Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-01

A writer on q New York paper. in speaking of the recent census enumer
 alton. has the following to say about q class Of people, the emigrants. who have helped this country to make the good showing which is now apparent. He says: But much more effective to this end than any war was the spirit the immigrants cherished of simple loyalty to the nation. without any mix ture of feeling about the state they the ocean to be Pennsylvanians or New Workers. but to be Americans. They loved the land which gave them liberty and abundance. and under whose protection they were safe from the eXactions and the tyrannies which had crushed them at home. The past of the several states was little to them, while they gloried i'll the fight. It was also the immigrant who wiped out slavery from America. Coming to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow. ir most cases. he came to the free states. in which labor was re- Spected. and avoided the slave states, in which it was the badge of serVi- tude Up to the time when the growth of anti-slavery feeling swept that abuse out of the northern states, i'm migration showed no preference for the north. At the time when the first census was taken, the population of the two classes of states was almost equal. There were 1.9GSU40 north of the di- viding line. and 1851 ,1I4 south of it.
 If the immigrant had been indifferent to the question, there would have heen as many people in the south ln lSoU 1860 showed that the north had pop ulatiCn of 21, 1S4 ,3O5 to the south's lo,- ..59.01G, or more than two to one. To prevent this northern increase through immigration from telling against slav- cry. the south enforced the rule that for every free state admitted into the union. a slave state should be admit ted at the same time. This was possi- ble until just before the war. and 1t explains why the south struggled so hard to make a slave state cut of Kan Sas But the admission Of Minnesota and Oregon gave the north il majority
 in the national senate. as it had long
 had in the house of representatives
 and the fire-eaters of the south con
 cluded that secession was the only safe
 guard for their peculiar institution.
 And when these descendants of the
 original Americans of 1190 tried to
 break up the Union it vas the immi-
 grants and the descendants of immi-
 grants in the national army who turned
 the tide against both slavery and se-
 cession. It was the immigrant who made America prosperous. It is q
 common notion. received without much thought from English econo-
 mists, that q small population in pos
 session of d country is better off than ) larger would be. It is even said that if more people come, then cultivation ! must be extended to poorer soils. and as labor will get less in return there will he a steady decline in the stand ard of living with every increase in the number to be fed. This wooden . notion underlies both the Malthusiar , theory of population and the Ricardo , an theory of rent, which our socialists
 rely on as proof of the necessity fol destroying a social order, which can , for the majority do nothing better than this. Henry C. Carey disproyed
 this Malthusian and Ricardoani non
 sense half century ago, but it is stil
 quoted as economic gospel on botE sides Of the Atlantic. -t