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To ascertain what portion OF this is the regular
and natural increment of our people, let US reason
by analogies upon similar data.
In France, where the population is systema-
tlcay cassed, so TO ascertain not merely the
numbers but the sexes, condition., births, and
deaths in the respective ACCOMPLISHMENTS, it APP
pears that out of aggregate of 33 100000, the
births were 966, 6,l5l, and the deaths sol ,Sl7
leaving an excess of &c, 1913; and as there is lit
tie no immigration in France, this may he look
ed upon as the annual advance of the legitimate
population of the country. In three years this
would be 499,0l4. If, therefore, the natural ad-
vance of nation having 33 200, 900 of souls, in
three years is only 499,Ol4, while ours with
l2s66,000 gives ,93S, 900 in the same time, it
shows that our number is increased from foreign
sources, at the annual rate of l46,325 permanent
inhabitants above the increase of births over
deaths among ourselues; and hence the necessity
of an increase of provisions by imports
If it is argued that husbandry has increased ny
the extension of our confederacy in the opening
of new States, it might be answered that the dlf-
ference between the products on that account, and
those when our Union was more limited, is abb
sorbed or worse than lost by the employment of
that increase in the dstillalion of spirltuous Ii
quors-an augmentation produced by the great
influx of disorderly subjects from other countries.
England was in 1914 in the same condition
with regard to the demand for grain beyond her
own productiveness that we are now: her pOpula-
ton with its yearly augmentation was confined
by the war to her own territories, and hence vast
mportations Of wheat were made from the Baltic,
and various parts of the continent. 70 remedy
this, and to turn portion of the manufacturing
labor then thrown out Of employ by long wars to
agriculture, as well as to give new confidence in
the landed interest, the Importation of grain from
foreign countries was prohibited by the passage
of what was called the corn laws. Notwithstand-
ing this, however, the consumption was greater
than the quantity raised in that country and
hence the price rose so high as to bring the i'm
portatlon within the exception of the law which
allowed foreign grain to come in when the ave-
rage price in England exceeded 80 shngs the
quarter. Flour therefore. was exported in large
quantities from the United States for that country
as soon as the war was over; and we had been
going on in that commerce, until the redundant
population OF Great Britain changed quarters, and
emigrated to the United States. The consequence
is, that the order of trade between the two ma
uons is now reversed, thev having surplus of
grain, while we are obliged to import | advert
to this to show that we are really placed in this
position by reason of the advance of our popula-
tion by accessory and foreign causes, and that
we either must labor to pay by exports for this
deficiency Of provisions thus imported, to exc out
the necessary amount of our consumption, or else
resort to artificial means to conceal the fact that
the balance of trade in this respect would be large
ly against us.
The rule as laid down by Mr.. Malthus is, that
population naturally increases in geomerical
progression so as to double itself every 25 wears:
but if we compare the slow advance of every
country in Europe with our own in that respect,
it will be seen that, supposing the rule to be
correct, the great increment in the United States
must proceed from extraneous causes.
Thus the population in England and Wales, in
100, was 5,475,OOO
In 90 years afterwards, 1920, it was
only 5,565,OO
Being an increase of only 10000
In 1890 it was S.675,O00
In 1901 it was 9,l6S,OOO
493 900 or about 81
per cent. for 10 years, per cent. in 25 years.
The whole population OF Great Britain and
was 81, ,l93,794; in 1881, it was 21 1856 9S0; be-
ing an increase Of only l4a per cent.
In Ireland, in 1921, Leinster contained 1857, 1872
Munster g 1886 ,6l2
Ulster :" 1898 .494
Conuaught g 1llG,2 ,229
$500, 1927
while in the same provinces there were in 1881
only 7,7s4,536, being an increase of III per
cent. in 10 years, "a per cent. in 25 years. and
therefore below the law of increase as laid down