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Show NOW A NATION OF 102,826,309 j United States Has Made Great Gains In Population Deiplte European War. I Tho wars are costing the United States In this deende :t,0OO,000 In lm-migrants, lm-migrants, jet we are gaining In numbers num-bers somewhat faster than in the last ! deende, or so the census bureau estimate esti-mate of population for Jiumnry 1, 1017, would Indicate. It Is lO'.VS.MUOt), or Including the Islands, HH.HOIV-S.". The end of the jenr completes two-thirds two-thirds of the deende and sljuw s a gain of not quite 11,000,000. observes the New York World. A total of 103,000.- 000 or more 11111 bo expected In lU'-O. If pence had continued, 11 gain of nearly near-ly 20,000,000 would not have been Impossible. Im-possible. To New York the census burenu ns-signs ns-signs for six nnd two-thirds jears moru than twice the gain the state census allowed for Ave yenis; It Is doubtless doubt-less nearer the tiuth. Uy 10'JO the em- 'plre state should reach 11,000,000. At the present rate Ponnsjlvunln should Increase 1, 'J 10,000 In ten jours. Cull- Ifornlu 000,000, Texas Ml 1,000, anil Illinois Illi-nois 8.TJ.000. California has already about ns many people us declared their independence In 177(1. The Kinpcrnr Claudius took n census of 0,015,000 Komnns - men only. That may have meant In all HO.OOO.OOO citizens. citi-zens. Gibbon thought slaves nnd provincials prov-incials might have made 1111 empire to-tul to-tul of 120,000,000, but It was u generous gener-ous guess. The Itilllsh, Chinese and 1 llussimi empires now buipuss the Unit-1 Unit-1 ed Stiites in total numbers; none loqunls It In the number of educated and energetic whites unless we count as 11 single power tho vast (lei manic 'system which reaches from Antwerp 1 to Ungdnd under the rule of IJeilln. |