The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-10-01
OUR MANY PEOPLE
Present Population Of the United
States and GaiH.
Interesting Facts Concerning Growth
of This Country Ascertained
from Recent Enumera-
tiOn Accounts.

y VINO hau so many children she didn't
1t know what to do" he has so man1
/ that he isn't sure but once in ten years
r what the total number of his offspring
i is, says the New York Herald.
Measured by the per cent. of gain
' between the censuses of 1880 and 1890
e which was 24.6, the population of the
5 United States to be disclosed by the
national ron call, just completed.
should reach a total of n, $50 600 AS
matter of fact, it does not seem likely
that the total win exceed 76.O000 006
and probably will not reach that figure.
Several noteworthy factors have
been at work to effect this. to many.
surprising result Immigration has
fallen off to a remarkable degree. In
the ten years ending June 30, 1890
4,S49OOO persons entered this country
from foreign lands. In the decade
closing with June 80 of this year al
most a million less will have sought an
asylum on Americas shores. These
figures omit the immigrants from Can
ada and Mexico.
The reason for this marked decrease
IN Immigration lies very plainly in the
hard times period of 1S03-94. A small !
Hood of G23,0S4 persons entered the |
United States in the fiscal year of 1892 |
TWO years later the total was barely |
half as great, and so far spread was
the news Of our business and financial
distress that in 1898 the immigrants
were only 220, 0,299, the smallest number
since 1879 An increased total last year
has been followed by greater one this
year, so that the coming decade will
probably see return to the huge i'm
migration figures of the early Sos.
toincident with the decline in i'm
migration. due 10 the business crisis,
must be reckoned decline in the nat
ural growth in population. Adverse
financial conditions operate not ONLY
10 increase the death rate, but also to
decrease the birth rate. Aside from /.
this 1t is a notable fact that the per
cent of natural growth of population
has been constantly and rapidly de-
ereasing in this eouRtry for a whole
century. If we correct the admitted n
errors in the census tables of 1870. il Il
VIII be found that the ratio of increase
OF population Py natural growth in d
each decade has steadily dropped from
1876 in the 1S01=1O period, to 14.1 in the 81
lSSl-9O period. In other words, there II
vas born to the average community Of
1000 inhabitants between 1891 and lsl0 y
'56 children, while to a similar com.
nunity between 1881 and 1890 there p
we're born only 141 children.
10 give a keen point to this plain
ruth that the nation is slowing up. so
9 speak, in its natural growth, the in
efesting state nensuses of 1905 arc Of
ieeided value, Nine states counted
eads in that year. Two in New Eng.
and, Massachusetts and Rhode Island;
ne middle state, New Jersey; one
outhern state, Florida; four middle ~
'estern states, Iowa, Kansas, Mime
ota and South Dakota. and one far
'estern state, Utah. OF this typical
ropp, representing all sections of the
'untry, only one showed an increase
per cent. of population equal to the
be expected half of the increase of
le previous decade, W.
The sole exception was New jersey
hich grew 2T7 per cent, between 1880
I'd 1890, and 1871 per cent. between
W and 1925. Two causes may explain 4
is increased ratio OF growth-prox-
llty to New York city, which. with On
ever gathering density of popula- @
n, forces more and more families to OeF
20 the less crowded and less expen-
'e suburbs, and proximity to the
lin port of entry Of immigrants who ia,
'uld naturally, in hard times, be 10th
spend their savings in taking long
p into the west.
dow much influence this latter con- CT
Grafton had is potently illustrated -
the figures of some of the western sh
tes' eensuses, Thus, Minnesota.
lch grew more than GO per cent he-
cen 1850 and 1890, gained but 81 Der
T. IN the five years following, Kan =
) winch added 1872 per cent. to her *
'uiation between 1880 and 1890. ac-
ny lost Ga per cent. between 1890
1870 In both these cases probably
lack of new settlers from foreion ,,l%
DIS was not more marked than tba IL
,kening of immigration from other /
tes.
o~ some one will ask in view of the "l
rp decrease in immigration ana the D
oaole decrease in natural growth AdS
al IS the population Of the United "
les to-day? With all due Difference
n to the many points involved II
be fairly estimated that there are {.
yeen 75,OOO,OO0 and 100000 in ~
tants in this country The exact -''--''l-'
loer Is nearer the smaller than the Wy
er figure w
orpions rd' anS tarsatI,Tni "rs@ TTaInmen. men w,