The Iola register., 1890-11-07
raElF4a CENSUS.
Complete Returns of All the states and
Territories-The Population Of the coun-
try Not Quite 63. OOo, 900.

Complete Returns of All the ststcs and
Territories Population Of the Coun-
FRY Not Quite O., ,OOo, 900.
WAsHISeToS Nov. THE twelfth OF the
series os census bulletins was issued yes.
terdsy on the population of the United
States. The bulletin SAYS: "The population
OF the United States on June l, 1890, as SHOWN
by the first count of persons ard families,
exclusive of white persons In Indian Terri
tory, Indians on reservations and Alaska,
was 81. 5ia These figures may be slightly
changed by later and more exact compii-
ations, but such changes will not be ma
terial In 1889 the population was 50, l5S tea
The absolute increase OF the population IN
the ten years Intervening was II ,s2i, fo1 ana
the percentage OF Increase was 2L5L In lsio
the population was stated at e,55s,s.l Ac-
cording to these figures the absolute In
crease IN the decade between 1870 ana 1881
was II, ,5I7, 4l2 and the percentage of Increase
was 3L0a Upon their face these figures
show that the population has increased be-
tween 1880 and 1891 only E,545 more than
between 1870 and 1880. while the rate OF in
crease has apparently diminished from S0IS
90 2457 per cent If these figures were de-
rived from incorrect data they would be
disappointing. Such a reduction in
the rate of increase in the face
of the enormous immigration dur
ing the past ten years would argue a
great dimnution in the fecundity OF the
population or a corresponding increase in
its death rate. These figures are, however,
easily explained when the character of the
data is under TODD. 1t Is well known, the
fact having been demonstrated by extensive
and thonIuRh Investigation, that the census
OF 1870 was grossly deficient in the Southern
States, so much so as not only to give an ex-
aggerated rate of increase OF the population
between 1870 and 1870 in these States, but to
affect very materia lv the rate of increase in
the country at large"
"There is but little question" continues
the bulletin. "that the population of the
United states in 1917 was at least 40e01, 600
instead cf 80 55S 81 a. stated. If this esti-
mate # the extent of the omissions in 1870
be correct the absolute increase between
$50 and 1850 was only about 10 t0i 900 and the
rate of increase was not far from % per
cent These figures compare much more
reasonably VITA similar deductions from
tho population in 1880 and 1891 OmItting
from consideration thosa States in which
the censutdf 1850 l. known or is presumed
to have been faulty, the rate of increase
between 1870 and 1850 in the remaining
States has been very nearly maintained in
the decade between 1850 and 1890 Referring
to the principal table of taie bulletin the GEN.
sus Of ls91 is known or is presumed to have
been deficient in nearly all ths States
of South Atlantic and Southern Central div
visions while in the North Atlantic, n oI thern
Central and Western divisions no evidence
of incomp tteness has been detected. The
populations of these three last named d.
visions in 1s7J 1850 and 1890, the absolute in
crease for the two decades and the rate of
increase is set forth in the following table: