The Worthington advance., 1893-10-19
Cities, and what Makes Them.


over 10000 inhabitants each. Thes
are: Boston, Worcester, Lowell, Fa]
g. River, Cambridge, Lawrence, Spring
field, New Bedford, Somerville. Hol
: yoke, Salem, Chelsea, Haverhill, New
ton, Brockton, Taunton, Gloucester
Maiden, and Fitchburg. Three cite:
of this size, and no more, appear n
the census of Virginia. viz, Rich
mond, Norfalk and Petersburg. Hall
the states in the Union combined do
not show so many cities of 10000 and
over, as does the state of Massachu-
sets. The following states have not
even one city as large as 10000, to-
wit: Vermont, Florida, Mississippi,
Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming,
North Dakota and South Dakota.
Nine states have each only one city
of 10000 or over, to-wit: New Hamp-
shire, Delaware, Maryland, West Vir-
ginia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Ar
kansas and Oregon. -Four other
states, to-wit: Maine, Nebraska, Col
orado and Washington have each
only two cities that have passed the
10000 limit.
Why has Massachusetts more flour
ishing cities than twenty other states
of this Union? Her territory is not
extensive. Her soil is not rich. Her
rural population is not great. There
is but one answer: Massachusetts is
manufacturing state. Her produce
tions go into every land Of the earth.
Every nation and, we might almost
say, every tribe Of mankind, whatever
its grade of civilization, uses her man.
ufactures. By means of her man
ufactures she brings wealth from
afar. No state of like dimensions
possesses SO much actual wealth, or so
many families of ample means.
Massachusetts has not sent out
armed pirates to plunder the other
people of the world. She has not
gained her wealth by fraud. She has
given full value for all that she
has received. So far from holding. in
her hands wealth to which she is not
entitled, she has helped to enrich the
lands into which her inventions,
the products of her looms, mills and
factories have gone. She has taught
her sons how to gain thrift by honest
means, and their energy is known all
OFC1 CuC S1OOC'
Massachusetts is a manufacturing
state. The secret of her civic growth
is given in single line. Once she
had no cities of rank beyond those Of
her sister states. Before the war of
1872, she was state of agriculture
and maritime commerce. Southern
statesmen forced upon the country.a
highly protective tariff-that Of 1916
and placed heavy duties on all the
articles her ships brought from for
eign countries. Her ships had been
taken and destroyed in the war and
her commerce crippled. She conclud-
ed to utilize her water falls by put
ting them to work. She could pro-
duce goods better than she got from
abroad, and escape high duties. She
was literally forced into manufact-
ures by southern high tariff. When
the debt incurred by the war of 1912
was paid, the southern statesmen, be-
. grudging her prosperity, cut down
the tariff. But she kept on her way
through all fortunes in the course she
had begun. The result is seen in the
census reports of 1890, in her twenty
! cities of all sizes, none Of the twenty
{ with less than 10000 people. That
does not tell all. Many small man
ufacturing towns exist OF great wealth
and population in the aggregate.
Massachusetts, and other manufac-