The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-05-27

in the last FIVE years as has that of New
York city proper, the Greater New
York has forty-six per cent. of the
states people.
II the population of the Union were
divided equally among the states, the
new state of Manhattan would be enti-
tied to one-forty-siXth of the whole.
She would have within her narrow linn
its one-twenty-third Of the whole. Her
people now have one-ninetieth of the
voice of the Federal senate, when they
should have, according to numbers,
one-twenty-thir The Nevada or the
Colorado sllverite, with nothing to lose.
speaks for twenty-five thousand or a
quarter of million people, and the
sound-money man, standing for the
wealth and business stability of this
port and the country as a whole and
speaking for three millions of people, is
obliged to weigh up in the balance with
him.
These are indications of some of the
phases of the question of an indepen-
dent state. The vast aggregation that
makes up the population of this great
municipality is a number to be reck-
oned with. Three millions of people
clamoring for lf-government have
stirred up considerable of fuss before
now. That's all there were in the colo
MES that followed up the Boston Tea
party with a series of lively entertain
ments for the British. Xerxes would
have to squeeze more tears than he
shed for the army going on to Thermo-
pylae-allowing moderate discount on
Herodotus-if he dropped one for each
of us in the Greater New York. The
whole population of England conquered
by the bastard William, as he cheerful
ly called himself, would be swallowed
UP in the Greater New York for 1T
numbered only about two million.
They were conquered indeed. a COM
munity of wood builders by stone
building people, but the conditions
would be reversed for the Conqueror
who should come down on the Greater
New York; the most advanced methods
would be in operation against, not in
behalf Of him. The good countrymen
sometimes say that it would not do for
them to let the wicked city run away in
its wickedness, forgetting that in their
virtues people fall. They say the same
tIllllE III Ille L ltSUy lCl SlldiSh hpOut
the Theological seminary located here.
But the seminary in the New York way
goes on its course and wins success,
and the rustics, religious and otherwise,
hear the echo of Tweed What are you
going to do about it? The big city goes
on irresistibly, as its institutions go on,
in the way Of triumph, increasing and
multiplying, and the obstruction of the
countrymen is vain.
"How many children have you got?"
a Catholic asked of a Protestant who
had been arguing with him about the
future of the country in regard to
church influence.
None was the answer
well, I have ten," his opponent said;
"our children will settle this"
The Greater New York is in popula-
ton within perhaps about six hundred
thousand Of the rest of the state.
Brooklyn gained that number of people
in a generation prior to 1890.
The new state, If it were formed,
would hold among the states about the
same position as England does among
the nations, in some respects. 1t would
be financial and manufacturing state,
unable to feed itself from it's own earth
and purchaser Of food supplies al
ways; a great commercial and moneta-
ry center, governing itself and devot-
ing it's talents to the furtherance of the
trade relations of the world.
And the old state Of New York would
retain her greatness. Without the
Greater New York she would have
three times the population of Mary
land nearly half as many neople again
as Massachusetts, and as many as
Ohio, which just now is seeking to i'm :
press her greatness upon an unwilling
east. She would have the waterways
that have been one Of the chief means
of her greatness, and she would not
cease to be maritime state. Eastern
Long Island would give her ocean
frontage, and she would develop Austin
Corbin's great port scheme for Mon
tauk Point and the Hudson river, un-
der the supreme jurisdiction of the Sec
rotary of War as navigable water,
would give her tide-water ports close
to her capital. The natural attractions
that have brought to her throngs of
tourists greater than those moving by
caravan in the east would still bring
into her Golfers the dollars of innumer-
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