The Literary Digest quotes some figures concerning the next American
- census taken from the Boston News Bureau and the United States Daily of Washington. According to these' authorities the population of the United States on July 1st next will be over 117,000,000. The rate of AtheriCan growth is, however, slowing dOwn owing to the restrictive immigration laws. The net increase in population last year was 1,750,000, five-sixths of which was due to the excess of births over deaths. Immigration accounted for only 262,000. Mr. L. L. Dublin, the chief statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, writing in the Atlantic Monthly,. points to " the-declining fecundity of stocks now composing the American population." He - says : " We Must be prepared at a comparatively early date. foi*stationary population unless the completely change our present attitude towards the foreigner and his further entry into the country, and modify . our approval of small families. - Such a reversal is not likely to take- place, because restriction in the number of children apparently offers many personal • advantages, and- appeals to the average family, which is much more concerned with the immediate increase of its comfort than with abstract principles of obligation to country or to mankind. • • • * - *
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