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

One to Come-The Multitude of People
in the Greater City Have the Same
Representation at Washington as a
Handful of Westerners, and Separate
State is Proposed.
(From the New York Sun.)
Extreme partisans of the Greater
New York now propose the inaugura-
ton of a movement to make this great
municipality free and independent
state. The proposition, heard from
time to time in the conversation of the
agitators or put forward in the news
papers when the rural legislators be-
come unusually oppressive in their
mandates relating to this city, awakens
high appreciation or shocks the state
pride-the conservative New Yorker,
according to the habit of mind, the
calling and the personal equation of the
auditor.
That the proposal is audacious none
has denied that it arouses the percep-
tive faculties like a vast astronomical
hypothesis with the Respondent Sc
nowledge. The political effect, widely
considered of the enterprise involves a
problem of craftsmanship that 50 far
has been only gingerly approached in
the matter of detail. Aside from the
desire to be rid of government by rural
lawmakers which has been expressed
over and again by fretful citizens, an
other purpose about which not much
has been heard has actuated the pro-
jectors of the separate state, the desire
to procure "home-rule" representation
at Washington in accordance with the
enormous population of the territory
here affected" Three million persons
are entitled to have their peculiar
wants considered when they unite to
ask hearing of their desires. When
by reason of contiguity Of residence
and INTERPOLATION or dependence of pur-
suits they form a homogeneous COM
rnunity the justice of their demand for
proportionate representation in the
councils of the state will not in the alb
stract be denied But three millions of
people in something like one hundred
square miles comprised in the Greater
New York have only half as much to
say in the higher legislative body at the
national capital as 45.761 persons in Ne
vada That was the population of that
state in 1890. AT the time of Nevada 8
greatest population, according to the
Federal census reports, in 1880, she had
only 3d. 66 inhabitants.
Three millions of people here have
only half as much to say in the same
branch of the congress as less than half
a million people in Colorado. Colora-
dos population in 1890 was Az, l9S. In
other words, Colorado has in the senate
six times the representation of the me-
tropolitan community in the state of
New York. The assessed valuation of
property in the state of Colorado in
1890 was $193, 1854 1273S. In the following
year the assessed valuation in the city
of New York alone (the then New
York; was 81, 7S5,33S, or nearly ten times
as great as that of the whole Ceutenni-
al state. Colorado put out, according
to her own estimate, seventeen and
one-third million dollars worth of gold
from her mines last year, and one of
her leading papers expressed just pride
in it. New York city, without her new
acquisitions, spends nearly ten million
dollars year in charities alone, 1nclud-
ing public and private contributions.
Private charitable institutions here
represent valuation of more than
double the gold output of Colorado, Or
thirty-six million dollars. Nearly dou-
BILE the amount of Colorado's output of
gold for last year Is lying in one vault
in New York-that of the Clearing
House The value of the enormous
bulk of the foreign commerce of this
city would probably make all the
known contents of Colorado's mines
look insignificant; yet fifty-cents-on-
the-dollar Colorado senator has as
much to say in modifying the appropri-
alton for harbor improvements as the
senator representing New York.
The greater New York has seven
times the population of Rhode Island in
one-tenth of the territory! in an area
nearly three thousand times that of the
new greater city, Texas has less than
seventy-five per cent. of the population
of the new municipality The Greater
New York has three-quarters OF mill
lion people more than the state of Mas
sachusetts. California has only a little
more than third as many people as
make UP the population of the Greater
New York. and all the mineral wealth
taken from her mines since 1S4S falls
short of the assessed valuation of New
York city by more than seven hundred
million dollars.
Half dozen years ago the cities of
New York state had only about fifty
per cent. of the states population. 1t
was stated before the senate cities com
mittee last winter that the cities now
have seventy-one per cent. On an esti-
mate that the states population has in
creased as much proportionately with