New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-08-15
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hlhted BY the census 81 Io'V' IA I'm
carlson Of the two States viii b. found II
structiye.
Missouri lad been a State thirty years
when the census was taken; Massachl-
sets was one Of the original members Of
the Confederation When the former wss
admitted into the Union in 1920, she mum
bercd &C 5s6 sonis and the latter 5'3'S5'.
Missouri has now more than ten times the
populstiop she had then, while IN these
thirty years the people Of Massachus ett'
have not quite doubled in number. This Is
not surprising. Massachusetts, Ia point Of
soil and climate, is one Of the least favored
States, and Missouri one Of the most. The
natural tendency Of men, as they grow
rich and strong, Is to 90 from the poor to
the rich soils, and hence it Is to be expect
ed that Missouri should grow faster than
her eastern sister. The miracle Is, that
with her soil and climate, and with richer
lands and more genial airs to attract her
children elsewhere, Massachusetts, should
have gained as she has.
This State rcckOned, in 1910. $4,000 IN
habitants 70 day she has $4,000, the rate
Of increase being 81 per cent. from 1880
to 1910 it was 20i per cent. and from 1920
to 1880 it was lG4 per cent. The rate OF
increase is thus largely augmenting. This
is TO be attributed g the attraction which
the progress Of wealth and Improvement III
agriculture, as wei a. in manufactures ex-
erciscs upon population. In Vermont, whore
manufactures are vet to be established to
any considerable extent the increase TOR
each of the two last decades has been but
A per cent, while in Rhode Island, as we
have shown IN a previous article, the growth
of manufactures, together with the excel
lent and truly popular character OF the
legislation, has produced an increase OF II
per cent Massachusetts counts 0,702 nan
ufacturing establishments, producing yearly
$500 and upward This gives one to each
I02 persons but no other State has so many
large establishments Rhode Island has one
to each I63 persons.
Massachusetts, contains an area OF J,392,-
goo acres, and accordingly numbers one
person to each 5! acres of her sod. She
can easily support five times as many, aud
at the present rate, another half century
will have carried her population up to that
figure.
Agriculture in this State IS generally IA
. more advanced condition than elsewhere
IN the Union, though perhaps We may except
Rhode Island. 4 great dealis constantly done
for the improvement of the soil, and com
paratiyely little is done to exhaust II without
condensation. There are 33,9S9 farms uR-
der cultivation. or one TO every 30 persons;
IN Rhode Island there is one 20 each y IN
Vermont one to each 10! in Maine one to
each lO} in South Carolina one to each
"a; in New York one to each l2l.
Missouri has an area capable OF sustaining
population of thirty-fve millions. She
had. in 1920, Sc, 800 inhabitants, and for ten
years increased little more than 100 per
cent, giving her l4O,4l5 in 1880; for the
next decade her rate of increase was l1S
per cent, giving her 3s3,7O2 in 1870 and
now She counts Gs2,0li, making the rate of
increase only ~ per cent, which IS vast
falling off from either of the previous de-
cadeS.
This State has now S7,i22 slaves; ten
wears since she had js,240; their rate of
increase has accordingly been 80 per cent.
from 1890 to 1910 il exceeded 100 per cent
Now as then, however. the slave population
increases more slowly than the free This
points unerringly to the destiny of Missouri
a. a white State, while South Carolina and
the Others in that latitude are As evidently
destined to be black States. That is to say,
in the one white viii be the predominant
complexion, and in the other black. Ms
souri, has 2,5il free colored people IN $50
she had I,574. She has 96,S0j dwellings,
by which is meant those OF the free popula-
ton, no account being taken of the number
of those occupied by the slaves. This fact
we were not aware OF in writing our former
articles, in which the proportion of people
TO houses in the slave States was spoken Of
Missouri counts, then. TO her Zoe. free fam
lilies. Slaves Of course have no families the
patriarchal Institution comforting that luxury
on the patriarch or master, but not on the
slave,) 9e,sO5 houses. making about 1000
eases inwhch there is more than one familv;o
adwelling, smaller number proportionately
than In Vermont, Maine or New-York. In