Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1875-12-30


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Ever the descrpao0 OF fos'uxuess n. go
BY . letter from Alaoon' poo".ae" !" A11"" I
COTS Magazine Tor January sno rsosn.'y 'a"
Enarised in these columns' Al .ns 'ss'ss wv"
mot beaE out the tnsory snas ""sel..' "-No
are the most virtuous, IL couAd NOV IAN !" oa"se
the anger Of the Morning heTa1d, ano 70 Gall oo'
demonstration that tnas remafAao'e fese1'"i
Of literary skmmings knows very macn mos0
about Portugal than the Portuguese 40. ~nsn
next the Lisbon gentleman describes his country
lie will b. expected, OF course % repair 70 snip
ley street for his data, which will BE- fnrnished
him In chunks, gathered up from the enoyc'ope-
diAs and other handbook u Me snor'e''
notice.
Now our own authority u not involved IN thas
discussion Of Portugal We printed vnas toe
Lisbon gentleman. who 10 considered Oh sum
Gent importance 70 DO aocofoeo pfom'neas
position in one Of tho most carefully ana msein'
gently conducted OF our masaxinsa' 40 Oh nus
own country. The numerous snsefs In inc he''
aids ARTICLE OF yesterday q tho ooAAssciALs
asserted want OF accuracy and knoWleoSe on the
subject arc therefore soareiy inappaoa0As 70 W.
even II they were deserved py inc LISBON iesses'
or II they formed any proper part OF decent dis-
cuanion OF tho subject buh pusung inc AsDon
letter under inspection, n will DO seen tnas the
Herald, assuming TO point ont tho errors OF i@
writer. does nothing OF the sort, but, In ~ own
fsshion, simply vapors and houTishes around.
Let us briefly analyse it crttaossms. IL astAcks'
first, the statement that there has been no ma.
tsriA increase Of the population Of Portugal
since 17s6-or, indeed, for about ono century.
Now what facts does IL bring? Why not what
l manifeatly needed, statement Of the popula'
ton In 1888 or l776, to DO compared with that OF
the present time. but estimates Of what 1t was In
1s22-S0. This In mot to the point. At oil, though
the figures quoted do condrm, - far - they 60,
the Lisbon letters statement that there has been
no time since 1873 whom the population Wa
greater than u that date and now-vix., about
fonr millions.
Then, - 70 the birth-rAte Of Portugal: Ths
Lisbon writer estimated it 1t $50, 900 per annun,
and, - there has been no peroeptible growth In
the total population In spite of this great annual
addition Of infants, he went on to show by what
methods they periahed. The Herald however,
declares him an ignoramus, by the wonderful
process of demonstration that, a. such birth.
rate, applied to Wilmington, would give rs a. 900
babies year, it IL nonsense to talk Of any such
an increase in Portugal We suppose that this
aort Of argument may be expected to convince Z
philsdelphiA quarter sessions Jury, though We
should hope for better things even there. Al .
matter Of fact, the Portuguese writer distinctly
states that he assumes the birth rate Of Portuga
to be equal to that Of portions OF Mexico, where
II 10 asoertained to BE- 8. q per cent per annum
and this assumption, - Mexico, in climate, tn.
character and habits Of its people, &C., closely
resembles Portugal, is certainly not unfair
though, even IL the birtl. rate be reduced, %,
to foe per cent, giving 2OO, 600 infants per an
mum born in Portugal, without increasing the to
tai population appreoiAby, we have yet plctur
Of infanticide frightful enough. A CAREFUL ana
ysis OF tho census returns shows tho tirth-raa
of tho United States to be nearly four Der cant
per annum, and.making due allowance for th
difference in climate, and the difference betwee
moral aud immoral community, there remain
little doubt that the estimate of gal per cen,
in portnoal IN verv nearIv correct-in anita n
what tho Morning Herald thinks it knows abou