St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-24
INTERPOLATION.
Gernany,s Yearly Increase S"'passes
Other European Countries.
(From the Contemporary Review

Germany,s Yearly Increase SURPRISES
Other European Countries.
(From the Contemporary Review.)
Germany is growing fast pre-eminently
industrial country, for which the export OF
its productions Is the condition of providing
the population with food and raw materials,
and at the same time her population is in
creasing more rapidly than that OF any other
country. The average yearly increase on
10, 900 inhabitants since 1881 was in France
26, in Great Britain 101, in Germany ll5,
notwithstanding large emigration. Inc
population of the German Empire In us
present limits was In round nun beers 25, OO0,-
600 in 1916; 1t is now As, $50, 900, while 81
500, 900 have emigrated. This increase re-
suits almost exclusively from the excess OF
births over deaths, while the feeble growth OF
the French population is still partly due 70
emigration, which proves that the increase OF
wealth is stronger than that OF the people.
| In Germany it is the reverse, the amount Oh
expenditure caused by the acceding numbers
| is not equaled by correspondingly growing
income. In Prussia the number OF those
exempt from all direct taxes-i. e., whose
income did not exceed e25, had risen within
| five years by 1,500, 900; it was more than y
OO0, 600 in 1882; the statistics Of other Ger
rates have increased everywhere in an alarm
ing proportion, and the number Of Migrants
and tramps have become general plague.
Our industrial production suffers from
chronic plethora, its net produce does not
correspond to its immense expansion, still
less is real amelioration of the situation or
the working classes to be discerned. The
supplyiof labor generally exceeds the demand ;
! consequently wages do not rise, and the lower
strata of the population can absorb com para
lively little of the mass OF products which are
daily thrown upon the market, because the
| scantness of their earnings does not allow
them to satisfy corresp ondingly their wants
| But in the higher classes, also, all the CALI
| ings are overcrowdtd, the increase OF acad-
einical students has been abnormal aud far
exceeding the demand, and a onsiderable
part of this surplus of trined forces, finding
no employment, perishes or launches into
adventures. In short, everywhere we ind an
enhanced struggle for existence, which en-
gendcrs dissatisfaction and hopelessness,
and furnishes social democracy with fresh
recruits. 1t is this overpopulation which Is
the source Of the large German emigration
True, without it the pressure would still be
stronger, yet the opinion which would con-
slider this outflow as an unmixed boon is er-
reneous. Germany has comparatively more
children under Is years than any othel
country-1G, Ol6, 045 in population Of A.,
500. O00-and they represent unprotectivt
elements to be sustained By the rest. With
the emigration it is very different; AS pc
cent of it belongs to persons of 20 to A
wears: thus the same number of emigrant
represents much larger sum of force of 10
bour than the corresponding number of the
average population. We educate at grea
expense productive forces in order to lose
them when they are grown to maturity, anc
the foreign countries t. which they go REAP
what we have sOwn.