488 



MASSACHUSETTS. 



ery, 8,412 power-looms, and 181 hand-looms; pupils, cost $13,000.03; at Salem, 312 pupils, 



in making worsted goods, 191 sets of machin- cost $13,160.33 ; at Worcester, 166 pupils, cost 



ery were employed, 5,114 power-loams, and 3 $12,784.99; Normal Art School, Boston, 225 



hand-looms ; in making linen and gunny cloth, pupils, cost $9,669.04. Total State appropria- 



15,606 spindles and 605 looms ; silk-works, 500 tion for normal instruction, $76,000. 



spindles ; webbing, 288 looms ; braiding ma- The volunteer militia of the State consists of 



chines, 2,194; knitting, 82 power and 6 hand 3,775 enlisted men, and 373 commissioned offi- 



machines. The whole number of newspapers cers, a total force of 4,148 men. The 61 com- 



and periodicals in the State was 341, including panics of infantry contain 48 men each; the 



26 dailies, with an annual circulation of 83,- three companies of cavalry, 81 men each, and 



38s), 028 copies; 222 weeklies, with an annual the three companies of artillery, 80 men each, 



circulation of 47,650,250 ; and 58 monthlies, The two corps of cadets contain 272 men, and 



circulating 7,504,224 copies annually ; total an- there are 92 non-commissioned and staff offi- 



nual circulation of all periodicals, 141,774,382 cers. There was a full parade of the militia on 



copies. The whole number of vessels engaged the 26th of June, on the occasion of the recep- 



in fisheries and coastwise and ocean commerce, tion of the President of the United States in 



in 1875, was 2,274, with an aggregate tonnage Boston, and again at the dedication of the 



of 422,895 tons. The amount invested in fish- Army and Navy Monument, in the same city, 



eries was $7,269,442 ; annual product, $7,684,- September 17th. The enrolled militia of the 



716. The grand total of the value of indus- State numbers 217,239. 



trial products in 1875 is as follows : Manufact- The political canvass of the year opened with 

 ures and fisheries, $600,016,678 ; agriculture a convention of the " Greenback " party, held 

 and mining, $43,461,599 ; total, $643,478,277. in Boston, on the 5th of September. The fol- 

 In 1865 it was: Manufactures and fisheries, lowing ticket was put in nomination: ForGov- 

 $444,524,353 ; agriculture and mining, $51,- ernor, "Wendell Phillips, of Boston ; Lieutenant- 

 149,576; aggregate, $495,673,929. Reduced Governor, Dyer D.Lum, of Northampton ; See- 

 to a gold basis, the aggregate for 1875 is $574,- retary of State, Nathan Clark, Jr., of Lynn; 

 534,175; for 1865, $315,715,877: a gain of Auditor. H. M. Bearse, of Boston; Treasurer, 

 about 82 per cent. The increase in population "W. F. "Whitney, of South Ashburnham ; At- 

 at the same time was from 1,267,030 to 1,651,- torney-General, Israel W. Andrews, of Danvers. 

 912, a gain of 30.38 per cent. The platform adopted was as follows: 



The educational statistics of the year 1876- wkertat, By the vicious and reckless financial pol- 

 '77 are as follows : icy of our National AdminiBtration since the corn- 

 Number of public schools B,556 mencement of the late war, man ey, the medium of 



Number of children between five and fifteen exchange, the unit and measure of credit and liabil- 



yearaofage 296,375 jty in all contracts, has been so reduced in quantity. 



Number of pupils in public schools during the Bo rapidly and completely changed and appreciated 



. J ear "'\i"'n 999'! in value, as compared with property and labor, that 



under five 'years attendtag ? bonds, notes, mortgages an^ otfier money liabil- 



school ; 2,053 ities, have been BO increased as to render bankruptcy 



Number of p^reons over fifteen attending schools 28^190 the only alternative of the debtor claps. By the sui- 



Number of male teachers in public schools 1.176 cidal policy of contraction, increasing the measure of 



Number of female teachers 7,544 the dollar "as a unit of liability, property mortgaged 



Number of teachers who have attended normal but a few years ago to the extent o f two-thirds or one- 



Av'Seterm of ^DUcVcnoois.'.'.'.'.-.'.-.'.'.'.'.S months 15 day s >'* of . ita , 1 ' now f *** to satisfy the mortgage. 

 Average wages of male teachers per month .... $82 22 The weight of national, btate, and municipal debts 

 Average wages of female teachers per month... $84 20 has been increased nearly 50 per cent, in tbe last four 

 Amount raised by taxation for support of pub- years. Thus, the real property of the country is rap- 

 lie schools $4,831,675 85 1( lly centralizing in the hands of money-lenders, and 



Income of funds appropriated for public schools a ji t ij e re8O urces of taxation are required to meet the 



E5e7seT 8 f u%rt.;den C e:::::::::::::::::: $!affi Z owfc?* . f ^ j? ublic c .- ditor8 - - The in >T ng 



Amount of local school funds $1 893.891 19 scarcity of circulating medium, causing, as it does, 



Income of local school funds $1 19.968 28 the steady depreciation of prices, has made all mvest- 



Income of State school fund $76,820 07 ments in productive enterprises unprofitable, reduced 



Amount expended m erecting and repairing production to the limited demand of absolute daily 



school-houses. $956,483 88 necessity, and brought upon us the paralysis of trade, 



iurorh h S^itacher4::::::::::::::: Si SSr* 5 - and enforcd idlene88 of tbe la ' 



Number of high-school pupils 19,160 boring classes. 



Number of evening schools 92 1- We demand the immediate and unconditional 



Number of teachers in evening schools.!! 545 repeal of the specie resumption act of January 14, 



Average attendance 5,8<>5 1875, and the rescue of our industries from the disas- 



Expen so of evening schools $78,850 58 ter an d ru i n resulting from its enforcement ; and we 



Number of incorporated academies 44 c}} upon all patriotic men to organize in every con- 



iSSKSK 1 ^:::::: : vnJfZ g^Lai *S <* the country, with the y. w of 



Number of private schools and academies 385 electing representatives to Congress who will legia- 



Average attendance 15.228 late for and a chief magistrate who will carry out the 



Aggregate tuition $489.608 11 wishes of the people in this regard, and thus stop the 



Total cost of public education $5,532,519 28 present suicidal and destructive policy of contraction. 



The State Normal Schools are as follows : At 2. We believe that to the legal tenders we owe the 



Errs? JS& L 80 ^ y^iS^* th t iffi?s^i^s^tf;^i2 



State $12,160.68 ; at Westfield, 170 pupils, cost times of peace * Neither do we believe it right or ex- 



of support $12,397.14; at Bridgewater, 211 pedient to pursue further a policy, every step of which 



