The census returns show that approximately 51 per cent of our people are now living in the cities. The trend is all from the farms to the cities. After the Civil War approximately 75 per cent of our people lived on the farms. Farmer boys find higher wages and shorter hours in the city work. and so the great transition goes on. Immigration coming to this country finds its centers in the cities. while farmers have difficulty in securing labor. During the war some 23.000 new millionaires were created. No one has yet heard of a millionaire farmer being created by the war.
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