The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-10-05
..MAnMa..ss. IDEAS, .

President Grant has been in Boston
receiving thebospitalities and courtesies
Of the Athenians.' He was dined and
wined to his hearts content, and it is
not unlikely that the reception wound
up with something very acceptable to
the Chief Magistrate by the donation
OF Beacon street mansion. He takes
all such tfifiss, and as the representative
of the Radical party, Boston and Mass
achusetts are deeply in HE debt
II is interesting to examine how com
pletely the government is passing under
the control of Massachusetts ideas.
That's the Radical way Of putting it {:
Massachusetts ideas" 1t is true in so
far as Massachusetts ideas" represent
the grand principle of grabbing" all
you can and, and keeping all you get.
Take the reduction of internal reve-
nue. taxes by the last Radical Congress.
The Republican Congressional commit
tee claim they have been cut down
$55, 100000, Notwithstanding they admit
$6, 600, 900 more had been collected last
year than for any like period under
johnson. -
What are the facts 4? They have re-
heved the monopolists and rich manu-
facturers, but they have not taken the
burden from the producer.
Take two Illustrations:
l. The reduction of internal revenue
relieves Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia, Kentucky. Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, in a
round sum, 81, 066, 900, while the single
State Of Massachusetts, is relieved, in
round numbers, in the sum Of "a, $780,
600.
2. The following seven Western
States, viz: Indiana, Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Minnesota, Missouri, Iowa and
West Virginia are relieved in the sum
81, 200 900, and the single State ofMass-
achusetts is relieved a, 10000!
Add to this the fact that the people
are burdened with a tariff on the neces-
saries of life, averaging nearly fifty per
cent, to protect New England monopo-
lists and rich manufacturers that the
entiregovernment is controlled almost
exclusively by Massachusetts, and run
in the interest OF Massachusetts, having
until few weeks two members of the
Cabinet; still having the Secretary of
the Treasury; welding more
patronage than all the other de-
partments combined the Chair
man Of the Committee on Foreign AZ
fairs in the Senate; the English mis-
sion; the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury; the Chairman of the Recon
struction Committee; the Chairman Of
the Military Committee in the Senate
the Chairman Of the Committee on
Claims in the House; Of Foreign AT
fairs in the House; aud the Chairman
of the Committee on Appropriations
in the House; so that holding the key
of the public treasury, there is no pos
sibility Of any disbursement that Massa-
chusetts does not control, and generally
take the lions share.
In 1914 she opposed the war with
England and yet has been three times
paid in full for expenses she alleged she
had incurred, viz:
In 1880 Massachusetts was paid in
full $430,73S.26.
In 1859 Massachusetts was again
paid in full S227, l76.4S.
In 1870 Massachusetts was for the
third time paid in full 1862 AZ.
In the late war with the South she
furnished seventy-eight regiments, and
has been paid So, 4S7,S 1893.
While New York, which furnish
ed 275 regiments, has been paid $1,000
1913.
Ohio furnished $40 regiments, and
has been paid S2,576,620.
Pennsylvania furnished 2jS regi
ments and has been paid s., 094,s79
Having control of the Govern
ment, Massachusetts, pays herself just
as much and as often as she pleases.
See-the cost per regiment OF New