Morning journal and courier., 1884-11-01
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America. With population under 1 500, 900 Massachusetts has invested in educational and properties nearly twenty-two millions of dollars. She pays annually for educational purposes more than four million seven hundred thousand dollars,
 Virginia, endowed by nature with one of the richest heritages of soil, minerals, eli rnate waters and harbors, with population | exceeding 1 ,500, 900, has interested in school | buildings and property tritle over one mil lion dollars; and her annual expenditures for | the education of her children are less than | nine hundred thousand dollars. Republican | Connecticut invests three and one-half mil | lions in school buildings, while Dem- l ocratic South Carolina, with a ter | ritory which would make about eight | Connecticuts and population fifty per cent larger than that of the nutmeg State, puts four hundred thousand dollars into similar property. Republican Illinois has invested more in school buildings, furni- ture and apparatus than has been put into
 such property by all the fifteen States of the
 solid South-yes, enough more to duplicate
 the value of all such property in Alabama,
 Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Mississippi,
 North and South Carolina and Texas, and
 still have over half a million dollars left
 iingling in her treasury.
 Thus statistics might be piled upon statis- tics, showing the marvellous difference in the matter of education and educational facilities between the splendid Republican States of the solid North and the Democratic States of the solid South.
 In view of these surprising facts does it seem rational to entrust the administration of the nation to party so derelict in its ob- | ligations to it's own people and wardsa
 The practical illiteracy of the solid South | is still further illustrated by it's non-support l of newspapers. No community in this en- ! frightened age can justly claim high place in 1 civilization which fails to support within I itself an adequate number of newspapers. 1 The newspaper has become foremost pillar | in our temple, where we daily work and wor- ! ship. It is the very daily bread of our intel l lectual moral and social existence.
 ! There are published in the North and South texcIuding Missouri, the territories and ! the District of Columbia) 13, 75e newspapers, of which il ,090 appear in the North and F. 660 in the South. The aggregate circulation of all their publications in one year exceeds, by little three thousand millions of copies. Over twenty hundred millions of these \ are issued from the press of the North, while only three hundred and seventeen mllll emanate from the press of the South. The ! Republican States supply for their popuia- | tions an average of about eighty-eight copies per annum per capita. The Democratic States supply for theirs less than nineteen and one-half copies per annum per capita. The six States of New England alone issue and distribute in the course of one year more ! copies of newspapers than do all the States of the solid South The States of Illinois and Connecticut print and distribute annual ly a greater number of copies of newspapers than the whole solid South. Massachusetts issues annually more than one hundred and eighteen millions copies; Elr- ginia less than eleven millions. Massachu- setts furnishes her population with one hundred and twenty-one copies annually for each inhabitant; Virginia less than fifteen copies Illinois distributes over one hun dled and seventeen millions of copies per annum from her press, and South Caro1na three millions from hers. Illinois supplies her people with ninety-one copies each per year; South Carolina hers with less than eight copies The only States of the solid South which in the production of newspapers com
 pare favorably with some of those Of the North are Maryland and Delaware, and these owe their exceptional impulse to the cities of Baltimore and Wilmington, whose
 connection with the great Republican heart of the nation has given to them some north ern vitality.
 It is perhaps not generally known that the solid South contains vast reaches of intel lectual barrens-the fruits of Democratic mis- rule Out of eleven hundred and seventy six counties within it's limits there are two hundred and nineteen in which not one single newspaper IS
 printed or publisRedl These counties of darkness vary in population;on hun dred and fifteen of them having over five 1 thousand population each; thirty y-three hay ing over ten thousand each; eleven having over twelve thousand each; and the whole containing an aggregate of nearly twelve hun dred thousand votes dwelling in large mass es, in organized communities, without the light of local newspaper-without even so much as the fierce flare of a Democratic sheet to make visible the surrounding dark ness! The combined superficial areas of l these counties of intellectual gloom are equal to a territory of 162 764 square miles. Think of it! In the heart of the solid South are communities densely populated, with an az gregate area larger than that Of all the States of New England, New York and Pennsylva- mia, within which is neither printed nor published solitary local newspaper! These combined communities sustain white population of over S21 ,000, and colored pop
 ulation exceeding 356, 900. Nor is this intel lectual destitution confined to the newer and more remote States of the South. The five old States of Georgia, Kentucky, North Gar olina, Tennessee and Virginia contain one
 hundred and twenty-five counties wholly destitute of local newspapers, such counties
 having an aggregate population ot 903: :4o4,
 and a combined area larger than that of the
 entire State of New York. Can we wonder
 that in all that appertains to popular intel.
 ligence and the fruits thereof the South is
 at least fifty years behind the North?
 With the foregoing record of the South as
 to newspapers, compare the condition of the
 Republican States. In all New England,
 New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio,
 Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Callfor-
 nia and Oregon not a county is to be found
 which does not possess one or more local
 newspapers. Out of l ,106 counties in the g
 Republican States, all except thirty-six con
 tain locally printed and published news
 papers. The thirty-six without newspapers
 are situated in the remote and i'd
 Colorado, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
 braska and Nevada-the aggregate popula-
 tion in the whole thirty-six being only thir-
 teen thousand one hundred and thirty seven.
 Not one of these counties contains five thou
 sand inhabitants; only one has over four
 thousand, and but three over one thousand.
 Twenty of the thirty-six lie in western
 Kansas, and contain an aggregate population
 of but twenty-seven hundred and sixty. The
 Republican North shows one per
 son dwelling in counties without newspapers
 to every 2, 1850 of her entire population. The
 solid South shows one person dwelling in
 counties without newspapers to every four
 teen of her population.
 Such is a brief review of the intellectual
 development and status of the Democratic
 South in comparison with the Republican
 North. Judged by their fruits, which of the
 two policies of government, which of the two
 antagonistic ideas-the Republican or the
 Democratic-do the young men of New Ha-
 ven believe best fitted to rule a great, intel
 ligent and progressive nation' Which party
 promises most for the intellectual strength
 of the Republic in the coming twenty-four
 years, where with one hundred millions of
 population it will stand the foremost na-
 tion of the world? Shall we have Massachu-
 setts Republicanism, or Virginia and South
 Carolina Democracy, at the national helma One additional item, showing the results in one direction only, of the intellectual de- velopment of the two sections of our coun- try, must suffice. Senator Platt, of Connec- ticut, in an able speech in the U. s. Senate on the 31st of March last, upon the subject of the Reorganization of the Patent ofice," presented a vast array of facts demon strsting the tremendous impulse given to the progress of the nation by the discov- cries and inventions covered by patents is- sued to Americans. We quote as follows: ssThe establishment of the patent office marked the commencement of the marvellous development of the resources of the country which is the admiration and wonder of the world; and it is not too much to say that this unexampled progress has been not only de pendent upon, but has been coincident with Of he