Growth of the Nation.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 15 November 1901, Page 3

Growth of the Nation.

r ,vfj»r^aih ", ir^^rease .^a-s been ,_enormoiUß. S^an^e^ ifr,qm ,^O,. to, S^^m^ions, ' Bussia. (partly frcgw ,. fUß^^tmn) from ,40 to J.-35 -millions, the English population" 01, .the^ British Empire ,'frpm la. to "55 millions, ana ,the v.'jOKttcid^talaß Irp'm rather. lm^m. jdteiitimhii'JQ: *&ii><im- ,M%9mMv r l iito Tgrowtb.. ;■s*'». m „.rouncC .number 1, i ffrom^lM to 510 millions, or , t»e : - OTaWwnich,' at tlie ti6girinin& 'of the ■$6b.V&tyi < >V!iu6 octttfpiea by one i»rs< h. '•tjro*l^'Bo*racoommodaUi three/ ' T ie -¥klt» b -'-"TO<»^''^ -^ whole^ . need .mot »:ti»wbje r itpelf % .about,-, gitter } r A-&Qufjfc''tie' ajwayg 'PPWib^^ApjTit . migtit sufliej* as, .uiu^i as w# anoula , point Ui utien ' pveftooted lip-; prafift«nrt»*"<vO-f«^M*^« the pre^ ;»ent fixowth' to population . Nfetv 1 mwlrtW, *i 6 dditW, thus become he- ■ cesaary, but-: iiiese, fit must be re^- , Mteinbered; iire by no means the pw "-^outlet^ior new. energies. «To afigr#at : Kxtmt' the additional people provjde' ■aflor themsetvesc They procure - for i^'thetnaelves the major part ,oL4hO rev quisite comforts and luxuries of Hie: ■■- Th»; main exchanges of any country, '■ ai^ile, arei. and must* be, at home, ' ::^ «nd the- foreign trade, however: j fm- 1 Jpbrtant,. win always < remain within bear some /proportion to •vtlw : totftl exchanges. of the.country. ' idurimg ithe- later part of the - eentWy*-' while the < increase ol ,popu-^ UsttonitMabeon univorsal, it has-been .ins a decreeuHng ratio-^HSvenf. in - the 'Cnitcd States jit has declined . from * «»ne|liing: llke^3s"per' cent: In the ' earlier -part 1 "ftf only 2\ pier l cent.] in ' ' tTO^fftfet decatfe; '■'< It- ha«< also diminishe&'in Bdßjland, though thbWigttres 'itjavri been mall caiojs smaller. Sueh 1 ' Increase, >t must Be rem.embered, ■&&>, -'' pgndfi* 'not 'im\y : w'n the- 'birth r"ato, dn iffminutiort of th» death .^ate. That ' Is* tirought^ out liy the ; torefcettt almost stationary cxmdition of France ;■ the.- birth rate, no doubt . i* ratherl low, 219 per 10,000, but its, death rate i»\ 2HP- Ws me»n|». " ivery sfow, /groWth indeod, but if ' the latter were reduced to the Sfeg*' tjtantial incrwtee would speedily .reSuit; LAlVJtoe** considerations snow , what impoirtant ideas, were miggest- '^ the,- inc«t coromon atatiflttcs. and thus indicate the need of a bet-, •ter , statistical and. .economic educa-, don for our - public' men.

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