The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1900-06-28

I SOUTH CAROLINA
( STATE NEWS ITEMS.
o~co~cJS1Sc
South Carolina Census.

S~c3o3SeJcOSSl
South Carolina Census.
A Washington special says: In
short time the census bureau will be-
gin issuing bulletins giving the popu'
lation of the different divisions of the
country.
Without waiting for the report of
the twelfth census, it is safe to say
that South Carolina will prove sur
prise to many, when her population is
stated, if the census now being taken
proves accurate. This prediction is
based not so much on the wonderful
industrial development of the state as
on the fact that the census OF 1890 was
manifestly incorrect, 80 far as the
south was concerned, greater in pro-
portion to the population than IN
South Carolina. The correctness OF
this statement is proved by the
eleventh census itself.
In the south the under count was
nearly million even assuming that
the population under ten years OF age
was correctly stated, and in South
Carolina it was $4,000 or nearly one in
fourteen.
The census shows the number of ma
tive born children in each state under
ten years of age, and, of course this,
in states which show only small bal
ance OF interstate migration, means
the number of children born during
the decade who lived to the end of it.
For South Carolina this number was
34S, ,64S.
To find the gain from births the
number of persons living in 1880 who
died between 1880 aud 1890 must be
subtracted. On the supposition that
The death rate of 1889-1890 was an
average of the decade the total number
Of deaths to be subtracted was 80, 7O2
leaving a gain by births of 245, ,947
and population of 1,241, 524, less the
loss of the state by migration.
The change in the number OF persons
of foreign birth living in the state was
too slight to be an element of this cal
culation. The loss of the state by in
ter-state migration was also small.
In 1880 the census showed 1875, ,42O
more persons born in South Carolina
and living in the United States than
born in the United States and living
in South Carolina. In other words
1876, 42o more persons living in 1880
had moved out of South Carolina than
had moved into the state. 1t is safe
TO assume that one-sixth of these would
have died between 1880 and 1890,
leaving balance of Interstate migra-
ton against the state in 1890 OF 1872
| $50 left over from 1880.
The census of 1890 showed a like
balance. Taking from this the balance
left over from 1880 only 10,S26 remain
US the states loss from interstate mi
grafton between 1881 and 1890.
This taken from the gain by births
| (245,94 leaves 235, 121 MS the total
gain and 1,23O,69 remain as the pop
ulation of the state in 1880 as shown
by cross examination OF the Porter
census instead of only 1,15l, 149 as
stated on the direct examination. This
shows difference of 76, 549.
This difference is based on the pre-
sumption that the population under
ten years of age was reported correct
ly. If the proportion of the missing
population under ten years was as great
as that over that age the total under
count in 1890 would amount to no.
900 and the correct population at that
time was 1,260,00O.
Even with this number the ra te OF
increase between 1880 and 1890 would
have been less than that reported be-
tween 1870 and 1880. A continuation
of the rate of gain reported between
1870 and 1880 would have given a
population of l, ,4O3, 712 in 1890. Can
dor compels the admission that in 1870
there was an under count and that
makes the gain appear larger between
1870 and 1880 than it really was. II
the state gained 10 per cent in popu-
lstion between 1860 and 1870, in spite
of the war, the under count in 1870,
amounted to 10000 and continue
ton of the true gain between 1880 and
1890 would have given in 1890 popu-
lation of ], 1,280,000. The rate of gain
should not have been less between
1880 and 1890 than between 1870 and
1880, for the loss of the state by mi
grafton was much less during the lat
ter than during the former decade.
The evidences of fraud in 1890 show
beyond a reasonable doubt that South
Carolina had more than a million and
quarter people ten years ago, and if
50 she has more than 1850, 900 now,
for there has been a gain rather than
loss by migration during the last ten
years. If the census of 1900 tells the
truth South Carolina will gain repre-
sentative in congress. If, like the
census of 1890, it is taken for political
effect rather than for an accurate state
ment of the statistical condition of the
country, she may lose one, for con-
tinuation of the under count IN the
gain between 1880 and 1890 would
give fewer than 1,275,OO0 people in
1900.
| DR.. Kendall or For Europe.
DR.. F. D. Kendall left Columbia
the past week for tour Of the Euro.
pean hospitals, visiting the principal
cities of ireland, Scotland, England,
Italy and France. Mrs. Kendall and
son accompanied the doctor. They
will visit the Paris Exposition and the
Passion Play at Oberammergau.
Campaigners Take Rest.
The state Democratic campaign
stops until July 10th, on which day ii
will be resumed at Georgetown. This
skip is to allow the candidates who
are delegates to the national Demo,
cratic convention to 90 to Kansas City