The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-02

finds that the percentage of gain are not quite alike and that there are faint
 indications of a future reaction.
 The state of things here revealed is 1 the more striking when compared with
 that existing in Europe. Both in the
 United Kingdom and on the continent
 the women are more numerous than the | men. It is possible to detect forces l that disturb the balance in some of
 these countries. But MT. Porter, super
 intendent of the census of 1S90 was in ! clined to think that these influences did not operate perceptibly in Austria and | the Netherlands, and hence that nor mally the female sex outnumbers the
 male in nearly the proportion of 51 to
 49. Comparison with the standard, then, makes the excess of males in
 America stranger than if nature ex-
 hibited strict impartiality.
 The two forces which apear to be 1 chiefly concerned in upsetting the
 equilibrium are war and immigration.
 And of the two the former is much the
 less effective. Still it was powerful enough to influence the returns in Ger
 many and France after the famous
 struggle of 1S70-71. And in the United
 States it pulled down the male propor-
 tion of .5,112 in every 10000 in 1860 to 5.056 in 1870.
 Migration, of course works in two ways. The majority of immigrants are men. The departures from one coun- try, therefore, leave the other sex in excess in one part of the world while they promote the preponderance of their own in another. Thus, in some Euro pean countries the proportion of males to females Is about 4S5 to 515 Now, in asmuch as there out of every five im- migrants who come to the United States are men, end 10 out of every 75 people here are of foreign birth, it is easy to see how important is this factor in es- tablishing the ratio between the sexes In 1890,, for instance, the excess of males here was made up In this propor- tion: Native born, 62S, T97; foreign born. SS4,713 And yet scarcely a seventh of the population came from other lands. It is to this fact, no doubt, that imn1i- grafton has experienced a slight check in the last few years, that the recent slight falling off in the masculine as- cendancy in America is due.
 But people migrate not only from one country to another, bpt also from one part of country to another. This is peculiarly true in the United States. In consequnce there Is depletion of the ranks of the sterner sex in the East and strong reinforcement in the West, Indeed, in the latter quarter there Is double invasion--from the more densely populated parts of our own land and from the old world. Hence the distri- button of the sexes is not uniform. Along the Atlantic seaboard for at least half century there has been practically no excess of males, and, on the whole, a slight deficiency. The superabundance of women has been most conspicuous, though, in Massa chusetts, Rhode Island and the District of Columbia Just why there should be such situation at the national capital is not clear But In New England a special local agency has been al work an influx of factory girls from Canada. Thus there Is an occasional exception to the rule that the majority of immi- grants are males.
 As might be expected, the greatest excess of men is to be found in the far West. in the great agricultural and mining districts. Tn Minnesota and Ne braska there were at least 54 men, out of every 100 people for a long time, from 55 to 5S in the Dakotas, and from 60 to 6S in most of the regions to the west and southwest. The ratio in Mon tana was once as great as S1 out of 100 and even in 1890 was 66 1-2 to 33 t2. A slow steady tendency toward equality has been observable, however. except n Utah, where the excess of men kept below the national average until 1880, md then increased only slightly. The between this fact and is too obvious to need point ng out.-From the Chicago Tribune.