It is as follows: During the first seven decades of our history as a Notion the population increased with remarkable uniformity at a rate deviating but little from 35 per cent. the actual rate for the succe9sive decades being as follows: 35.1. 36.4. 3..1. 33.5. 32.7. 35.9. and 35.6. This brings us down to 1860. just before the Civil War. If the country had kept on growing at the rate of 35 per cent per decade. we should have had In 1920 a population of 190.000.000. The statistical abstract by the Department of Labor shows that at the beginning of the Civil War there were practically no immigrants from countries that the people are now complaining ofSpain. Portugal. AustriaHungary. the Russian Empire.
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