The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-02-06
FRANCE AND GERMANY COMPARED.
Figures That Indicate the Tendencies Of tho
Two Nations.

< Figures That Indicate the Tendencies of Il
i Two Nations.
M. Paul Leroy-Beaulieu has recent
made an interesting comparison be
tween the industrial population o
: France and Germany, taking as tex
the "Resultats Statistiques du Demon
brement de 1881" for the former coun
try, and the "Statisches Jahrbuch, flu
das Deutsche Reich" for the latter
On the 9Th of June, 1882. the date O.
the "Jahrbuch" the population of the
German empire was 1922, 113, while
that of the French republic, Dec. 1S
1881, was 81, 622, 048-Germany, there
fore, being about z, 100000 to the good
and that at faster increasing ratio
than France, seeing that the excess OF
births over deaths in 1882 was 525, 200
in the one country, and only 100, 900 or
SO in the other. While bearing in
mind that Germany is given to emigra-
ton and France to immigration, the
former population may be said to in
crease at the rate of $50, 900 per an
mum, and of the latter at the rate of
$50, 900. Each decade sees some 2,O0O,-
600 people moro in the German pro-
portion than in the French, SO that by
the time we reach the year 1900 the
excess will be close upon 1900, 900.
A comparison of the occupations of
the two countries shows some striking
differences, owing to the habits and
temperament of the different nations,
although it is difficult to arrive at
strict classification, because in France,
more than in most countries, persons
are often found figuring in two or
three capacities. 1t often happens,
for instance, that landowner in tho
country (and returned as such) is
lawyer or doctor in the city, while in
the lower strain of society weaver is
as often as not an agricultural laborer
when textiles are slack, and many a
house domestic helps his employer in |
the fields or in his Office, being by |
turns a servant, farm bailiff, or a |
clerk. These, however, are difficult
ties incidental to all census returns,
more or less. The number of those
who live by farming or forestry in
Germany, including women and chill
1ren, is 1925, 455, the same great
class in France representing 18,249,-
209; no very great difference when we
consider the relative similarity of sur
ace, which in Germany is $4,000
quare kilometers, and in France $685.
NO, though the difference becomes
when we take into &C S
count 100000 extra population.
IN the other hand, the difference is
essened by the fact that children are =
much more abundant in Germany than :
n France. 1t is. however, when we .
onsider the manual industries that .
be greatest divergence appears. Min =
lg, building, and handicraft trades
enerally employ 16, 058, 080 persons in
GERMANY, while in France all indus c
les, grandes ct petites, put together, Z
i've occupation to only 1924, 10Y, and c.
lis undoubtedly gives the keynote to 81
le greater activity and development IL
the life of the people in the German b
npire. Commerce and the carrying I
ade, including shipping, railways,
I'D bookkeeping, employ 1851, 080 bt
dividuals in Germany, and in this OF
spect it is outstripped by France, II
Notwithstanding that the railway mile bs
Re is less, and that the Germans are W,
'toriously the greater travellers of the co
70. The army, navy, gendarmerie,
ID police comprise in France 432, ia, on
Q addition of the wives and families a-
inging the number up to 552, 851. In On
,rmany the army alone numbers III
l 1886, or, with the families, 542, 282. oo
le number of functionaries and Off ~
lis, together with the professions, "
3, in the latter country, 579, 1862, and
this respect again France heads the SO
with $4,000. Germany contains In
'22, 223 persons without profession, phi
d this army is reinforced by women to
d children, bringing it up to 1,908,- thu
}, in addition to which a class con- ga
ting of those preparing for work, tel
n as students and apprentices num-
: 337, 900, while there are also $685. pr
which include housekeepers, day
wants, and the like. France has stu
y 737,0S8 actually without pro- I'll
sion, but has 2,121,17 living on He
ir means, which is tantamount to sa,
same thing; and there is small liza,
oh OF 81, S16 of professions i'aconnues, "Y
lch, if all the secrets were known, did
uld form remarkable series of I d
Citations. The number of those who min
on their means (U0n etqenen, Yer 7
7en) in Germany is placed at $685. ma
, which is very considerably less on.
n the French contingent, and tells soa
avor OF the Germans, as possessing "cI
idle ones in household. Domes- feu
service 10 France employs 1857, 266, roo
whom from LOG, 404 men and 281 $3.50 fsc
men are returned as attendants in GO !,
els and restaurants. The domestic snl,
IS in Germany is only 2,324,924. the
occupations depending upon eat tim
drinking, and lodging comprise II
1850 individuals in France, as nm !.
inst 756,647 in Germany, a fact a ~.
CHI will be potent to those who are T I;..I
tainted with the two countries and lis1
W the different degrees of estima- soa1
in which the art and graces of liv- lao lao
are held. pes