Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-12-14
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS
FACTS AND OPINIONS GATHERED
FROM CONTEMPORARIES.
INTHE YEAR 1000

IN 7 HE YEAR ZOOO
Among the startling prophecies con
corning human developments in the
twentieth century, now only thirty DAYS
distant, are one by President Pritchett
of the Boston Institute of Technology
and another by Sir Robert Giffen, the
eminent English statistician.
According to the tirst-named scholar
the population of the United States VIII
be nearly $4,000, 600 in 1910; in 1880
over 100. 600 600 He does not estimate
if for the wear 2000, but at the rate of
growth which his estimate for 1880 as
sumes-namely, $50 per cent, for the
fifty years beginning with l9OO-the
American people one hundred years
hence will number Ala, 900 600
Sir Rober Citizen says that the popula-
tions os Europe and of European origin
in which he includes the United States
and all other countries settled by de-
scendants of European stock-haVe in.
creased from 10. 100000 III 1900 to 800
600. 900 in 1900. And he predicts that at
the end of the coming century 10000 the
500. 900. 600 wi" nave become 100000,
600 or more.
It's not conceivable that the twentieth
century will be more warlille and de
structve of human life than the nine
teenth, which has been more crowded
with wars than any previous century of
the Christian era. Therefore, the three
fold increase of the populations of
Europe and of European origin and
sympathetic civilization which has oc-
Cured in the present century is not un-
reasonably anticipated IN the next.
Meantime, the yellow and black races
are not increasing at all. Time and tide
fight on the side of "the noble eau
Casian."
But try to think of the American peo-
pie of A. D.-i75 600, 900 of them. What a
presidential campaign they will have
when that year rolls round New York
World,
5000
VERMONT GAINS MORE THAN NEBRASKA.
II. w. Collingwood, the editor of
"The Rural New Yorker" makes this
interesting statement: 1.-The tide of
emigration has turned. 1t has prac-
tically ceased going to the west. Up TO
1890 it went west altogether. The best
Maine boys were constantly going to
that section. Not only that, but the
savings of Maine people went there too,
and generally were lost. During the
last ten years Vermont has gained more
than Nebraska. Maine, Vermont and
New Hampshire has Just about the same
population as Kansas and Nebraska com
bined. These three New England states
gained fifteen thousand population more
than Kansas and Nebraska gained in the
same time. And this in spite of all the
booming the west has had. For thirty
years rural New England steadily lost
ground. now it is steadily gaining. In
fact. it j. gaining aS fast or faster than
any part of the union with the exception
of Oklahoma. This increase in popula-
tion is not due to growth in the large
cities, but to the farming districts. 1t is
due to two things. The men who went
west with the boom find that while they
can raise crops cheaper. it costs three
times as much to get them to market.
They are at the mercy of railroad com
panies and elevators. Draw line
twenty miles west of the Hudson River
to Lake Champaign, taking in all of
greater New York and New England,
ana you nave the DeSt market Tor 1rult
on earth. The farmer inside this terri
tory has the greatest market advantage
of any farmer in the world. He has
cheaper land and short hauls. The
western farmer after twenty years finds
his land running out and dozen middle
men to be filed up before he can sell his
crops. Science and new ideas in farm
ing will take advantage of this and en-
able the New England farmer to COM
pete with the western farmer and beat
him. In other words, the New England
farmer twenty years ago ran away from
home to hunt for cheap land and cheap
plant food. He thought that his old
farm was played out when ii only
needed a change of method to make it
a. productive a. ever
Prairie chickens are said to be more
abundant In western Kansas than for
years, and the farmers are disposed to
give the birds chance to multiply by
keeping check on the hunters.
OF every six MeXicans, five are unable
to read and write.