Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1883-01-19
STATEHOOD FOR DAKOTA.
Tho Subject Fairly Presented-Tacts, Fig
ures and Conclusions Given.

>A.S
ures and Conclusions Given.
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
No state in the union, when admitted,
had as large population as Dakota has
now, with the exception of Maine and
West Virginia, and they had never been
territories themselves, but prior to ad-
mission had been parts of other states.
Vermont, when admitted, had S5,425
people; Kentucky had 81 ,247; Tennessee,
10000; Ohio, $4,000; Louisiana, 41,OOO;
Indiana, 63,00O; Alabama, $4,000; Illi-
nois, $4,000; Missouri, $4,000; Arkansas,
$4,000; Michigan, 71,O00: Florida, 81, 900;
Texas 100000; Iowa, 1919; Wisconsin,
$4,000; California, 92,307; Minnesota,
$1,000; Oregon, $4,000; Kansas, 1O7, 600;
Nevada, 10000, and Colorado, $1,000.
1t is only necessary, under the present
apportionment act, that state should
have at least population of $4,000.
Dakota stands at the door with 100000
people-a greater population than either
Of the three states of Colorado, Della
ware and Oregon had at the last census.
There were 400 postoffices in the pro.
posed state of Dakota on Dec, /, 1882, of
which forty. eight are money order offices.
The postal receipts for the year ending
June 80, 1882, were $l5O,OOO. For the
same period there were two states that
yielded smaller revenue-Delaware
with $4,000 and Nevada $4,000.
Seven states have each less number
of postoffices than Dakota. The state of
Delaware has but lis; Nevada but 1913;
Rhode Island, ll6; Oregon, 81; Florida,
371; Connecticut, 454, and New Hamp-
shire, 467.
Dakota, with 500 pestofIices to-day,
will have 600 year hence.
Only two states in the union-and
those two are Iowa and Nebraska, in
clined to "stalwartism" themselves-can
boast of less persons, in proportion to
population, who cannot read or write,
Dakota being given the third place on
this roll of honor, or the reverse, by CEN
sus bulletin No. 303. The percentage Of
those who cannot read is "a in Nebraska,
2.5 in Iowa, and 81 in Dakota.
In 1880 the people of Dakota wrote %
letters for each inhabitant, the people OF
Iowa % letters apiece, and the people of
Ohio %, the list continuing on down be.
low Indiana, with an average of but is
letters. Only two states, New York and
Colorado, led Dakota in letter-writine
that year, and it is doubtful whether
they have maintained their prestige
since.
The high average intelligence of the
people of Dakota is easily explained
They who are the Dakotaians of to-day
have been largely drawn from the pro.
gressive populations of Wisconsin, Iowa
Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New York
their number including, besides, a liberal
sprinkling from dozen other states.
The per cent Of foreign-born popula-
tion in Dakota is less probably, than in
any other state or territory. What for
eigners have come to Dakota have beer
brought there principally by the North
ern Pacific railroad, and upon the DIV
ision of the territory but few of then
will be in Dakota ut all. having settled
along the line of that great thorough
fare, in northern Dakota.
A reasonable estimate places the mum
Der of Foreigners resident in Dakotl
proper at loss than 5 per cent of th,
! population, and the 95 per centun
American-born is strongly tinctured Will
the hest blood we have in our veins.
Your Yankee, nm emigrant from tn
pent.up Utica OF his Puritan ancestr,
and associations. and an immigrant +
the practical Utopia-in the sense of a,
embodiment Of the fundamental prime,