, and five years hence, measured by the population, popu-lation, the city will be entitled to more congressmen congress-men that tlie state. ' Our own. idea is that New York City and Westchester West-chester county ought to be segregated from (the stste and be given statehood with two additional United States senators. |