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Show LESSON TAUGHT BY THE CENSUS RETURNS SHOW THAT RACE SUI CI0E SPECTRE IS STALKING STALK-ING THROUGH THE LAND. Signa Point to a Dropping Away of Fifty Percent in Internal Increase of Our Population from Former Recorda. Washington Hturtllng cnnilusloiis spring from an exumlnaiion ol the returns re-turns of tho census of l!H0, aa far as the rrturna havr coiue In. when com pared with alatlstlca of nallonul gruwlh In former d. cadea. The com lug rut'u aiikiilii caala Ita shallow he fore, for thr nutural Increase of Ihe nullve-b.irn Amerlciin la falling off to an alurtnlng otient and anoiher du cade, at thla rale, would put ua In the class with i'rnnec, whose Urcrras-lug Urcrras-lug pupulutliin hna been the burning luetlon with the governmetil (here. Ill spile of all our natural resources and all Ihr national nnd stale aid to encouragit an Increiiau keeping atop with former yeura. Hut signs point lo a dropping away of r.O per rent in In ternal Increase of populullon from the records of former decades. The returns will ahow Hint the rural population la punltlvely decreasing, and that thr clllea are ubaorhlng a greater portion of the newcomera. |