Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1882 — Canting Hypocrisy. [ARTICLE]

Canting Hypocrisy.

For canting hypocrisy, says the Grand Rapids Democrat , the average Republican Congressman bears the bell. Horr’s late jeremiad over the utter wickedness es gerrymandering (in South Carolina) is a fair specimen. The Chicago Timeß pays its attention to him in the following caustic manner: Mr. Horr of Michigan said in the House, the other day, that ho looked with horror upon an apportionment in South Carolina which made one district of about 187,000 inhabitants and another of about But Mr Horr of Michigan, if he will look over the apportionment scheme of his own. State, will find districts to range from 104,000 to 178,000 ; and our own Illinois apportionment, adopted as a rule of the dominant canons, makes districts of from 129,000 to 186,000. The smaller districts of Illinois—and there are thirteen out of twenty below tne equalized ratio—are carved for Republican districts, and are portions of the State in which the least growth of population has been made in the last ten years. Does Mr. Horr of Michigan look with horror upon a scheme which in eight Northern States is calculated to confer on 1,800,000 Republican votes the choice of 90 Congressmen,. and upon 1,600,000 Democratic votes the choice of but 21 ? The tea crop of India ten years ago was 17,900,000 pounds; this year it is 61,619,000 pounds. Of all tins, only about 1,600,000 pounds are consumed in India. England takes the most of it; only about 3,000,000 pounds of it their way to this oountry.