Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
MORE MEN THAN M
The Case In C~alifornia-Other Interesting
Government Statistics.

Government reports show that ev-
erv person in the United States in
1900 was entitled to 1868 3 IN United
States currency, $1.90 in newly coined
gold, 48c in newly coined silver, $3.Ol
collected under tariff law, $1O.38
worth of imported merchandise, 1-25
of a square mile of ground, % pounds
of sugar, 81 pounds of coffee, l pound
of tea, IS gallons of malt liquors, 70
gallons of wine, II gallons of distilled
spirits, 241 bushels of corn or corn
meal, AZ bushels of wheat or wheat
flour, $40 bushels of potatoes, l $40
pounds of oleomargarine, 123 pounds
of raw cotton, 81 pounds of raw wool,
l ITO tons of anthracite coal, 2 1-5
tons Of bituminous coal, IL gallons OF
crude petroleum, $3.50 internal rev.
enue.
American persons who desire to
ssmarry off" their daughters should
be careful not to reside in New York,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New
Jersey, Rhode Island, Maryland, Vir-
ginia, North and South Carolina,
Georgia or District of Columbia. OF
the whole United States, these places
are the only ones in which there are
more women than men. Of them New
Jersey offers the most hope, for there
are only 149 left over. In New Hamp-
shire there are only $50 more women
than men, so the chances are not SO
bad there either. But New York has
almost So 900 more women than men,
and Little Rhody has 5000. The Dis
trict of Columbia presents a striking
spectacle. There, in the home Of the
Government and the center of the
the strenuous life are IA, 700 more
women than men. Ten thousand of
them are colored.
Unmarried women who are willing
to change their condition should hurry
to California, where 1875, 600 men
could not possibly get a helpmeet
within their state. Texas is almost
as poorly supplied, for 100, 900 men
would be left lonely in a rush for the
women folk. In Minnesota there are
l13. $50 who are doomed to be bach
elors if they remain in the state, and
in Illinois 124, Ola couldn't get a part
ner if the entire population of the
state were to try to pair off.
In the United States men prepon-
derate by 1915, O97. The difference
was still greater ten years ago. Since
then the female side of the population
mas increased slightly-a fraction of l
per cent.
This settles the last lingering doubt
as to why we have a servant girl ques-
ton. With almost 1000, 600 males
a girl would be foolish to do some-
BODY else's Homework for $12 a
month.
Still there always is the comfort
that no law compels a person to live
up to the statistics concerning him.
If each person in the United States
had to do this, even the infant in
arms for instance, would have been
compelled in the last year to drink
sixteen gallons OF malt liquor, for
that is the amount that comes to each
and every human being in the country
when all that is consumed in a year
is apportioned equally.
The figures show that it every in
dividual in the country did not get
twenty-four and one-half bushels of
corn or torn meal last year some I'M
known malefactors must have robbed
the rest and overeaten themselves on
unearned cereals. For the cereals
shown in these figures must have been
eaten by somebody. This quantity
4.per capita is what was retained in
the United States for domestic con-
sumption.