Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1898 — We Have Room for Many More. [ARTICLE]

We Have Room for Many More.

Have, yon any idea of the number of persons that the United States would sustain without overcrowding the population or even going beyond the limit L'SaiT Bt rft£ pigmy Statgi jnift gives it a population of 397,5^0^""The area of the State In square nitles 18 only 1,250, thns we find that there is an average of 319 persons on every square mile of he territory. Scatter people all over th# whole land from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Gnlf to the British possessions as thickly as they are now in Rhode Island, and we wonld have 945,766,300 inhabitants, instead of an Insignificant 62,000,000. In other words, if the United States could be peopled to their utmost susta*nhip capacity, we conld take care of nearly two-thirds of the present papulatin of Tie globe.