The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-09-28
Manufactures and Population.

| The census of Q Massachusetts, vet
mpleted-exhibits the effect the diversifl-
cation Of labor has upon the prosperity of a
community. / Massachusetts, is hive from
which and immense emigration, both male
and female, is poured out upon. other parts
OF the country, especially the west. North
ern Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Iowa, Min
nesota, and the territories west of us, are
largely indebted to Massachusetts for their
bone and sinew, as well as brain power.
II ct the parent state appeard to be still as
prolific AS the children which sprang from
her. The census returns from two hundred
and slxty-four of the cities and towns of the
commonwealth, taken in May last, give
population in the aggregate of 1,035, 615.
lhe population Ill those cities and towns &C
cording to the state census in 1860, was
994,O The increase in FIVE years has
been Al, 574. The number of legal voters
III these places is now reported at 200, 54S );
IN 1857, l7I273; increase IN eight years,
29,l75: The large proportionate increase
OF legal voters is accounted for by the fact
that the representation of the several cities
and towns is based on the number of legal
voters. This was not generally known in
1857, and 30 there was no effort to make the.
number appear as large as possible The
population of the whole state in 1860, was
Fl, 231 OPP : About sixty towns remain to
be heard FROM and from these the report
will not be very much larger than it was five
years ago. The present. population of the
state may therefore be estimated at about
1926, 600. The number of voters in 1857.
was I'll, 300; the present number viii be
reported at about 245, 000
Now let us compare this with the popula-
ton OF one or two western states. The pop-
lulation of Wisconsin f, has Increased about
80, 900 in the last four years, or a total pop
ulation Of about $50, 600. Iowa shows an
increase of 100, 600. The comparison be-
tween the two states is as follows: II
Pon: 1860. Pop. 1865. Increase.
Wisconsin. ...775,s4 SIS 600 per cent
Iewa 674,648 10000 IA per cent.
OF course the two western states have in
creased in much more rapid ratio than the
eastern; but is not the increase of Massa-
chusets wonderful, considering the drain on
on her people, on account of the war, and
the still more exhausting drain of emigra-
ton?
= Now, to what shall we attribute this in
crease, but to the fact that, by her manufac-
turing industry, she is able to so diversity !
her labor that she counteracts the tendency |
OF her redundant population to seek their
fortunes in more fertile regions Were Mas
sachusetts an exclusively agricultural coun.
try, like Illinois, she would to-day be on the
decline as respects population, while, like
Virginia, her soil would be exhausted bv
constant ehopping, without proper return
to the earth of the necessary elements of
production As it is, it is a fact that while
the fertile west, year by year, produces less
average amounts of grain to the acre, Mas
sachusetts produces greater. These are facts
that commend themselves to all thinking
men, and go to prove that nothing SO builds |
1p state, in all that relates to material I
as such Investigation of the
pursuits of industry as shall afford to everyt
human faculty an opportunity of maki1g1t
Itself OF use to the public = ~ &