Show NATIVE BORN ory li KIN AMERICAN K IS ON 0 THE E DECREASE ASE T the si sins point to a dropping off of 50 per C cent ent in our population from the records of former decades washington AUK aug 26 startling conclusions spring from an ex ami nution of the returns of the consul of 1910 as far us the returns have come in when compared m with ith statistics of national growth in for mer decade the coming race suicide casts its before for the natural increase of the native natle born american is fal falling ailing ott off to an alarming efte extent nt and another decade at thil rate would put Us in the clasi with france hose dt creasing population has been the burning question with the government nt there in spite of all our natural rt resources burces our ces and all the national and state aid to encourage an increase se keeping step with former years the tile signs point to a dropping away avay of 50 per cent in internal increase of population 1 pu lation from the ref records of former decades decad cs the increase of our whole population including immigrants from 1820 to 1900 aa an a crage of 28 per percent cent for each decade varying from 3 5 pir pi r cent in ago to aj per cent in 1890 1800 1900 the average increase exclusive of immigrants immigrant 9 during luring that period aa waa about 21 per 1 r c nt in the decade of this men inert ase was N its a over 20 per ver cent there re bung about inhabitants other than im in mi granta anesin in the former and prid about in the tile latter census there aa a s thu thui an internal increase ae of about 11 14 1 1 pt op e no now th beat be at experts including th those chokin okin in the en fesus place tho total that ill be shown n by the tile cm bus u of 1910 at hut but from must be the extras r binary influx if f immigrants in the past ten scars which lic according cording to the ro kotura tura of the burdau of gration up to the last month sho show that within a fe few of 0 have bonu in sinfo 1900 ag the total gro grue population 0 of f hah VM i as 75 76 WO OX this nit kini th that at ohp estimates place the indrea e at 1 deducting from this tills nine little milli immigrants there re orl he me million natural in of americana americans from igo 1900 to MO 1 ft against courtlen fourt ten Len million betten tile enra 1890 1894 and 1900 which te Is about 6 lent nara that of the for mer decade of 1890 1900 which 1121 is 21 per cent in addition to this is 13 to bo bf considered the marv marvelous clou 3 growth of the cities 0 o far report reported Ld not to mention the smaller ones a ww core of those thoe of more than fifty thousand show an increase in running well ell over 50 per cent atlanta has hai 11 72 per cent akron 0 62 per cent while hile do detroit troit mich for forges fores es up with 63 pr por cent tho the other smaller r cities da will avei average age wolie up to 60 per cent now as about 40 pcr percent cent of our population is city dwelling du elling this means that the urban population will show an increase of at ae least ut 45 per cent which in itself would cover not only the estimated indrea increase se 0 of f fourteen million including emilli immigrants but leaves a gre it m many any thousands to be drawn from some oth other r source that source ri the country as distinguished distinguish d from the city the returns from the rural districts so far are meager outside I 1 de oklahoma and texas but they show qi e in those t two 0 states where certain local conditions account for an increase a e falling oft off frum from 1900 in wirt county west virginia the list lut rural return mide from the census there W was as a decrease of ii 11 per cent other country districts have so far shown but little better tho only conclusions clu to be drawn from these thee figures are first that our home in increase of population is rapidly falling failing bee ond th it the tile cities are not only absorbing the immigrant population but are arc heavily bioni the ri rt al districts district 4 third that at th the e present sent rapid decline in internal in cre c it will ill be but another decade befera except with ith the aid of immigration grat 1011 we e will ill show a pos pu iriv de I clin in population of loure u it is barely I 1 I 1 0 lile that the 0 estimate of ninety milli oil 41 may proe incorrect and that 0 r population mn inn show up i 1 hut but the tile calculations have hae bet bt n made and returns eu in fr hae borne out the experts |