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Show GREAT BRITAIN SLOWING DOWN. Now that tho final figures of the United States census arc being compiled com-piled it la interesting to comparo the result with the report of the English census bureau. One fact is convincingly carried home, and that la that the growth of the British empire is gradually becoming becom-ing slower and Blower To tho Now Wrorld the tide of Immigration has turned The various states are advancing ad-vancing at an unusual pace. The great Northwest, the South and the Middle West are rapidly accumulating accumulat-ing a papulation from all sections of Europe. Thoy are coming over to bo dumped into the melting pot, as Zangwlll would explain. The population of Great Britain, for the first time since the census of tho kingdom was taken, has not attained Us rate of Increase. During the deo ade Just past the rate was .1 per cont. During tho previous decade It was 12,17 per cent. This tells the story. England has gained har natural growth. England Is one of the old countries of the Old World, and, like other old countries, hR8 attained the pinnacle of Its progress and prosperity. New blood tells. Younger generations are more thrifty than the older ones. Vitality Is everything In life." Tho United States Is yet young. It is frofih and vigorous In Its growth. New York is rapidly npproachlng London in point of population. It is second In tho race for population of the world. Paris comes third and Chicago fourth, which shows how the New World Is gaining ground and how the old Is losing It. Our foreign population in somo Instances In-stances has been far from satisfactory. satisfac-tory. Wo have been too lenient in admitting the undoslrahle resident! to '011 shores. The criminal scum of , Europe haB been allowed to como to this land of the freo, and aB a rosult much disorder has resulted. On tho other hand, soinq of the best citizens we havo are of foreign birth, and their sons and daughters are the most loyal Americans. Tho radical reduction In tho growth of England Is still moro significant when contrasted with tho growth of Germany. Great Britain Increased In population only 8,275,000 In ten years, while Germany Ger-many Is Increasing at the rate of 1,-000,000 1,-000,000 a year Tho two ma.lri apparent ap-parent causes for this failure to maintain the normal rate of Increase of population aro the great fall In the birth rate and the great Increase In immigration. The lowest rate of Increase has been In the agricultural sections, showing that the youth of England is turning toward the cities and abandoning aban-doning the farms of their forefathers. This is a tendency in our own country coun-try which must be combated. The chief fact of importance In this comparison. com-parison. Is, howover, that we aro rapidly passing England In our population popu-lation growth. Momphio Appeal. |