Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-01-18
THE FUTURE AMERICAN.

The statistical experts at Wash
ington reckon that tue population Of
the United States in 1890 will be 64,-
100000. This is an increase Of only
% per cent for the decade, and it
will probably prove an Hnderesti-
mate, as only once during the cen
tury has the percentage fallen be-
low 33. 1t dropped to % in the
civil war decade, but with that eS-
ception we have had at the end of
every decade since 1900 an average
gain of over a third on the popula-
tion at the end of the previous de-
cade. If we hold that rate we will
have over 87OOO,OOO people at the
of the year 1900.
FIVE behave peaceably, keep our
gates open on the old ideas of hos
pitality and allow the birth rate to
keep its normal advantage over the
death rate, children who are now
alive may live to see $50, 100000 peO-
pie within the present boundaries of
the United States.
With present conditions unchang-
ed, says the Missouri Republic,
the American people of 1888 will
have in them the blood of all Eu-
rope. There is now taking place in
the United States such reunion
as the world never saw before--a
reunion of members of the same
family, separated for from 1000 to
1900 years, as far as we can count
it or guess it. Those who have
learned all it has been possible to
learn thus far of the subject assert
that, with the exception of n tribe
in the mountains of Spain, the DIFF
ferent peoples of Europe, including
the old Greeks and Romans, were
all blood kin within the first degrees
of kinship. Englishman and Irish
man, Frenchman and German,
Scandinavian and Russian are all of
the same kith and kin-people of
one blood, and, broadly speaking, of
one language,
During nearly the whole OF our
area they have been reuniting to
some extent, but only as an incident
of war and conquest. In Great
Britain the Dane, the Saxon, the
Norman Frenchman have reunited
in blood, ,assimilating the Celtic strain
I'm the old British and the Celts of
Scotland and ireland. In France
the Celtic blood Of the Latanized
Gaul absorbed the Frankish strain
and left no trace of It, and under
similar conditions in other European
countries a similar result has been
reached.
1t is only here, however, that these
long divided brethren have met to
shake hands. AS FAR back as history
goes, they have never met before on
eommon ground or on ground claim.
ed by one or the other without fight
ing. Here they meet and live to-
gether, and rs there is no aristocracy
established by law and carefully
guarded against intermixture, here
they will intermarry until the future
American will have in his veins
new supply of the blood OF his
grandfather OF the hundredth gem
Grafton.
We are told, and we may believe
it easily II we care TO do so, that be-
fore history began there was a little
tribe of white men somewhere in
the mountains of Asia near the Oxus
River; that they left in small de-
tachments, one after another turn
ing towards Europe and taking |
possession of II, "A tribe at time, |
with centuries between the migra-
tons, until after centuries moro of
increase by births aud decrease by
natural death or throat-cutting, they
became European peoples as Euro
pean peoples are to-day.
In the United States the people OF
the British-Danish-Dutc Norman-
lrish-Sc0ttish strain Of Great Britain |