Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1862-12-12
our INCREASING POPULATION.
| DO not state these things iuconsider,

We nave maintained on an average iron
our first national census N 1890, until fha
Of 1860, We should in 1900 have 4 popala
Tim Of l03,20S,4l5; and why may we no
continue that ratio far beyond that period
Dur abundant room, Cur broad nationa
homestead, is our ample resource. Wer
our territory as limited ms are the British
lsles, very certainly our population coul,
not expand as stated. Instead of receivin!
the foreign-born as now. we shonld be com
PEELED to send part Of the native-born away
But such Is not our condition. We hav,
2,96S,00O square miles. Europe has 3,
100000 with population averaging rs!
persons 10 the square mile. Why may no
our country, nj some time, average as many
10 il less fertile? Has. il more waste sur
face. BY mountains, rivers. lakes, deserts, OIL
other causes? is it inferior to Europe in
any natural advantage? If, then, we are
1t some time to be as populous rs Europe
how soon? As to when this may be, we
EN- judge BY the past and the present A.
70 when it will, if ever, depends much on
whether we maintain the Union. Several
of our states are above the average Euro
pean population OF 731 TO the square mile.
Massachusetts has l57, Rhode Island 1888,
New York and New Jersey each So also
two other great states, Pennsylvania and
Ohio are not far below, the former having
s., and the latter SO. The states already
above the European average, except New
York, have increased in as rapid ratio since
passing that point as ever before. while no
one of them is equal 10 some other parts
Of orr country in national capacity for sus-
taining dense population.
Taking the nation 10 the aggregate, and
we find its population and ratio of increase
for the several decimal periods to be as fol-
lows: 1890, 3,929,827; 1900, 52O5, 937 !;
35 OF per cent ratio of increase; 1910,
7.239,644; 36 40 per cent ratio of increase !;
1890, 9,63s,l3l; 33 ID per cent ratio of
increase; 1880, 12,s66020; 33 40 per
cent ratio of increase; 1910, l7,069,4 53 !;
" 81 per cent ratio Of increase 1850, 49,
l0I, 676; 80 81 per Ger ratio of increase
1860, 3l,443.790; As 80 per cent ratio of
increase. This shows an average decimal
increase Of "a 60 per cent in population
through the 70 ears from our first to our
last census taken. II Is seen that the ratio
OF increase at no one of these seven peri
DDS is either 2 per cent below or 2 per cent
above the average, thus showing how in
flexible, and consequently how reliable the
law OF increase in our case is. Assuming
That 1t will continue it gives the following
result: 1870, 42,323,35l 1880, $685.
ZIG; 1890, 76,677.972; 1900, 103 20S,-
as; 1910, 13S,9l8,526; 1920, 186,984,-
335; 1880, PSI ,6S0,914. These figures
show that our country may be as populous
as Europe now is, at some point between
1920 and 1880, say about 1925. Our ter
ritory, at 73a persons TO the square mile, is |
of the capacity to contain 2l7, Is6, 000 and |
II will reach this too. if we do not ourselves
relinquish the chances by the folly and evils
Of dsuniun, or by long and exhausting war,
tpringing from the only great element of
national discord among US.
THE RESULTS OF EMANCIPATION.
While it cannot be foreseen exactly how
much one huge example of secession breed
Ing lesser ones indefinitely, would retard
the population, civilization and prosperity,
no one can doubt that the extent of it would
be very great and injurious. The proposed
emancipation would shorten the war, per-
petuate peace, insure this increase Of pop
ulation, and proportionaiely the wealth of
the country. With this we should pay all
she emancipation would cost, together with
our other debts, easier than we should pay
our other debts without it. If we had al /
bowed our old national debt to run at six
per cent per annum, simple interest, from
the end Of our revolutionary struggle till
to-day, without paying anything on either
principal or interest, each man of us would
owe less upon that debt now than each man
owed upon il then, and this because our in
crease of men through the whole period has
been greater than 6 per cent, and has rum
faster than the interest upon the debt. Thus
time alone relieves debtor nation so long
as its population increases faster than an
paid interest accumulates on its debt. This
TACT would be no excuse for delaying the
payment Of what is justly due, but il shows
she great importance of time in this con-
nection. Tire great advantage of policy
oy which we shall not have TO pay until we
number hundred millions, and what, by
different policy, we should have 10 pay now,
when the number is but thirty one millions.
In word, it shows that dollar will be
much harder to pay for the war than will
be dcllar for emanci patton on the pro-
posed plans and then the latter will cost
no blood, no precious life. 1t will be a saw
ing Of both.
As to the second article, think II would
be imp-acticable to return to bondage the
class Of persons therein contemplated
Some Of them doubtless belong to loyal
owners, and hence provision is matle in this
article for conpeusating such.
THE FUTUsE OF THE FREED PEOPLE.
The third article relates to the failure Of
she freed people. 1t does not oblige, but
merely authorizes Congress to aid in colo
MIXING ssch as may consent. This ought
net 10 be regarded as Objectionable on the
one hand or on the other, in so much as
1t comes TO nothing, unless by mutual con-
sent of the people te be depoTted, and the
American voters through their representa-
Sives in Congress. / cannot make it better
known than it already is, that strongly
favor colonization. And yet wish to say
shere is one objection urged against the
colored persons remaining in the country
which is largely imaginary. if not sometimes
malicious. 1t is insisted that their presence
would iujure and dispiace white labor and
white laborers. If there ever could be a
propsr tune for mere arguments, ti,at time
surely is not now. In times Ike the pres.