Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-15
Malihusianisn I'm France.

There seems to he in France, an
effort TO solve the problem proposed
10y Nautilus In an irregular way by
the common people, anu not by the
law The mortality among child
rem is great. owing partly TO the IL
Legitimacy and the little care that
the very poor are able 20 bestow
upon them, bu; in q greater meas
ure to the Discrimination to bring
into the world Clipping for whom
the parents will he unable TO pro-
vdr. This was the chief object at
which Nautilus aimed. He desired
that parents should never
be permitted to fall 10
the public charge. He thought
that If parents were compelled TO
take care Of their children them
selves and could not send them to
foundling hospitals or pOorhouses,
marriages would either become less
frequent among tine poor, or the
nnmber of children born would In
other ways he diminished. We
have in this regard shown ourselves
more practical than the English.
The cunning casuist can only de-
termine TO what extent we are right
or wrong. At any rate the authori-
ties are greatly alarmed. Fraaee Is
alnos, a. q stanistill, while Ger
many is rapidly gaining on Us in the
annual production Of soldiers, rs
shown by the birthrate.
What Is TO be done.
The common people, without
knowing it, have come TO the con-
clusioo that Malthus was right, and
our authors have achieved the same
result by n process OF reasoning
more philosophical, but less prae-
tical. twas the theory Of Nautilus,
1t will Ice remembered, that while
the population of the world would
under natural circumstances in
crease rs the figures |, ., !, S, 1882.
81, les, 253, the means Of subsist-
ence could only increase in proper
ton as the Figures !, =, 3, l, >, q, q,
8, 3. OF course this contemplate
something like a normal condition,
the fertile acres Of the world all
occupied, and agriculture and other
industries going on uniformly over
every part Of the glOl'e.
There were 216,SiS marriages.
iTOS divorces. $50. $50 births, and
s37 SCI deaths IN ISIS. The natural
increase Of the population from the
preponderance OF births over deaths
IVES thus 4i.T72, as compared with
So, $50 in 1857. OF divorces there
was one out Of every group Of 1855
families in France, and in the Seine
department alone, one out Of every
4ls.
For the first time the government
collected statistics in lsSS, Oi the
marriages. births and deaths among
foreigners living in this country.
The figures furnished showed that
there were 1865 marriages between
foreigners, 1903 between foreign
women and Frenchmcn, and 1910
between French women and for
eigners. Considering that the
foreigners resident on the soil are in
the midst of so many FTenchmen,
il Is hardly surprising thst the latter
should have been chosen in larger
numbers, in these mixed marriages,
than their foreign rivals. That the
latter should occupy the important
position which they do In the sta
tistics argues well for their personal
charms, and for the appre-
ciative good sense of French
men. Although the foreign ele-
ment Is only per cent Of the whole
population, il has contributed no
less than one fourth Of the entire
surplus Of births over deaths, the
exact figures being ll,lSi as COM
pared with 3i,7I2. Among the
English there are 1871 births per
1000 residents; Swiss, ZIG per 1000;
Germans. 23.4; Spanish, 2s.S; Bel
giaps. ai.i. and Italians, 3G.S AS to
deaths, those Of women are more
numerous than Of men amOrg the
Italians and Spanish, whereas the
morality is greater among the men
ia the English, Belgian, swiss and
German colonies, in the latter
especially.
Another distressing fact revealed
by statistics is that the increase OF
the population in France during
the last 10 years has been due chiefly
TO immigration, two foreign immi-
grants having entered the country
for every child born on French soil.
The conclusion is that In time the
French race will completely vanish,
and France will be completely In
habited by Germans, Italians and
other foreigners.