Show THE SAME OLD CENSUS FARCE t It is clear enough that the present census of the United States was taken in the same grafty way vay that all preceding ones one were t taken ken In a way to give a census chief hief and a great army of clerks several se years' years work to compile a score of books S which not on one man in rn 1000 will vill ever open great open great lumbering volumes s done dOlle up in coarse cheap bindI binding bind bind- jug ing I g unfit t tobo bo be seen in any allY gentleman's W library r ry and filled with stuff which the average man takes no interest in ill Yesterday we received the figures of th the population population lation of Baltimore and Cleveland The The tj tion n of every city in the thc union should have hav been leen supplied to th the th public in a week after the census was as taken iken of every state in three weeks It was wass s simply taking doWn the down the names and footing up the number I Up to date no one one in Utah knows the population tion of Salt Lake from the census returns but everyone knows it would be possible to take that c census cerus in a a single lay clay ay and have the the next da day clay It would have bave simply been necessary to put enough to work to canvass the city and fifty men one day costs no more than five men ton days j Then a vast amount of data dat t taken kenina kenin in a census census should should never never be presented to the public save savo in figures figur s and words so condensed as to be bo contained in two fair sized volumes These should shoud be beon beon beon on fine Va paper per and nd neatly bound and and then sold to the people at cost In that way millions of people would be led to study the census reports As it is is' isby isby isby by the time they will ivill be finally published and in inthe inthe inthe the form in which they will appear nine people out of every ten will never never- open the cumbersome and altogether unsatisfactory books I |