| Show TWO RIVAL not only the united states ansti a national census tho post year the german empire has bad its citizens counted and conditions recorded in both coon griea the result was euch to leave no doubt that in the rapid inci case of population they far other nations with us tle natural increate of the native population receives an ad lift n hy a steadily flowing stream of abd these two factors combined ranks of our people with a end to an extent never before wit by the world in germany it is exclusively the forider natural increase which secures for that country a growth of population otherwise unheard of in europe the teutonic sa still maintaining its reputation for phenomenally prolific propagation As to the method of the census taking in germany it is far more economical and much prompter than with us where it takes six months to gather all the statistics and another half year to compute and col abrar and classify tobita to dita n the census is taken n a single day and with campara lively small expenditure on the first of december every proprietor of a bouse or bis agent was legally compelled to the various blanks handed to him for that purpose which give the desired information concerning the inmate all the task of the authorities afterwards to collect these blanks when fille dand to make their wonder that people knew in a few weeks that germany which in 1871 directly after the franco german increased to in 1875 is present inhabited by oer people thus in edite of the steadily swelling the annual increase of the population of germany amounts to if this ratio ia not disturbed by any extraordinary event as war plague or famine germany would nu uber 50 million of souls in the middle of the decade just begun in such a manner the german empire would bo come the mot powerful klalo of europe except amsia by its own of population with this fact in our mind bellicose rivalry between france with her exceptionally slow rate of increase and germany could not ba thought of prance could not bei plans for re vanche and recovery of aldaco lorraine Lor within the present decade she will have to abandon them forever for the military strength of the german nation grows ath tho growth of the total population at present the army is at the rate of to ot the census of 1875 thus embracing embr aping a numerical strength of over men this number has been granted the government by as long to 1888 up to which date the former cannot increase it nor the latter reduce it ag already remarked rem irked germanas germanys Germ anys rapid increase is for no country more ominous than fo france the latter country always was a little be bind be former and the less of alsace and their tion of was doubly unwelcome those former german provinces whose people retained the german fruitfulness under french rulo furnished the greatest contingent to and contributed materially in filling up the ranks of the napoleonic since france has lost those her rate of birth to deaths has be coma more ua fAvorable while in a ibo excess of birtha over deaths o to per cent it eunk as low as on per cent in france or in wholesale number while in ger many the birong current emigration the population ie by annually france that knows hardly any amb emb gration adds only to her population in a year today to day the population of france is at least to million below that of her eastern neighbor if therefore france de aires to keep up the military elut numerous and efficient ae her old and archenemy arch enemy she will hare to impose relatively larger burdene on her population it is true indeed that the number af pf people do not fully cr correctly indicate it strength and france ex aeed a much in wealth national or ia a she ur in numbers did not obtain her laurel in th battle field by mere excess but by higher intelligence and stricter discipline in these france ie rap idly improving but enuch more ehe advances in the wealth ga liering arta of peace and hence the will always afi worthy and formidable rival to the |
