Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-02-04
chs ally spy.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY =. 1854.

PAyPIRIsE ~ WoRcEsTER.-The number OF
paupers wholly supported by the city, the past year,
was nine hundred-about one sixteenth OF the whole
population, there have been six hundred and ninety
partially upported.-CdtarGet, I'd.
What possible object the editors Of the Cataract
an have in libeIius the city they do in almost
every ssue of that paper, are at loss 10 deter
mine Base aud unjust as many previous state
ments Of a similar character have been that have
appeared in that paper, we have not thought them
worthy Of notice. but the statement we have quoted
above ssuch outrageous perversion ofuuth such
foul libel upon the community in which We live, that
We cannot pass il over in silence. We have the best
reason in the world for knowing that when the edi'
or of the Cataract penned the above that he knew
better, for in the same paper he quotes from the re-
turns relating to the poor o 1858, prepared by the
Secretary Of the Commonwealth, which contains the
statistics of pauperism in Worcester, and he must
have read them.
The Cataract says the number Of persons
ohoLy supported by the city the past year was
nine hundred" The statement is false and we
defy the editor of the Cataract to substansate it
cAccording to the Cataract" one person in every
nineteen in the city Of Worcester is pauper iOholiy
supported by the city" That is lis statement, and
the language will bear no other construction. Now
let look at the figures, and how the Reverend
editor appears when confronted by The official statis-
tics. The whole amount Of expense of supporting
and relieving paupeIs, including interest on Aims
house establishment, which is valued at 100000
was in 1853, only S4,59000, and this divided
among the nine hundred which the Cataract says
were wholly supported by the city, would leave just
five dollars and ten cents for the annual support Of
each pauper, cent and half day. But the
Cataract saws there were six hundred and forty par
tally supported besides these, and the reader must
judge for HIMSELF how much under these circumstan-
ces these "wholiy supported" must have received
We do not to go farher into the statistics OF
pauperism, Tor it is not necessary to say another
word in refulalon of the munchausemisms OF the
Cataract, but nov that we are upon the subject, we
MAY as well set the matter right, by stating few
facts IN connection with the subject. The average
number Of persons uh,iy supported by the city, in
the Aims House, the past year. thirty instead Of
nine hundred, at cost OF 81 80 cts. week. which
absorbed two thousand eight hundred dollars Of
the $4590 expended Tor the relief Of all the pau
pers in the city. Nine hundred persons were re.
ieued or supported during the year, and the extent of
that support may be judgedfrom the above facts,
quoted from the record. Ii will be by any
did mind, that the amount Of relief afforded in each
individual case must have been very email, and that
the editor Of the Cataract had foundation, IN fact,
for the slanderous statements he has made, that one
peruon in every nineteen in the city OF Worcester,
is apaurer wholly supported at the public charge.
We pity the man who looks to such source for re-
liable information upon any topic.