The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-19
THE TEXAS CENSUS
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The State will Probably Show $780,.
600 Population.
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MAY GAIN FIVE CONGRESSMAN.
How the State Was Defrauded by Last
Census.
THE VITAL STATISTICS WERE JUGCLED
Interesting Compilation of Facts and
Figures That VIII he of
Value to Texas.
MAY GAIN FIVE CONGRESSMAN.
THE VITAL STATISTICS WERE JUGGLED
Especial 70 the Post.l

Especial TO the Post.)
Washington. July 1S.-No census has
ever yet shown a gain in population OF
million for any State during ten years.
While it is safe to say that the general
by the census soon to be published will
be less than that indicated by any of
the previous enumerations oxceli tia. ia
1870 and that in 1890, IT IS also SUI to
say thpt the record will be broken as
20 the total gains OF j numser Of states.
and that more than one STATE will gain
over a million inhabita1.s.
There is every reason to believe that
IN The total gain Texas will stand first
with an increase certainly Of more than a
million and probably million and
quarter. New York and Pennsylvania will
probably show gains that will pass the
million mark and may reach eleven hun
dred thousand While gain of a million
Is not improbable in Illinois.
These estimates are based upon the
indications Of the last census. It is not
necessary to go into a detailed calcula-
ton except as TO Texas. This State
showed a gain of more than one third
from births alone between 1850 and 1890.
A continuation OF this rate would give a
gain of 100000 from births alone between
1890 and 1900. The state gained in round
numbers 100000 from immigration be-
tween 1880 and 1890. The losses by mi
grafton that Kansas and Nebraska will
undoubtedly show, and tho Dakotas viii
probably show. where all showed I'M
rnense gains from this source between
1880 and 1890, indicate gain of 100000
from immigration.
when 1T is remembered that the
real population of Texas in 1870
was 2,345,Ooo instead of 2,235,523. as
stHted by the census AZ is evident
that the Indications point to pop
uIation of at least 3,5Oo.OOo in
1000.
The statement that Texas had over 100
600 more people in 1890 than the census
gave her credit for is indicated by tho
census Itself so clearly as TO leave no
room for reasonable doubt. When the
gains by an excess OF births over deaths
and the excess OF immigration over emf
gration are added to the population in
1880 the result must be the population
In 1890. In the republican States this
statement Is verified by difference of
only 10000 in more than rs ,0000 600 or one
In 700, between the calculation made
from the sources of gain and tho state
ment OF the total by the Porter census.
siS the Southern States the difference is
$4,000, or one in twenty-three. This
difference clearly shows a false statement
of the totals In the Southern States.
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The census OF 1890 showed 953, 3l3 Amer
lean born children under ten years OF age
living In Texas at the time of the count.
As they were under ten years OF age
this number shows how many children
we're born In Texas during The decade
and survived to the end OF It. II all the
deaths during tho decade are aubstracted
from sill the births the remainder would
show the natural gain But the deaths
Of the persons born during The decade are
already subtraeted In n report which,
gives not the number of births but the
number of survivors, so It follows that
only the deaths Of persons who were
living in 1850, the persons not born dur
Ing the decade. should be substracted
from the survivors among those born
during tho decade to show the natural
gain.
The number OF persona living in 1850
who died before the census of 1890 was
taken was approximately equal TO tho
number OF those over Ave years old
who died during the decade To make this
clear It is only necessary to divide the
persons born during the decade Into ten
clasees, one representing the births OF
each year. From the first class, that be-
tween nine and ten years old, those born
during the first year Of tho decade, and
averaging nine years and half old. the
losses by death we're for a period Of nine
years ana half From those born dur
ing the second year OF the decade the
losses would be for eight and a halt
years; seven and half from the third
six and half from the fourth; i've and
half from the fifth: four and half
from the sixth; three and half fron
the seventh; two and half from Tho
eighth; one and half from The mimi
and half year from those born during
fhe las, year OF the decade. These aver
age five and show that the subtraction ~
the deaths Of persons under fve would he
practically the same as The Subtraction
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