Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-08
SournaI zrS Courier.
Tuesday. MaY 8. 1883.

ALL RIGHT AT TEWKsBURY.
 The respectable" people of Massachusetts feel keenly the loss of good repute which the State has suffered on account of the Tewksbury investigation, and they are do- ing all they can to show that bold Governor Butler has not succeeded in proving his charges. They are now much pleased with the report of the condition of affairs at Tewksbury which has opportunely just been made by Mrs. Clara T. Leonard to tho State Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity.
 Mrs Leonard visited the almshouse last week, and though she did not find exactly a paradise, she did find things in good shape there. Scrupulous neatness prevailed. The food was abundant and good, though too coarse for the sick and feeble. The bath tubs were numerous enough and in good order. The chief fault which Mrs. Leonard enough-and that insane women are in part cared for by male attendants. The com plaint that there are not attendants enough appears to be well founded, for though there are about nine hundred paupers in the insti- tuition theres are but forty-four paid em- ployes. Governor Butler thinks the aims house can be run cheaper, but Mrs. Leonard does not see how. On the contrary, she thinks the expenses ought to be increased i; that the curable patients should have richer and more tempting fare, and that more at tendants should be hired. On this point she uses the following forcible language never expected to be ashamed of Massachu- setts but I am now ashamed. This rich and prosperous State year after year cries out "Cut down pauper expense" and persons are found who point to some of the poorest kept almshouses in the State as 8 model for Tewksbury. The taxes are paid in chief by the rich. The poorer class do not pay in taxes even the proportionate cost of the pro- property. For the purpose apparently of justifying this parsimony, gross misstate- ments are spread upon the columns of every paper in the land, and the proud old commonwealth receives insult and cries of shame. < Most of all, Irish citizens of Massachusetts legislators and voters grudge to their own countrymen-and nearly every inmate of Tewksbury is of foreign birth or percentage,
 
 sum of S1O9 per annum per capita, when sick, or crippled, or feeble, or infant, or in sane Political feeling should never enter into questions of charity, but, if one party asks for just and fair expenditure, and an- other calls for a meager and inadequate one, in niggardly and selfish greed, the God who hears the cry of the poor shall avenge their cause as he did the wrongs of the poor slave, and the party who goes for the wrong shall surely fall.
 Mrs. Leonard did not hear word of con- plaint against Superintendent Marsh or Dr. Lathrop, but on the whole she concluded that both could be spared from Tewksbyry. Both were removed Saturday, and they ought to have been removed long ago if ons-quarter of that which Governor Buffers witnesses have said concerning them is true. It is pleasant to hear from Mrs. Leonard that the Tewksbury almshouse is not the terri ble place that it was. She says that most of the abuses there belong to past years and have been gradually removed. She does not praise Governor Butler for what he has done towards completing the reform, and we find no such praise in the anti-Butler newspapers of Massachusetts. But it appears to outsiders that he deserves some praise for the fearless manner in which he has exposed and attack ed preat wrong