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- W2236409644 abstract "Legislation to comply with the provision of the Constitu? tion requiring enumeration of all the inhabitants of the United States, was one of the subjects which early claimed the atten? tion of the First Congress. A few of the more thoughtful members of that historic body dimly perceived in the pro? posed census certain limited possibilities of usefulness to the government in addition to securing the basis of appor? tionment of representatives in Congress. The arguments of this small group prevailed with their associates to the oxtent of securing a provision in the law requiring that a few simple facts be obtained, instead merely of a count of inhabitants, and thus the American Census was started upon its career of growth and of usefulness in connection with innumerable public and private problems. At the period of the First Census the opportunity for a vari? ety of striking census facts and hence for usefulness to the statesman and the student unquestionably was much Jess than it is today. A century and a third ago probably no one of the civilized nations possessed a more homogenous popu? lation than did the young republic in North America. The white population of the United States at the time of the first census appears to have been composed of considerably more than 95 per cent, of British stock. Hence, at the earlier censuses, the subjects of nativity and parentage which are of such importance today, in a comparative sense, were scarcely worth considering. Moreover, manufacturing was accomplished by farm households; there was no transpor? tation; wage-earners were almost wholly males; and further? more about 90 per cent, of the population was engaged in, or dependent on, some form of agriculture. Consequently the interesting and complicated subjects of gainful occupa-" @default.
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- W2236409644 title "Some Possibilities in the Practical Application of Federal Census Results" @default.
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