Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — One Hundred Million. [ARTICLE]

One Hundred Million.

The prediction of the director of census that the United States with her new accessions will have a population of 100,000,000 in 1910 is likely to be fulfilled. We began the present decade with approximately 77,000,000 people in the states and territories, Including Hawaii and Alaska. In the states'there was an increase of about 21 per cent from the figures of 1890, a falling off oi more than 3 per cent from the increase of the preceding decade. The natural order is for the percentage to decline as the country .becomes more thickly settled, but immigration has shown new life during the last four or five years, and we still have an immense amount of unoccupied land to attract newcomers, while the expansion of our manufactures offers new inducements to many kinds of labor There is no apparent reason, therefore, why the rate of increase should decline. Putting it at 20 per cent, the estimate would give us an addition of 15,000,000

and a total of 92,000,000 in the states and territories if we do not figure upon the latter separately. Furthermore, even if we were to make this distinction, the result would not be seriously affected.