The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-11-04
MASSACHUSETTS, THE CENSUS, AND
THE QUOTA.
From. the N, Y. World.

From the NJ Y. World
One of the greatest indecencies Of the can
vass is the fact that General Butler and
Senator Wilson are hanging about the cleo
tion districts of this State. If justice was
done, they would hang elsewhere. The
leading rogue and dullest blockhead of Mas
sachusetts have been seen here before At
another time they were active in forcing this
city to do more than its share of fighting, as
they now are to take from it just right of
voting. The following official statement will
show how their own State shirked during the
war, and how it grabbed the spoils of victory.
We do not include the Generals private
plunder:-
Massachusetts,, with ten Congressman and
population of 1, ,231 200 under the census of
1860, had to furnish under call for 800, 900
men, only 15, 126. The first nine Congress
sional districts of New York (ncluding the
city of New York;, with a population of
1,21S, $40, were called upon for 25, 166.
But now the census is taken the country is
astonished to learn that Massachusetts is
rapidly growing in numbers while the city of
New York is standing still. So much for
being in disfavor with census-takers.
About the time the General Government
was calling for men it was giving out valua Die
banking monopolies. Massachusetts,, which
claimed it had but few men able to fight,
showed that it had many men able to grab
the spoils. They were so vigorous and able
bodied in this way that we get the following
curious results
The average number of men furnished
by Massachusetts,, under a call for 800, 600,
from each Congressional district was 2167
The average number sent by each Congress
sional district in Illinois was 1904. The
amount of currency given to Massachusetts,
under the banking law, with a population
about one-half that of Illinois, was about
$56, 900, 600; the amount given to Illinois
about $4,000, ,000-or, in proportion to popu-
lation, about one-twentieth. Currency was
given to Massachusetts at the rate of
$52 to each inhabitant, and to Illinois at
the rate of SO, and the same rate to Wis
consin and Michigan.
The results are that Illinois has to pay -
per cent. to get currency, while Massachu-
setts pays but per cent, and has the most
men in proportion to brag of loyalty, as they
did not go to the war and get killed.
When the enrolments were made for
| quotas the Massachusetts, Senators hung
about Washington to get construction and
rules which would lessen the calls upon that
| State. The official returns show how we'll
they succeeded. They claimed that every
man there, from Senator Sumner down, was
suffering under physical disabilities" or
thatits population was largely made up of gar
rulous old women, like Wilson, who in the
Senate is constantly suffering under the
pangs Of parturition, and each day giving
| birth to htters of bills which are remorse-
| lessly drowned by his associates, as if they
were blind puppies. The tariff men of New
England, having killed the commerce of New
York, now call upon it's merchants to crush
its political rights. Will they be guilty OF
this suicidal policy