Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-14
a million that they will be examined in

a million that they will be examined in
detail by any one outside of the clerks
who foot the totals of the statistics. And
if there was any likelihood of any prying
inquiry there is little or nothing recorded
that any one should be ashamed to have
put on record, while disclosure of the record
is made crime.
1t is in the power of the people to
greatly aid the 'Enumerators by prepare
ton for their visits, so that when an Off
Ger calls he will find the responses to his
questions on the tongues end of all whose
duty it is to give them. 1t is the part of
good citizenship, therefore, to look up
family and household statistics, and make
such notes as memory may not furnish off
hand. The Enumeration will ask, and has
the right to demand, and in case of resist
ance to call in the aid of the law to COM
pei compliance with his requests, the
Christian name of every member of the
family; the initial name of each one; the
occupation of the head of every family
or household, and of all its members
whether the head of the house was a SOL
dier at any time in the service of the ma
ton, or sailor, and in what branch of the
army or navy the service was rendered
whether there is in the family the widow
of any such person; the name and age at
the nearest birthday of every person
who lives in the house, whether it is
family residence or boarding house. On
thlspoint proprietors boarding houses and
lodging houses, can, by Encouragement
with their guests, render efficient service
to the Enumeration. The color of every
person must be noted, whether white,
black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chi
nese, Indian, half-breed, etc; also, the fact
must be stated if any member of the house
hold is absent from the State or city on
visit, or with intention to return, and how
many, if any, related to the house are res
idents of other States or parts of this
'CAHeSs iNOopOuoC iuuSl De Uldu6 10 the
questions as to whether any of the house
hold are naturalized citizens; where each
one was born; the place of birth of the
father and the mother of each one; the
months each one is employed in the year,
based upon the experience of the past
year; how many attend school, and for
how many months in the year; how many.
if any, cannot read, how many cannot
write, and how many can neither read nor
write. 1t must be stated if any member of
the family is suffering from any chronic or
acute disease; whether any in the house
hold are deprived of any of the FIVE senses,
and whether any were born blind or deaf
or dumb, and whether any are crippled or
MANNED. There are some other questions
of similar character that the good of
society require should be correctly an
swered, and refusals to answer which are
in the nature of offenses, punishable under
the law.
1t will be seen that there are many of
these questions that cannot be answered
readily on being first propounded; it is
therefore important that the people pre-
pare themselves intelligently to respond to
the inquiries of the Enumerators. The
Government regards all responses as
strictly confidential, and Enumerators will
be punished for disclosing them to any
person, except officially in their reports.
The data only is published, not the de-
tai ed facts, and hence the records in
Washington are not open to the search of
any except the census officials and the
committees of Congress. There has never
been an instance of these confidential re-
lations having been violated, and there is
very little likelihood that it will beat
least not one in hundred thousand
Enumerators will prove treacherous, for
the inducement for violation is small and
the punishment is severe for such offenses.