The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1869-01-23
BULLY EOR BUTLER.

Butler, in speech delivered the
other day in Charlestown, Mass, sent
center shot into the long range,
never-look-at-home charity of the
prevalent style of Northern philan-
thropists:
According to the statistics furnish
cd by the present Legislature, as
report of their committee, it is more
dangerous to spend q year in Mas
sachusetts almshouse than it would
have been to have led the charge of
the Zouaves at Magenta. / see that
this statement strikes some of you al
most with dread Let me repeat
There was larger proportion in the
regiment which led the attack of the
battle of Solferino came out from the
battle than were of the paupers of
1868 who came out alive from the
State almshouses of Massachusetts.
Sensation.
Allow me to give you the figures.
How many was the average number
of paupers in the State almshouses
during the year 1855? Twenty-seven
hundred and some odd. How many
died in the year ending October,
1883? Six hundred and sixty-six-
one in every four. Every fourth man,
woman and child that went into the
State almshouses of Massachusetts,
died and was buried in the potter's
field of the paupers burying ground.
Three hundred and forty-one children
under the age of five years, died in
these charnal houses, and the physi.
clan of ono of these houses says he
docs not expect TO rear but three per
cent of the children brought there
under one year old! Three out of a
hundred-all the other ninety-seyen
go to nameless grave.
Why, this whole Commonwealth
felt enraged because there came re-
port from Kansas that six or eight
men had been killed, and yet, our
mothers and wives and daughters
secured the whole country for old
clothes and other comforts TO send to
the people of that Territory. Laugh
ter. In the same year three hundred
and some odd children of Massachu-
sets soil died like dogs in a kennel
in our own almshouses while we were
weeping over the imaginary wrongs
of Kansas. Checrs. Again / ask,
my friends, is it not time that we look
at home? Where is Mrs. Stowe -
Where is Greeley in the Tribune ?
Where is the extra philanthropy OF
the humanitarians? Where is that
denouncer of great and good men,
Wendell Phillips? Where arc all
these men who regulate the affairs OF
people afar off? Is there no ample
room for their charities here at home
One hundred and sixty-five children
dying at Bridgewater, one hundred
and fifteen at Tcwksbury and one
hundred and one at Munson! Forty
infants died in two months Oh! but
| they were white children. Laugh
ter. Why look after them / do
not wish TO harrow your feelings fur.
ther by going into statistics. / only
ask you If is not time we ceased to
look after the wrongs of the negroes
of the South, and look a little after
NA@ al Dak J. aIl
KuowNothing friend of mine will say
that is of no consequence, that these
people, or the largest portions ofthem
were merely Irish paupers, to him
answer, that the great majority oi
them were native born citizens ot
Massachusetts,, entitled TO every pro
lection that Massachusetts, gives tc
any of her citizens applausel, and
the very largest proportion of then
born on this continent. If | am told
that, oh, these were the old, the in
firm, and the Sick" have to say o.
those 662, ,34l-more than half-wert
under FIVE years of age; immorta
souls brought into this world and
placed in the care of Massachusetts
charity, Massachusetts, philanthropy
and they have gone to God who CAV.
them, and it is for US to render an &C
count for them.