Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — The Future United States. [ARTICLE]

The Future United States.

“The population of the United States will increase for many years yet, but never again in so great a ratio as during the last century,” said Prof. Howard W. Shaw, now at the Southern. “This country can support a population of 300,000,000 much more easily than France can support her 40,000,000, but after we touch the hundred million figure our increase will be slow. It is cheap homes and high wages that now attract immigration. Low-priced latid will soon disappear and with it will go high wages, despite the wisdom of statesmen. Then, instead of a constant stream of homeseekers pouring into America, a considerable stream will pour out towards the fertile lands of South America and Southern Africa. Uncle Sam will probably begin the twentieth century with 80,000,000 people; he will do well if he ends it with an increase of 20,000,000. By that time—the beginning of the twenty-first century—we will be a homogeneous people. There will be no longer Irish-Americans and Ger-man-Americans, but everybody will be American pure and simple. The many streams that are now flowing hitherward from all parts of Europe will have amalgamated, and the result will be one of the best balanced and most Intellectual peoples the world has ever known.” —Globe-Dem-ocrat.