Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-01-18
WHAT TEE CENsGs SHOWS.

Sufficient returns have been re-
ceiyed bv the Commissioner OF Cen I
sus TO form correct estimates in regard
to our present population and other
statistics. The first great fact It
teaches IL that for the first time this
century our population falls below the
estimates based on previous ratios. |
Why this is 50, is explainable, IN part,
at least, by the unparalleled sacrlnce
of life during the rebellion, ana also
by the eonseduent reduction of immi-
grafton from abroad during that time.
According to the ratio heretofore OBJ
tained, the United States should have
fOrty-fye millions inhabitants. The
census will barely show forty million.
Another fact to be derived from the
report is this: The principle Increase
in population has been the west.
What gains have been made in the
east have been more generally dis
tributed in the large cities. There
are reasons for this. During the de-
cade lust closed there has been more
general diffusion Of all kinds Of labor
saving machines. The farmer is sup
piled with reapers, mowers, drills,
cultivators, and a hundred other me-
chanieal eOntrivanees, the results Of
the inventive genius Of our country
The household has its sewing ma
chimes, washers and Wringers, pianos,
and so forth. These items, which,
ten years ago, were distributed In isO-
lated cases, have become general.
Nearly every uue pUssesz-z .olie Uf
these, II not all, and the consequence
is, millions Of skilled wOrkmen have
found employment in manUfaetur-
Z ing them. Those manufactures natu-
rally spring up where the finest facili-
I ties exist for distributing them to
every point of the compass, viz: in
the cities. But this increase Of the
cities is not to be deplOred, because it
/ draws a proportion from the rural dis
! triets, thus leaving more competition
for the farmer, who thereby receives
I better pay for his products.
The New England States show the
/ least inerease-in fact New Hamp-
shire has decreased in population
since the last census by eight thOus-
and. Most Of the increase in the
I New England States has been in Mas
sachusetts. New York has gained
very little in the rural districts, tho
her cities have fiourished. Pennsyl-
vania-with one exception, that OF
/ Iliinois-shOws more increase than
any other State east of the Mississippi
Her population has increased from
/ ., 900, lis to $500, ,O0O-being almost
one million.
OF Western States, Illinois takes the
lead-her increase being over eighi
hundred thousand in ten years, while
Missouri stands next to the Sucker
State, her population being l,I22, ,OOl
against !, IS, ,0l2 ten years agO-a gaiI
/ Of over five hundred thousand.
These figures teach another lessor
which must not be lost sight Of
Democratic journals have CONSTANT!
insisted that Missouri has been grounI
under radical tyranny during the las
five years, and yet her increase ii
population during those years Ina
been most astonishing. Does any on
suppose that such would have beel
: the case had no restrictions bee'
placed on the disloyal element ?
Would not Missouri have been a sec
ond edition Of Virginia, MarylRn
, and Kentucky-her prosperity hin
dered by unwiss and impartial legi;
lation, and northern men prescribe
from society? Is any one 50 foe
, hardyas to suppose that Jasparcount
, would have increased from six thOui
and TO fifteen thousand in five year
had it not been for the war and III
: subsequent " Radical tyranny -