The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-02-04
%rt''tp'1 department.
BY UCHARLT CHRISTOPHER
Over Fifty Millions.

over NAlllOhSs
The estimate taken from the aggre-
gate of the census returns Indicate that
the United States has a population of
over $4,000 900. These returns have
been placed officially before Congress,
and the gigantic increase of over II ,OO0,-
900 inhabitants since the last decade:
becomes authoritatively, source OF
especial admiration to the American
citizen. A vast number of the wave
swell of population has come from for
eign countries, while the home increase
has been alike immense. The colored
race in the South, whose disintegration
was years ago predicted to take place
more rapidly than that of the poor
Indian, has, on the contrary, been in
creaslng, and the figures in the census
department reveal that a greater per
cent of growth has been obtained by
them than the white race.
With figures seemingly SO accurate
and facts so clearly deducible, what a
number of political ideas arise there
from! Here, for instance, in the
South the negro has more rapidly null
tiplied than the white race, despite the
dominancy of the Democratic party,
which, the Republican party urged,
would be curse to their growth and
prosperity. 1t is IL well known fact to
mortuary statistical observers that the
mortality of the poor and impccunious
is much greater than the rich. An cs
innate upon the subject recently came
under our observation showing that
nearly four-fiths of infants born to en-
joy comfortable surroundings and care,
live, while only about one fifth of those
born to the poor, survive. This would
then seem to substantiate the asserted
assumption of the bettered condition OF
the colored race, and therefore readily
corroborates the inference that their
present relationship is far more condu-
Give to their prosperity and multiplied
ton, than under any other circum-
stances.
In their temporal, moral, political
and religious states, they must have
improved alike, for these are the natu-
raj concomitants of wholesome deve'-
opment, since they have no resource
from immigration to replenish their
ranks. They live more comfortably,
they are better paid, and acting in con-
junction with the interests of the white
man they consequently share the re-
ward of this identification Of thought
and purpose.
Politically, the negroes act unhamp-
cred and have been acting thus for
years, and the murders which dema-
gogucs would show up to the extent of
having decimated their ranks, from
the figures before u.s. more than stulti-
tics their oft-repcatcd avowals.
But there arc other thoughts. What
Il task lies before Congress and our fu-
turo statesmen in controlling this vast
machinery of CONSTITUTIONAL! govern
ment-this wonderful fabric of Demo
cratic sovereignty! The enlighten-
ment which has followed in the wake
of this gran,lly progressive nation calls
for Il character of craftsmanship unlike
that of even quarter century past.
The vast network of railroads sweeping
the bosom of our country in every di-
rection, rcpr, senting in their annual
extension and business the accumula-
ton and Capitalization of capital in
powerful corporations, demands limi-
tation of their dangerous monopoly.
The moncycd nahobs who can and do
sacrifice patriotism FOR the furthcrance
OF partisan ends and who throw their
boarded wealth made from the taxes
of the people into the scale to decide