The Press., 1890-08-14

ten years ago 622. 700. It is now nearly 735 Il0O. The population of Mississippi by inc census of 1880 was ], ,l31, ,597, very nearly twice as large, an agricultural state without manufactories practically. The value of the lands of this agricultural state nine times as large as ours was $92, ,S44 ,9l5 --oyer S92. .OOO. 900, mind you-while ours vas Sl21. .063. BIO -$29, ,000, 900 more the houses and lands were worth ill Connecti- cut a state one-ninth as large as Mlsslss- ippi. Mississippi was SIC, 1882, 129-the whole of it put down for taxation lands, facto- ries and everything else amounted to $llO,- 692. .129. Connecticut, assessed reason. ably. at perhaps seven-tenths of Its market value, was $327, TIT ,385-three times as rich as is Mississippi. Besides that, nere are the manufactures of Mlsslsslppl; tney are largely saw mills few nunoreo thousand dollars of cotton products, ana little wool-in all $7, ,5l8, ,3O2 while the value of the manufactures and lndnstries of Connecticut amounted to SlS5, ,697 ,2ll. Divide 1855 by and you find that we have something like twenty y-six times as much nroduct in little Connecticut as they have in Mississippi.
 Then the senator from Mississippi thinks we have class of people there who are al, most ready to cut our throats If they could only be informed by somebody of how they are being robbed. l suppose gentlemen do mean something of that kind. sup pose they fancy there is shadow ot truth in it know of some cures effected upon some people having such ideas by a fort nioht's travel in New English and ln- yite the senator from Mississippi to come there. I will entertain him If he comes there. and take him to my hotel ana my office. and take him about Connecncut, and ten days will answer the purpose, and he will never make such speech as that again.
 in the savings-banks. They nave more money in the savings banks or Just aDout the same amount of money ln the savings banks that all Mississippi is assessed TOT. It lacks five millions of 1t. Our people have $1O5, ,OOO, 900 in the savings banks of the state. which almost equals the total of what all Mississippi is worth under oath for taxation purposes-$llO,OOO,OOO. u,
 money in the bank. Are they the people who want insurrection and by whom we are threatened with communism and SOC ialism Every man of them has $lOO in the savings bank, and he is under bonds to keep the peace, and he will have peace, and he will have none of the robbery the gentleman speaks of when there IS to be division. He has got his cottage, and he lives comfortably, and he sends his chil- dren to good schools-for they are all free there-he goes to church like good cit zen. he attends public meetings, he hears all the political speeches, he reads at least one daily paper. That is the case, think I may say, with the majority of these poor, down -trodden, robbed mechanics of Con- necticut.
 You cannot preach socialism there. There is no home for it. The seed will not sprout. We know what we are and we know what we can do, and we are not afraid. Tell our people anything you please. You can find no commonwealth, you can find nothing that surpasses it in industry, in intelligence, in wholesome progress. on those rocky hills and strips of fertile valley. We have agriculture worth far more than his, and we have twenty-six times the value of manufactured products, etc., according to the figures l recited to you.
 Now, why will the gentleman make a speech full of all these iusinnations that there is 8 great, rich claas of rpbber bar ...:na hs-a MAa ass ,tski ing a big tol ont of the poor, ignorant people around them And he warns us against the hres of Dan Domingo and the horrors of the French