Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-03-08

ana strong man before the public gen.
orally. Will receive the Republican
nomination for Clerk Of the Supreme
Court.
Probably no part Of the census Of
1900 has elected more comment--m,ich
Of II very pessimlstic-than that which
has set In strong light the apparently
undue congestion Of population In the
large cities of the country. II has been
spoken of with much regret as most
unfavOrable indication or the tendency
Of modern civilization. 1t seems to
have been forgotten that such n fact
alone can hardly he considered as UNI
favorable In itself. because In the last
analysis the whole population. urban
ana rural alike, must derive subsis-
tencc from the direct or Indirect prod.
ucts OF the earth. They must all bc
fed and clothed ana sheltered. no mat.
ter where they may make their homes.
The urban population cannot long be
Increased In numbers mt the cost Of
the rural without setting up such an
increased demand for the products Of
the earth developed only In rural con.
ditions rs to bring on inevitably a
backward flow of population from the
cities into the country In order to meet
that demand. Aside from this. how.
ever, n new fact IL brought out In re.
cent bulletin from the census bureau
that puts quite u new face on the
whole matter. This fact II that the
growth Of population In the small
towns ana cities of the whole country.
east AMI west, has kept pace with that
of the large cities which has been such
a striking fact ana has stirred SO
much pessimlstic walllng. The official
figures show that with very few ex.
ceptiOns. the towns AMI cities exceed.
ing. say, 5000 or 1000 population each
have quite held their own In growth
with the large cities. The exceptions,
either way, can most likely he explain.
ed by local exceptional conditions
There IL nothing alarming In this fact
and 1t quite takes the alarm out of the
Other-large city-fact. Much. perhaps
most, Of the growth of these small
cities comes Of the removal Of fami.
lies that have prOspered from farms
to towns because of the superior edu-
catlOnnl advantages of the latter. The
farms have not therefore been aban-
dOned aud turned out into wild land.
Somebody else, a son or sOn-ln-law or
Il purchaser, has taken up the farm
work ana the new additions to the
town people growing out Of these re-
lnOvals of men who have accumulated
a competence ana by living In town
cease TO be producers In the primary
sense simply operates to swell the de-
inand for what the farms produce.
When the statistics of growth In the
farming population itself and the In.
creased productive power Of each In
dividunl arising from improved meth.
DDS can he digested and studied the
reasons for pessimistic wailing In this
regard are likely to disappear alto
gcther.
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For many years there has been an
almost continuous discussion OF what
might be called the age question. 1t
has been said that as men grow old
they lind 1t hard to secure employ.
ment, and sociological investigations
have shown that the old age OF the az.
tisan or the labOrer Is often one of
considerable hardship. For the last
few weeks In particular attention has
been called to the alleged discrimina-
ton of certain employers against men
over Is. 1t was for this reason that
Mr.. Schilling, In addressing the Chi.
cago Philosophical Society, said that
one of the three things that the Ma
tional Civic Federation should do was
to find an answer to the query: How
is the man over 40 to make his living?
1t cannot be denied that this question
presents some difficulties. At the
same time the hundreds OF thousands
Of men over 45 who are still capable
OF their best work show clearly that
no perfectly precise age limit can be
set. The hero of AddisOn's satire In
the Spectator papers died Of old age
at "a. The captain of the Evanston