The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-12-18
THE CENSUS.

From the Balimce sun
VIII more than &C. % 90 rrnasining Americans, We
may Re able 20 bear the loss q ". Waldorf AstOC
and J. H4sen Hyde.
From the Buffalo Commercial.
The drift 4 pcpuiation to cities eontirznls 10 h
Characteristic Of our naticnal life hui AiF Duand
points out that it is not 10 marked tendency In
the last decade in some earlier pericdS
From the savannah News
As nation our population puts us now night in
the front rank. We are ahead Of France and her
colonies. ahead Of Germany and her colouias. and
next 10 the British empire, the Russian empire. and
China
From the St. Louis ,lobe-Dymocat
But let nobody suppose that any limit u the
groHth q the country is in sight Many of the
States in the older portion Of the country increased
at a higher ratio in the las decade than they did
in the ten yeaFs Immediately preceding.
From the Boston Transcript.
Nowhere else in the world live s2oOOOoo people who
have SO many reasons to consider themselves pros
Porous and so many reasons for facing TIE future
with confidence. The next census ought 10 shog
the population Of the continental United States to
be in excess Of lOO000O.
From the Nez Orleans Tines Democrat
Among those who decline 70 take stook in the
theory that he night rdrrs have driven population
cut and confined the volume a immigration II ve-F
small proportions Is prominent state odicis' p.a
attributes kcntuckys virtual ssaRdsill TO u stasc
q negro plpulaticn. The ncgTues he SAYS an going
into the Northern cities and into Illinois Ole sad
Indiana.
Prom the New Orleas Times d n,ocrzt.
The population neturned renders it certain dat
Louisiana viii gain az least ore Congressman The
fglTes Tor New Orleans. 3ael5. have already been
given. The city has groxn nearly as rapidly a. the
Steie 1871 pr cent as clmIurud with 1873. showing
that its growth has been normal and not artificial
, through extraordinary stimulation CT annexation Of
Territory
From the rhilad phii Inquiler.
The East as a whole, had almost Eve millions a
increase the West only a little more than three and
one-haH Millions and the South about one million
ard half Although he fcans are not given out
hy the bureau. il looks aa the population cvnter
had shifted toward the cart for the first time in
oar histo7 Until 1880 it moved steadily vest ON
. aAlNt tiL ldIAiLti Il iaAltllt N Bl4ll4lfl-
/ From the Baltimore American
II is most remarkable ihai country Of the size q
the United States can be policed BY such small
military establishment as exists This amounts to
total Of enlisted men and ofictrs Of less than
| 300 This spCahz we'll for the patriotism q he
people Of d country where every is IN effect a
policeman where crc7y aBn-boied citizen IS pre-
pared at the ealI # to do the wok Ct defense
for the nation.
Ffom lie Ohio State Journal
! al The old Ncrthsest Territory shoWsd gain in
population IN the last decade except Indiana Ohio
Michigan WISCONSIN and Illinois gained between 10
and n ger cent population. while Indiana fell beos
70 per cent. Iowa. Missouri Kentuchy. and Tennes-
see keep c1mmny with Indiana and retnrr a less
than 10 per cent increase. But NeR YORK. Pennsyi
vana and IVES; virriria that border Ohio on the
( east and south. made gain Of over % per cent
From the Springfield Republican.
! Even though total population a 9I.eas 9B f-r
tie continental United States is greater than mos,
statis;ieans were looking for and even though TIN,
Terrcaeals a rate Of increase slightly higher than
fer the decade Of 1890 10 1900 the natural rte Of IN
crease is without much question stir der.ining. The
tendency Is Sill Tor the average family TO become
smaller. II IS an unprecedented immigration which
has kept mp the relative increase in the past Ter
| years. When that dimiuishes We shall experience a
fail in tho deccnnial rate Of increase.
Fran the New York Mas.
THREE words serge to explain the broad slenihcapa
q a population which the Censss Bureau finds Il
have reached total of 81 .40s.I5I. er inclrdt.
Alaska. Hawaii, Porto Riro. ard military Ierzon
abroad 6. so2l5la population further increased b,