Show S THE THIRTEENTH CENSUS Every ten years year since seventeen ninety the United States government has bas counted the time people At first the motive was w RS almost wholly to make a basis for the apportionment of cop gressmen Little by little other mat matters matters matters were cared for lor in the census in inquiry Inquiry and made of record in the pub published published reports And now the literature of the bureau is tremendously voluminous and tremendously valuable In that tt first census Virginia had i sixty sixt per cent more people than Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania could boast North Carolina had more people than either New NewYork NewYork NewYork York or Massachusetts and the Puri Purl Puritan Puritan tan commonwealth led the time Empire state in ma population wealth and in Iii influence influence fluence Richmond was bigger bugger than Brooklyn and the center of population population population tion was in Maryland That center has moved steadily west digressing a little from decade to decade to the north or the south and is now about half way across the southern part of ot Indiana It is likely to move Into Illi Illinois Illinois nois in There was no far departure from fact in that statement of ot Patrick Henry Hen when he exclaimed Three millions II of people armed in the tho holy cause of liberty Ubert and in such a country as ai this thia we possess are invincible to any foe the enemy can send against them For there were three millions and not many more when the first census was taken Now it is believed by many that the thirteenth census will show more than a hundred mil lull million lion Hon Indeed d the New York World boils bolls down the probable results of the con cen census sus BUS with the words A nation with nearly peo pec people people pie living under or outside of or the con constitution with miles of railroad newspapers and other publications publications publications with children and youth in schools with a public debt of only 11 per capita and national wealth of more than 1000 for each person which surpasses in total Britain and Ger Germany Germany Germany many combined and with half the peo poe people people pie living In their own homes on their own land Patrick Henry Henr and his friends build ed a great deal better and bigger than they knew |