Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1900 — NEAR THE 100,000,000 MARK. [ARTICLE]

NEAR THE 100,000,000 MARK.

Population of ttae United States May Reach N’ine Figures. The war with Spain gave to Uncle Kam a substantial additi,on to his, already big -family of y-ljildren and sangnime calculators there are who predict that the 100,000,000 mark will be passed when the census of 1900 is taken. The 1 l»e,st estimates, however, indicate that the total will fall 12.000,000 or thereabouts short of the eighth cipher. There were 02,622,250 inhabitants in the United States ton years ago. nceorJing to the lust census. Secretary Gage's actuary pf the Treasury computes the present population between Maine and California. Alaska and. Key West, at 7G-,14K,000. To this must be added the peoples-, brought under the stars and’ stripes by the war with Spain and by the atihexation of Hawaii, to say nothing pf Cuba, Porto Hied and Guam. It is probable that- for a decade or two louger the United Btates must be content to remain in the fourth place in point (>f population among the nations of the earth. Chinrt,. despite encroach--ments upon her territory, still holds - the lead, with 402,680,006 men. women and children within her borders; the British ejnpire-eonies next, with 381.037,874 subjects, ,a nd the Russian empire is third. 129,211,113 persuiiis owing allegiance to the Czar. No Other nation, hoxw*ver. can show such a rapid increase us that of the United States. George Washington was President of a natioq numbering fewer than 3,000,000 individuals. It took twenty years for the population to double. In 1810 it was 7,239,881. in 1820 it had reached only 9,633,822, and ton years later the total was 12,866,020. From this time on it advanced by leaps and boujids. In 1840 it was 17.069,453, in 1850 it was 23,191,876, in 1860 it had reached 31,443.321. and thirty years ago the census showed a iwpulation of 38,558,371. It did not pass the half-cen-tury mark until 1880, when it was 50,155,783, and the last enumeration, 1890, gave a total of 62,622,250, Qwing to immigration from all parts of the earth, the population showed a wide cosmopolitan range even before the recent acquisition of new territory. The Philippines, however, will make a considerable addition to the list of races governed by the constitution. They will add no less than thirty new names to American nomenclature.