The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-03-07

vorced; relationship to
head of family home owned or rented.
free or mortgaged; literacy, place of
birth and that of parents; citizenship,
ability to speak English, whether en-
ployed and trade or profession, wheth-
er veteran of any American war.
But lest you should feel that the
asking of these questions is meddle-
some interference in your private af-
fairs, let it be stated at once that the
man or woman who calls at your home
and asks you these questions is census
enumeration, engaged in the huge task
of taking the 10Th decennial GEN.
sus of population in the United States,
in accordance with Article / of the
Constitution of the United States, that
you are required by law to give true
answers TO the questions and that
there is no real reason whatsoever
why you should not answer them. For
you have this assurance from DR.. Will
liam NJ. Steuart, chief of the bureau
of the census, in regard to it:
mo citizen need hesitate to answer
the questions asked by the enumera-
tors. The facts, so far as the indi-
vidual is concerned, will be safe in the
hands of the government and will new
er be disclosed. No one need have
the slightest fear that his personal or
business secrets will ever be disclosed
to friend or foe. The oath of the emu
merator requires that he shall keep
secret the answers to queries. If he
does not, he is guilty of a crime, and
If detected there is not the slightest
doubt as to what will happen. The
law will be invoked and enforced to
the limit"
The 1880 census will be the greatest
counting of noses" in the history of
the world. When it is completed Uncle
Sam will know just how many more
children he has than he had in 1920
AS to what the population of the
United States will be, Doctor Steuart
saws:
ut will be more than 121, 100000
and less than 125,OO0OOO. We are GER
tain as to this, because we know that
the population Of the continental Unit
ed States is now increasing at the rate
Of about 100000 persons each year,
or. to put it another way, at the APP
proximate rate of one person every
twenty seconds. These totals are
made up of the annual excess of
births over deaths, which amounts to
about 100000. and the excess Of I'M
migration over emigration, which gives
us an additional 100000 each year.
The 1880 census will show that our
people are thirty times as many as
were in the country In 1870 and near
~ twice as many as in $780, or only
forty gears ago.
History records no instance in
which population has so rapidly In
creased as has been the case in the
United States. Neither is it of record
that the increase in population has
anywhere else been accomplished by
so great an improvement in the COM
fort and well-being of the people gen.
orally.
I'm 1880 there were 40 persons for
each square mile of what was then
the United States. The 1890 census,
i believe, will show forty people to
each square mile, or nearly ten, times
more than at the time of the first CEN
sus. In 1890 there were six cities in
the United States with more than 5000
inhabitants Then the cities were re-
sponsible for only per cent of the
population America In those days was
truly agricultural In 1920 the cities
with more than 5000 inhabitants num-