The Inundation of America
Since 1874 no fewer than 5,000,000 aliens have pitched their tents in the United States. It is a little bewildering to glance ahead and figure up the probable proportions of this Bepnbhc, Our population has doubled about every quarter of a century. Dealing in round numbers, it may ba recalled that we ware 8,000,000 in 1775, 6,000,000 in 1800,12,000,000 in 1825, 24,000,000 in 1850, 50,000,---000 in 1875, and with the emigrant contributions we will be over 100.---000,000 in 1900. It is a startling outlook, this geometrical progression, of population, and we will bid Godspeed to Germany and other countries in their efforts to change the course of the migration movements ta other parts. We have now a larger alien than is safe, and ought to have twenty years' rest to digest and assimilate it.-— Springfield (Connecticut* U.8.A.) Eepnblican.
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Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 151, 21 July 1888, Page 2
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