Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-11-10

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ton and in wealth. but the increase
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ally getting poorer. This has been
the case in several European coun-
tries. The rich have been growing
richer, and the lower class more and
more wretched, until at length some
kind of equilibrium has to be re-
stored by emigration and starvation.
No such unnatural state of things as
this exists, however, in the United
States. In no country in the world
is the aggregate wealth more equally
divided. When we find, therefore,
the population and the wealth show
ing an extraordinary increase, we can
have no difficulty in arriving at the
true progress which the country is
making. When we find, according
to an address recently delivered by
Gov. Andrew of Massachusetts, that
the population of the Republic has
increased during the last ten years
tw enty.tiveper cent, while its wealth
has been showing much larger in
crease, we can form some idea of the
strides which our neighbors arc
making.
awe have" says Gov. Andrew,
"brought under cultivation more
than 50,00O,00O acres of virgin soil,
increased our agriculture by the aid
of machinery, in ratio still greater
than the growth of our population,
built and completed more than 22,-
900 miles OF railway. raising the
amou".:. ?f canital invested in .,,.vsc
, essential means of transportation
from only $496, ,640,148 Gn 1860 to
81, $50, 500, ,S29 Gn 1S6O.) Since the
beginning Of that period of 40 years
Immediately preceding the present
decade, eleven States have been add
CT to the American Union-includ-
ing Texas and California, whose Ter.
ritory since then has been brought
within the dominion Of the United
States. Indiana has risen from
population of l47,17S in 1850 to L.
350,42S in 1860. Illinois in like
manner increased from tho number
of 35. 1862 to the number of ILL., 1851
inhabitants. Wisconsin. whose cen.
sus appears in the record Of 1880 ex-
hibiting only: 5,318 human souls,
rose by the growth of the generation
to which she belongs to 755,881 in
the 4G years that ended in 1860.
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people, during the same period of 40
years, from 81, 557 to 1.1S2,3l2. So
that the waves of the human tide in-
creased in force and volume as they
struck the eastern shores of the con-
tinent. swollen by all the afiluents
of domestic emi igration. transcended
the mountains of the Appalachian
range. swept ON their resistless way.
covering the river bottoms Of the
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rrairies. and gave 90 eiyilixafiou aud
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