The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1889-10-26

898 inhabilants, or about the same
number per square mifs 40 England.
In 1890 tina negro population willbe,
It Ia believed, about {, 000, 600, or one
oighthsof the total, bat at the accepted
rate Of Increase Of the African, the ne.
groes will, in 1890, number 81, 957 ,OOC
or only one fourteenth nof the whole.
The tendency Of population to gather
continue. Assuming this TO b. the
case, our cities in 1880 will contain
240, 600 GOO Inhabitants. New York ia
credited with a. many - 80. 000, 900.
The conception of q city with 80.
4 coo, 600 10 % muchs beyond anything Ia
human experience that It deies ali
practical confederation. We know OF
no city larger than London. There
was, 30 far sas the records 60, never
any other city 20 great. Vossius and
perhaps some other writers have esti.
mated the extreme population Of Rome
In the time Of Augustus at 40 much q /
10, 600, 600 people, but Gibbon aflrms
that there is no evidence direct or cir
cums'autial,that can justify tho belief
that Rome had more than $780,
900.
London and the great cities Of Asia
are situated on the banks Of navIgable
rivers. Without such natural faclll
ties for transportation II would have
been impossible before tho epoch of
railways to feed such q population.
Now, with ample railroad commune
cations, particularly in rich country
like the United States, there wouldsbe
no difficulty In provitiing . food sup
ply for any number Of people, In
America, too, there are great rivers
and lakes which furnish natural water
ways fos the inland cities.
With . population Of q thousand
million souls In the habitable limits.of
the United States the productive pow.
ers Of our fertile soil would bo taxed to
the utmost, and we .w0uld begin 10
realize the dream OF Malihus. who
taught that the food-producinR power
Of the earth will finally become sx-
hausted, so that Q vast body Of popu.
lation must necessarily starve to death.
Science has, however, done 90, much
In the way of fabricating food material
out. OF waste matter that We may hope
for still further triumphs Ia that way.
The day will come when there will be
no garbage, no Stops, no waste. Ev-
erything will be utilized. Possibly We
will, under such circumstan over,
come our natural horror OF caunibalism.
and 80 even employ the dead of our
species for the benefit of the living. |
Science is wonderful revOlutiOnist. |
1t constantly opposes the actualities of |
matter to sentiment, religion, princi-
pie and thought. II we can only be
brought to consider everything from q
strictly material point of view then
is extiDguished, love be.
comes carnalism, religion q myth and
principle must give way to the necee-
stiles Of animal existence. Then we
will no longer be troubled with incon.
venient pejudices.
Such population as General Meigs
fgures out would be contrary to all
human experience. There will be
wars, pestileuce and other destructive
agencies that will be utilized BY ma !
ure to keep down excessive popula- !
Ion. The worn out lands of the old | I
'tates already warn us that the food. d
capacity Of the country hos r
to limits. Sentiment and religion, n
which have survived every 4
ySM "a our 8iODe'6 wonderful
areer, will still be spared to save Us
'om eating our kind. Love will Re.
lain to inspire the warrior and the
oct and to delight our species with
s almost celestial illusions. In a
'ord, all the forces Of soul and matter tt
I'LL conspire to prevent the overpeo.
ling OF the earth, and when all else
ball fall to stay the tide OF excessive Is Is
uDan life, there will intervene con- q,
ulsions az nature, overwhelming by to
Jeans, subversion of continents. vast az
I'd terrible outbreaks Of subterranean
res, when new earth will be pre-.
red for mans use, aud remnant Of ei
q human race will be spared TO peo- &c &c
9 It. Nature has remedy for ev, W
evil. Even man IL to be blotted 70
It when he becomes pestilent yer. an an
In. m
The same old msids who 20 10 the
me Saratoga year alter year aud sit q, ni
the springs with A wafer,nO p,aco | W.