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This calculation is, of course, only bypothe,i.
cal, because in some of the States there are no
returns, and in others no poor-houses. bnt il is
nevertheless correct as an aggregated for although
Ohio may not have, as the table gives her, 5,sl4
paupers, because she is agricultural State. with
an industrious northern people, and no slavery,
still the difference is made up in Louisiana, which.
though richer State, with nominay no poor
houses, and is put down in this scale of quotas ~
having only 1887, nevertheless supports, as ap-
pears by actual statements, 5000 persons in The
charity hospital of one city, New OrIeans) So.
too, in Vermont: the number of paupers is not
given, but the annual charges arc. amounting q,
100000; and this, supposng $45 to be the s,,u,
required for the support of each, would show
that she has 1922 paupers, while the table of
proportions gives her only l,SOO, or 422 less than
she really supports.


New York, with population, in 1890. of
l,9ls,6Os, ought to have only ll,l45 paupers.
but her public accounts exhibit more than threa.
fold the number, supplied at an expense of more
than one-third Of million OF dollars annually


Take the table, therefore, in the general. and
it gives the fair number throughout the Uniled
States.


1t may be said that this influx of extrinsic DO.
pulatlon is lost in the expanse of our territo
rv, and their support is nothing compared with
the increased productiveness of the country. But
this would be assuming position against facts;
for while the population has increased, the bread
stufs have diminished. The United States, which
have heretofore been looked upon as DESIGNED
by nature for exclusively agricultural country,
which should furnish grain to all the rest of the
world, and which should confine herself so com.
petely to the pursuits which nature has indica,ed
for her citizens as to have "her workshops i,
Europe is now so entirely foreign, as to import
not only her merchandise and her citizens. bnt
also the bread to feed them.


The Treasury reports show that up to 1888
we had no imports of breadstufs, and in that vear
only 500 bushels of wheat and 34s bushels of
oats; but in 1885 the returns give 1856, 500 worth
Of wheat, and $63,346 worth Of oats. Now. II
the increase of our population from 1888 TO 1899
is calculated by the rule that the whole doubles
itself in % years, then the census at that date
would give us l4,s04,0 souls, or ,93s, 900 IN
three years


Continued o., the last pnge.J