Show INCREASE UNDER MORMON REGIME THE rapid increase of population in this territory is beginning to attract attention and to elicit newspaper comment of course this increase is attributed to gentile influences the liberal av element with its usual unblushing impudence claims the credit and the echoes carry the sound throughout the country by the echoes we mean most of those papers which treat on utah affairs it is seldom that they do anything but repeat errors the san francisco chronicle says of this increase in population that is a pretty good proof of the stimulus given by gentile institutions and the class of people that they attract under the old mormon regime the city would not have its ita present position before the end of the century it is said that figures will not lie but it does not follow that persons and papers cannot lie with figures let us see what the census tells of the increase in utah under the old mormon regime Y in 1850 the census gave utah a population of in 1860 it reached the percentage of increase being in 1870 it ran up to or an increase of per cent in 1880 the population was an increase of 65 per cent and the latest report places the present population at an increase of 55 per cent so bo that under the old mormon regime f the percentage of the increase was greater than since the influx of gentiles and when the regime was exclusively mormon 11 the increase was nearly five times as great as during the last decade and with the increase of the gentile element the ratio of increase has rapidly declined will the chronicle make a note of this and correct its palpable error or will it proceed in its usual course publish a gross untruth and entirely ignore the facts when placed before its attention |