| Show ti A 4 B R af r WHAT WHA T US POOR i TUX quy tue THE 11 ilia W i A 1 1 1 14 what with such a ar country bom som e say sy the curtailment of the currency others olbers the national banks others the tha high ta II at 1 r j 1 I there is one mau mail in congress who hnida different view altogether ho he had prepared a speech which hawell will inot be abl er anthe ee thi this s bisone isone cf t axt alt I 1 t 6 i ui cori Corf gress 0 0 vb ousa crytle tem dr poughkeepsie le nay n bf 6 1 a public office b orore an and y V to two iwo congresses on 4 qs j no fie 1 t the I 1 ires rip tm bf tb e large committee itt e la of bloyen members payne and d of ohio and aad john johny Y brown tubel ng three of thel then ba anthe the ti committee of reform in the iolj i bervice J r I 1 the t caused ca ause ortha olthA iad N Lp t of things in this country f andio alid avid ta are laliVe alegree throughout til ew orld orid 11 said mr whitehouse use uee is the revolution in nem new and aud the A accumulation of oat people it towns arld arid and c cities f a thee are parts of ve the same tUf kiy kia kly aalde 1 v i bathey arec arm tha manufactures trade traye peaple from frona the farms 1 A ai id i reign pans until theEs the eastern terii a nd Lb fiddle liddle states ivio we reaVa aua stand but the towns the war nua ana d alj fig gave 1 impetus im petua to all kind kinds sor of build kai ial abuses congeni eu ces I 1 cIl cli gilwork work and railroads raif ralf roads mtv emp ftp tb ha hasten to thesel these oa coa their way the 19 in bentive yb tive tivo spirit wa wao fand T t more ithan we consume con we ard are glutted J I 1 IF b y athe 1 ithe or goods and ind the replaced r ep laced by jahe he cenius renius of invention invent lon ion 1 r 1 7 1 I asked ked himli that waa our durw whole hole hoie ILI vui trouble he said sald I 1 mit wit it Js 3 our gre gret t tauble trouble troubie the n tr rne tre endy emdy iedy ledy for nis wis it is to thin bojil tho the if leltie manufacturing the park pars para becan against t the ban in 1 vew tiye propensity either by laws or counsel but the eastri east is not as well off as the west we must hate have more tillers of the bolij soil soll borders her ders fishermen sailors miners an and hunters I 1 I 1 am satisfied that politics can do nothing for our surplus population in all ail tho thio new england and middle states mr whitehouse then stated as a general proposition that in twenty years there had been no increase of farmers and farm labor in the eastern and mildd middle le states and he gave the following exemplification of the fact th detate of new now york hab hap has hab twenty one manufacturing a and n trading cities and town tho the hail hall a population iii iri ln lit 1650 1850 persons by the y year ear 1870 they had increased to 2282 thus thys i ih twenty years the tho the tho urba urban n tu turi turf r nig njg popi population had grown jl and in n the same am a por perd pera C ac dt t twenty ay years th the whole v cleof tb 04 remainder r pf af the jhn thet glates States 1 i billitto billi tio X had bad dal only grown ou la l hp fons alro airo cities ties were mene e up athe the tho country and 1 l yar yau put ula ala into c 0 hajt I 1 lisac st 9 bet bex 7 pue places other boroh blaino ang anu ivl lyl VU yui j lagese lage sw nic nie I 1 haye have nol not t considered 1 play pay that jhb ra ib hasteen has a 4 1 been een no rural nural 11 jt 11 vat what wha whatever toVer r in twenty years if I 1 so pap gip dm ath tho ba u 14 I 1 ry a 14 t maya faya a were where it 1 t w was a S I 1 man iab fad at goes op uli n making whery ahert iam lam jay g tb the e towns how holy Is I 1 I 1 it else eise I 1 so 91 it is worse m k new Ed england engrand vlana ilana take massachusetts in iti twenty mars years her hen sixty slety two towns havo have in ip ler lor eased cent and her curf 1 per per cent cent in population tio if hare hard are but people more w the tho th e country ahr parts bof of lle ike ilian than there were 1 5 0 in nelv 1 york state the percentage of grow th ia is 95 percent per ceni cent foi forthe 06 towns anad atad 19 9 p per e cent for all the tho remainder er of the tho stat state 11 binol vermont an where the agricultural Inte interest test appears to be paramount j no her eighteen towns bd hate haye people more thanin than in isop while there are fewer people in fil the remainder of the state by the rural decrease is 5 per er c cen een tard the town increase 76 70 per cent in twenty years yeam these figures were sta staggering aund arid he made them more sir 11 he said take ni arie e I 1 Bt states ates ahr si in new now En england gladd and aid the states 0 f new nev york vania vanla n a an and new jer jersey ey there it are e 7 cities and towns in t these ise lse nine ine lne states they lia iia increased souls in awen twenty y 3 years idars or prior to 1870 they ha haye e increased 81 per cent but ibok look pt the country parts or all that vast territory outside of towns there the increase ia ls only 19 per r cent orid orld personal person sl 3 beings there ia is a positive decrease of dight per cent in the rg rural population of new Ham hampshire Hamp shie while leher loher her five towns have grown 76 per cent itis only 12 per acet in connecticut of rural increase I 1 and abd that state tate has hag more than double her hen rural population now jersey has grown gron in he her r thirty three towns and only I 1 61 0 17 in all the rest ol 01 of the stafe these th so figures he said sald had been U IT ii carefully coK com collected ted tea from thet census he then went into the effects effects patents on production the effect of patents to neutralize ize the labor of human beings must have been tremendous in the tho past ten years the worst of it was that all the ingenuity came into competition with labor just after the war when we were overstocked over stocked with people in the town towns 3 collected there in response to a war market can you guess how many patents there are altogether recorded in the american patent office I 1 guessed several beveral thou thousand san tan d ah he said sald few conceive the gumbei There llad had been issued up to the middle of 1875 a as many patents as there are people in a large city the total number pa mr whitehouse then said baid that such prodigious ds fecundity of invention had been most ardently exerted while we were rolling up our burden of debt and taxation CI tho the tbt state department Depart issued t the tho patents ho he said for forty six years or down to 1835 1836 in that period only were granted grail ted about more were issued up to 1854 when the war arpke out in 1861 the patent office alone had bad only granted patents we are now issuing at the rate of 12 a year during the war only about were granted in lail salt bub but since 1668 1868 we have leave tax olg ja L upon the tho world and labor tilo ilio enormous numbe cumbe num beof of 17 patu alid I 1 conof do not count the year he then explained i r that every patent dispensed at feast with blie blae one laborer out of two i why sir air in the ebee ghee trade where I 1 am engage engaged di we wedo do almast everything by machinery ata at a single or stroke soles are cut out where the human hutnan hand was wax alone available formerly every day or week produce produces bome some thing new they make a whole wagon wheel wheelin in the lumber region of tile the west for one dollar transporting the finished product instead of the tho material to the tha eastern market we ve have no tio conception of the revolution that instill is still to ad come me TheO thew thel orld orid Is transformed byma chinery chicory chi nery nory nothing can tam keep pace with it neither sagacity nor opposition tion I 1 asked if it the only remedy was waa to emig rafe from the towns to the j tha 49 ue on oriah b remedy for peo towns taxation in ln the meantime has lo 10 advanced by reason of costly improvements prove ments khat cannot anymore any more ore employ the idle idie boenin baening g streets building grand gnand ediff edifices cesi anid arid aqueduct and the cities I 1 tue the poor are thus thrown bulof out of ork work by the suspension of public labor as well as by laborsaving labor hibar saving baving ma i r hd illustrated this by the debts of towns and cities 1 carefully tare fully colia colla I ted one vest yeat ngo ago go the the debt debts s of the the ibe state states s J ead gad ead hil bil WhIte houget 4 have tabulated as its they stood from I 1 the lyest liest information attainable a abili abile in april aprily that is about the time tima we reopened opened the centennial L iv iw nearly nea aly bat B the total debts of the fi fite nite principal cities foot up bohea to hearly aly there tak hl ingogly ing obly ohly the sizeable i cirios au ati aggregate grel grei gate civic and state debt awl alf ori or ay iy half hilf aa ulf nhi in a ap the uni 1 ted states debt itself I 1 asked basked him to give ilia some ex amp lesof these debts I 1 i well weil he said betus take ne t york Y ork state its debt is scant bf f we hive have a al sinking K fund equal equal to half of i it but the debt of new now york cily city 14 ia 14 of brooklyn pearly owl of buffalo almost plo mho W M I 1 of rochester R bf bf albany Z 3 a civic debt for five aan american land some home of these have been increased aine bine 1876 11 I 1 how do other first class cities compare with that philadelphia has above baltimore boton boston st SL louis nearly new orleans chicago cincinnati as M 0 ana and san francisco on only y these are the tha g great t cities leaving out new york if I 1 an aggregate debt of f formidable indeed said jl ii but auf considering their rapid increase 7 and not disheartening 21 I 1 ryes yes ayes it is more than haff half or all ail t the lae debt the slates states and disbow the the city living diving pep peo r pla rural nural atiel i and aud andin audin in alesa lebs less degree ett eft cities are also heavily burdened let alook I 1 there is little jersey city with newark nearis nearly aind and elizabeth ElIzabit hl N X J with i SO 86 jersey has haa towns ns with sTith nearly E yes and leaving gut put bostan we have in new En england glaUdi broyl denee dence with portland oa and aud ud bangor little litti cities like cardinal NY wui 1 I sey aught to throw away ampi tion 11 j C now said mr nin whitehouse iet filet let us take the leading second decoud class cities begin with the sou bou h nud and leave out va but charleston has sayan savani i nah nan mobile augusta la gaev galves e B ton memphis st joseph mo dao nash ville columbus ga and little louisville civic debts are disease chow now 11 said mr e letus letup let us skirmish over tile tiie he wad breadth it 0 the country we come A U pitis Pitts pittsburgh bu kgb with 1 I cleveland detroit indianapolis I milwaukee st paul ita the minor cities of th the tho idt west gaye haye baye been comparatively prudent ft which state has the greatest debt do virginia 1 aa and with ll 11 little P bear bean it I 1 t most mat of it was acquired bequir ed iid lid before fore the war in costly canal and railroad building it is olef over oven but massachusetts has ilas almost and tind pennsylvania 0 bu but t with a large sinking fund 1 I have only tabulated thirty one states he continued some rich states havo have small smail debts california has less than iowa Is almost out of debt Blich michigan igan has only the great state of illinois linola Il owes only ohly kansas even jess than that indiana and minnesota the she western agricultural population is very sensitive as to debt 12 do the far pacific states stated also keep out I 1 nevada has bas a of oregon the district of columbia has a terrible debt and accordingly accor dinglo sena senator tor for spon cers cera report has spent oooo bOO in five anve years sears add aud pays log eskut ot every every that is received for taxes now said mr whitehouse texas an empire has haa only debt while loui loul louisiana 8 a 13 a h has hns sis almost north worth carolina bas lias more moro that new york Y ork woo south carolina has haa alabama F florida 0 rida and georgia almost igi igl 19 op oooo indeed afi A the border belt of southern states sames worse afi than the Central West 14 weil wein well wel Ar arkansas arkanna kansa bais has abaye missouri i and i tennessee Tenn essee eRsee phio ohio has only new jersey only 11 1 1 3 how 0 w stand the them knaller sn aller niler neu nev england Sta Blate slate teb teh fc I 1 1 Verin vermont ont has next to nothing new hampshire a large i debt connecticut VO 0 blaine maine almost rhode island 0 ff I 1 took fook ook down these hures aures figures and debt arery very large larg massachusetts has issued of five per cent gold bonds since 1663 1863 mostly foi fok for refund refunding ap ipg g washington letter in cincinnati enquirer I 1 |
