An enumeration was taken. taken by the same agencies which took the enumeration in the State of Missouri and in the State of Indiana. and the result is entitled to just as much credit in the case of Dakota as in the cases of the other States and Territories. We have the population.given. we have the number of votes thaf year. and by making a division we find that the ratio of inhabitants to voters was four and eightytwo onehundredths. Yet for some reason or other the Senator. while accepting this census ratio as applied to all the States and using it in his argument. repudiates the ratio as applied to Dakota. and for the very singular reason that. according to his idea of the course of emigration to Dakota. more women and children went into that Territory prior to 1880 when the only access to it was by the Missouri River or overland. when the travel was not only expensive but tedious and perilous. than have gone into it since. with its twentyfive hundred miles of railway in its own borders. connecting with all of our great east and west lines. If there is anything perfectly clear. it is that the ratio found to prevail in 1880 instead of being diminished must have been increased from that time till now. The town population of Dakota has increased enormously. Railroads have penetrated the Territory from east to west and some spurs in a north and south direction. so that now there is no reason in the world why an emigrant to Dakota should not take his wife and children with him the very moment he has entered his homestead. Does the Senator from Missouri think that a ratio of 3 is too much for Dakota? The census showed 4.82.
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