They had not "developed their resources"; they had not built up splendid great cities; they had little knowledge of the delights of trade. Things could not get on so--that was not "progress." Here was water power running to waste all over Massachusetts; there were keen and able heads who believed they knew how to set these powers to work to grind their grists; it was quite ridiculous that these tumbling streams should not be turning millwheels and spinning cheap cotton. And then too not a railroad ran through Massachusetts--no transportation except in wagons. "Good God!" the pious people naturally exclaimed; "what misery, what a slow set!" Money--money was then loaned at only six per cent.! Things must be changed. They were changed. Mill after mill was built, among them the "_Atlantic_." Railway after railway was built, among them the "_Eastern_," and the stock was quickly paid up, and all went merry as a marriage bell. But some people own those stocks now, and do _not_ find themselves happy! What is the cure for these shrivelled dividends? Clearly, is it not, _to bring in cheap labor_? Let every man who has nothing and wants much, take shares in "THE CHEAP LABOR SOCIETY." Seeing what has been done for Massachusetts, it is easy to see what can be done. And what has been done? In fifty years she has built up Lowell, and Lawrence, and Worcester, and Holyoke, and many more great towns. She has increased Boston to a population of 341,919 souls--or bodies--in the year of grace 1875. She has "improved" things so, has made such progress, that Boston now spends yearly $15,114,389.73 (auditor's report 1875-6), which means that out of every man, woman, and child of Boston was taken in 1875, for public expenses, the sum of _forty-four dollars_! The happiness resulting from this may be partly understood when I relate that this tax is some four hundred per cent. greater than the "effete aristocracies" of Europe have ever got out of their down-trodden serfs, or have even dared to try to get. One other charming effect of this style of self-government (?), as we please to call it, is, that it has driven out of Boston a set of bloated money getters, who fancy it is not pleasant to pay large taxes, so they go to Nahant, and Barnstable, and Concord for a few months, and rid Boston of themselves and--their taxes! Shrewd fellows those Boston Democrats! They know how to _govern_ a city. So they do in New York. So they do in Cambridge.