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cent. Of the total European population.
1t will be remembered that at one
time French was spoken nearly all over
the world. To-day It is the language Of
some forty-five million, while German
is spoken by one hundred million and
English by one hundred and thirty mill
lion. .#.~
According to official statistics the
movement of population in France since
1870 has been: t
1872. s6.1O2,a21: 1876, 9O5, 7sS, increase,
500. 867; 1881, 37,672,O4S, increase, 766,260;
1856. S. 21s, 1903, increase, 54s, S55; 1891, 49,
az. 1892 increase, 174,14O; 1900, Ss,s6ts45,
increase 1853. 49,.
Thus the increase fell from one hum
bred thousand inhabitants a year to
thirty-fiye thousand, to rise again TO
lightweight thousand. The worst of 1t
is that the small augmentation Of the
population is due to immigration, at
tracted bw a charming and sweet life.
In 1850 tnere were three hundred and
eighty thousand immigrants: the last
census gives the figures at 1,037,77S. So
thus 1t is that the excess of deaths over
births is a little more than balanced,
From 1890 to 1895 Germany's popuia-
ton increased BY three million. In. iS41
it was bout equal to that of France; at
present it numbers fifty-three million
I>GIis. In other words. to gain what
Germany does in sour or Ave months
France requires five years. 1t is start.
| y aud that Ii The present proper
ION continues Germany will hive IN tlf-
| ty years a population of one hundred
million nd France Forty million, Il
was Moltke who remarked that Gern1a
Ivy adIned every year hattie On
France, won by reason of the difference
of births in the two countries, being an
nually six hundred thousand more in
Germany.
Up to $50 France had been the first,
lafterward the second, of European ma
tons in regard to population; to-day IT.
laly is pressing it close for the sixth
place. In $50, when France had S5,200,-
loco inhabitants, Italy had 2S.6170oo. in
1900 the figures were, respectively, 49,
961, 045 and s2.449,754, being an Increase
In fifty years Of 3.7O1, 900 for the former
and $685. 600 for the latter
The proportion of families in France
who have no children is 1865 per cent;
those with one child, 24.SS per cent;
1.-TWO children, 294; three children, 14.69;
-four children, 9.07; FIVE children, $50;
six children, sos; seven children, 2.67;
number Of children unknown. 2.if.
The principles of the National ALI
lance, recently founded in France, for
increasing the population eliminate the
alarm created by this spectre OF depop-
ulation which appears on every census
lsheet. They are these:
First France is on the way to be-
come a third class nation.
5Second-The evil is due to a dinninu-
tion Of births
Third-The duty of every citizen S to
contribute to the perpetuity Of his coun-
try as well as defend it.
Fourth-The raising of a child is a
tax owed the state.
Fifth--To acquit this tax every faifii-
ly should rear at least three children.
sixth-The tax on families of more
than three children should be dreduced.
seventh-Infants should be protected
in order to diminish infantle mortal
ity.
The causes Of the depepulation are
many. One of the principal ones is the
ambition which most fathers have for
their children to rise to high positions
1t must be admitted that obligatory in
struction and the diffusion OF study,
while giving great intellectual progress
to the nation, have facilitated the de-
signs Of these fathers, From this has
come the flooding of the professions,
followed by crowding Of the cities at
the expense Of the country, and conse-
quently the difficulty that a citizen ex-
periences in founding family.
Also, the pleasure loving, economical
anywhere else In the world, limits the
number Of children. Sons and daugh-
ters,'' say thousands, mot only deprive
us of many pleasures, but they are ex-
pensive. Therefore we will have no
sons and daughters" e@
Births are also limited to the protec-
Zionist spirit. In certain departments
of Normandy the eldest son theory ex-
lists. He is the inheritor, and has no
fear Of having to share anything with
others. Consequently, he Is in posi-
tion equal to that OF his parents. This
is the dream of all French fathers and
mothers. Their design is to protect
their offspring against all contingent
eies, the changes and chances of life,
and the first protection they give them
| is the least number of competitors pos
sible. The child is brought up to hate
and fear competition. He thinks a
great deal more of his position already
acquired, and that he is born into, than
lof any position he might win for him
| self. When later he marries he takes
to wife another acquired position, but
to do so he must have a dot" or for
tune, to enable him to keep UP his pro-
per rank and position in the world.
Such as those think more Of conserving
| than of acquiring, more Of keeping
what they have inherited than Of striv-
ing for more. They are easily fright
ened at anything that might in the
slightest degree compromise them.
Protected by their parents. when young
land provided for when older, they de-
lnand protection from the state when
they have arrived at the years of dis
cretiohn. They ask it to protect them
Ifrom the Entertainments Of outside
progress, from bad doctrinaires. FROM