Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1910-03-10
The CENSUS.
Some Wrong Views-No Harm
Can Come in Answering the
Questions.

pervisor TO the United States Cen
sus Bureau show the erroneous
apprehenso II of q considerable ele
ment of the population that their
answers 10 the enumeralors' ques-
tons in the next census, beginning
April Is, thi, = ar, will cause in
creased taxation, legal entangle-
menis, or injurious cons quences
to their persons and property.
In order to quiet such unbound
ed fears, which would, unless re-
moved, materially affect the AZ
cura"y OF the census, the bureau
has prepared an official statement
relative to The dereudial census,
origin, purpose, aud USES.
THIS statement should furnish
complete assurance TO those con.
cerned that Information given the
euumerators is held by the Census
Bureau in the strictest confidence
with reference to the identity of
the informants, as required by the
policy of The bureau and command
ed by the Law of the United States.
The bureau earnestly hopes that
clergymen, priests, physicians.
school teachers. employers, and
other public spirited citizens who
come in contact with large mum.
bers of people, will cooperate with
the bureau hy telling persons
who are believed 10 entertain err
roneous opinions of the census real
facts and urge them to give full
replies to the enumerators. Teach
ers particularly requested to speak
of the census to the school chIl.
dren ard ask them to tell their
parents about it.
The statement issued by the
bureau explains that the Constitu-
ton requires census of the pop
ulation TO be taken every ten
years in order 10 reapportion state
representation in the National
House of Reprrs, ativts. 1t is
the meaus also I" ascertain the in,
creas- in the populat on, agricul-
ture, industries, and r. sources Of
the nation since the last census.
1t is emphatic lily declared, by
the statement, that the iufurma
ton sought from the people of the
United States is used solely ior
general statistical purposes. 1t
will neither be published nor MS, d
in any other way to disclose fact
regarding any individual or enter
prise The census, it goes on tC
say, is not, never has been, anC
can not he employed to obtain in.
formation that can be used in any
way in the assessment IF property
for purge ses of taxation or The
collection If taxes, either rational
state, or local; or for depOrticr
proceedings, rXtraditiOn measures
army or navy co scriptiOn, Intern
al-reveDue invest cations, cOmpul.
sorry school attendance. child-labn,
law prosecutions, quarantine Itgu
latiOus, or in any way to affect the
life, liberty, or property Of am
person.
1t points out that replies to tn
enumerators IRE ard must be hell
by the Census Bureau in strict aut
absolute confidence. All the hu
reau officials, supervisors, super
visors' clerks, euumeratOrS, ant
Interpreters, before entering upnl
their duties, are obliged to take {
solemn oath not to disclose any in
formation they may obtain, excep
to the Census Bureau, and a vic
lation of the United States law il
regard to this oath means a 81 ,00t
fine or Imprisonment for two years
or both, in the discretion of tn
court.
Joe Quinlan of st. Louis Wis te,
his parents, north of Mexico, las
week.
Claude Morrell, north of Mexicn
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