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Show WHERE SHALL WE SETTLE. 627 rich and populous, are sure to miscarry. That section has an area greater than that of all the States east of the Mississippi ; but its pop-ulation fifty years hence will not be greater than that of Massachu-setts. Only in the Senate will the relative power of the East and West be changed in the future; and probably very little there. Col-orado was only admitted after a ten years' struggle. Nevada ought to be set back to a Territorial condition to- day, if there were any consti-tutional way of doing justice. The child is not born that will live to see her with population enough for'one Congressional district. Here is a liberal estimate of the maximum population these divisions are likely to have in the year 1900: Colorado, . . . . . . . . 250,000 Wyoming, . . . . .' . . 100,000 Dakota, ........ 300,000 Idaho, 100,000 Washington, ......... 125,000 Utah, 250,000 New Mexico, . . . . . . . . 150,000 Montana, 100,000 Nevada, ........ 75,000 Arizona, 50,000 Total, 1,500,000 Extraordinary discoveries may enable some one of the mining re-gions to get ahead of the others, but the grand total can not be greater than here set down ; and only the most favorable contingencies can make it so great. The influence which this may have upon our social and national life opens a wide field for discussion. The good land at the disposal of our Government is nearly exhausted. But a few more years and there will be no more virgin soil awaiting the immigrant. Then the half desert lands must be won with great toil, or we must turn back and fill up the corners which have been overrun in our rush for the best spots. Our surplus population will then have no rich heritage to look to, where a homestead can be had for the taking. The paternal farm in the East must be divided again and again, if all the boys are to have a share. What will be the effect on our discon-tented classes ? Will it add a new strain to republican government, and will the troubles which menace the old world monarchies then come upon us and find us unprepared to treat them rightly? or is there yet room in the Eastern States for us to grow harmoniously for another century? These be momentous questions. Certain theorists have further troubled themselves about the silver supply ; and timid editors and politicians have suggested that if more |