The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-13
The Future Of the South and West.

| Tine statistics of the census arc full oi
instruction. aud should give heady politi
clans pause. The last decade has not
only made great difference in the rela.
tive rank of the Stc'es rs to population.
it has also opened new vista into the
future Of the chief sections of tho Union
respectively. Sixteen States have gone
lover in the ranks aud six Stntcs go up
higher. Fourteen only hold in 1850 the
same rank which they held in 1870
These are ~ New York, ~ Pennsylvn
mia, (3) Ohio, (-!) Illinois, (5) Missouri.
(6) Indiana, ~ Massachusetts, (9) Ken.
tucky, (l2) Georgia, U4) North Carolina.
l2U Louisiana, ca California, (3l) New
Hampshire, (36) Oregon. Iowa. the
eleventh in 1870, has now become the
ninth, and exactly changes places with
Tennessee. Firginin, that was tenth.
has become thirteenth, and gives place
to Texas, which goes up nine places ut n
bound and puts herself next TO Iowa.
Michigan. that was thirteenth, sinks Ia
the fifteenth place, while Wisconsin falls
one AMI becomes sixteenth in order
Alabama, sixteenth in 1870, hns become
seventeenth; New Jersey in turn cease,
to be esevcntccnth and becomes eighteenth
while Mississippi, which was eighteenth.
falls five in rank and becomes twenty.
third. Maryland falls from twentieth to
twenty-second, while South Carolina
which WAS twenty. first, rises in the scale
two steps and stands nineteenth. irs,
Leading Kansas. Mnine loses six place.
and falls from the twenty-third 10 the
twenty ninth, and Connecticut three
places, falling from the twenty. fifth 10
twcnty.cighth. Arkansas ascends one
step, from twenty-sixth to twenty. fifth
Western Virginia falls two steps, from
twenty-seventh to twenty. ninth. Min
nesOta rises twO from twenty-cighth 10
twenty.sixth. Kansas steps up nine.
from twenty.ninth to twentieth. Yer.
mont falls from thirtieth to thirty.sccond.
Rhode Island from thirty.sccond to thir.
ty.thifd, Florida from thirty.third to
thirty fourth, Colorado comes in as tbir.
ty.filth, and little Delaware-thirty.
fourth in l870-is now tbirty-seventh.
Nebraska ascends from thirty-filth 10
thirtieth, while, oddly enough, Nevada.
with considerable increase of popula
| ton, still remains at the foot of the roll.
The irresistible influences of climate
and soil, 1t will be seen, are telling surely
ut last in favor of tho South and South
west, as all intelligent observers long ago
saw that they would as soon rs the artifi.
cial trammels imposed By the existence
of slavery upon the development of those
regions were removed. The silly and
scandalous efforts Of low partisan Journals
and OF libellous twRddlers like tbs author
of IA Fools Errand" TO fight against
these influences with mere misrepres
| tations of Southern life and the Southern
| nahp,ln n ,.affntt, fn
| Mrs. Partington's war with her broom
against the Atlantic. Tho percentage Of
increase throughout the South during the
past decade stands at 81. .O5, against "a. IS
Ut the North in general, while the per.
ccntage of increase in New England has
been only 1470, and in New York, Penn.
sy,vauiis, Gthi1 n,.;: New JERSEY 1aIen
| together only 1892 The fifteen SO. called
Southern States have added 4, ,277 700 to
their population, and the twelve Western
aud Pacific States only 1851 .8O5. The
absolute increase of Texas since 1870 has
been greater than that of any other State
in the Union, being $4,000 more than
that of Pennsylvania and $4,000 more
than that of New York. Her ratio of
increase has been enormous. Should she
maintain it for the next decade 1890 will
| see Texas running close race with Hi.
nois for the fourth place in the list Of
States. With the impulse sure to be
given her by the immense railway oper.
ations now leading to and concentrating
upon her territory, indeed, Texas is tut
unlikely TO exceed this ratio, and in that
svent Ohio will be hard pushed by her
for the third place. Colorado shows the
most colossal ratio of increase, reaching
3S9,S2 per cent, but this Is obviously alb.
normal, as is also the ratio of 267. .8S in
Nebraska and of 1914 in Kansas. The
only State which shows Ms important n
ratio of increase, resting on causes likely
to endure, as Texas, is Oregon, which has
grown at pace nearly double that of
Caiifornin.-N Y IKorH