Nuhou, Volume II, Number 12, 22 ʻAukake 1873 — First Cost of a Man or Woman [ARTICLE]

First Cost of a Man or Woman

|i An eeonomie An)erican journal enters int- ? |icurious ca"lculations as to the aetual eo?!, in dvj lare and cents, whiph a man and woman wou M j:cost the world and aociety by the time he or slr j;got old enough to fyegin to <4 pay espenses." *. j;refcurn back to the ,country what thus far hf j beeo espended in rearing their populntion. j; " £very baby it ie fair to awume, when prof» j brought up, eosU its parenU at lea«t fifty j a year, an expense whieh increa-es lurge]y u.~ ji ciofching, the shelter of a warm home, eeluealk:: j;and spending money| are re«|uired for the gro\% ln c ;tshild. The actual post up to the fifteenth yea: of eaeh chiid in thīs JRepublic, is certairily n. ' i less fchan a thousand dollars. At that age its !abor would be worth, its subsistence. Xot illl i* j;reaches the age of eighteen (und agreat ma uy u y jieven fchen) does it really begin to be producth\ j For every 100,000 children the Nation has tQpr.»j duce Bix to eight toillions of dollars eoneumelwithout adding at £ll to production. To rea: jifchafc number of ehihjlren to a producti\e ugej tainly eosts a hundrpd millions of dollarB, wit! ■ oufc any profit vvhate|?er in return. llerein is- t! > ;greafc value of immigration, This great Kepu' - j;lie receives into its broad and glorious l)osou j;every day uot than one thousand eai;igrants from fche old world. Of these ;perhaps seven hundred avr adults, reavly grow: for us by her eost up to the piouueilw puint, when they eome to our shores to glvc I the benetit of their Aunually does Europ labor indu6trioui?ly fo produee aud raise for or. - j|republic, i'ree of eost, more tbau persoL> j whom we couid nofc ,have furnisbed ourselves at a jexpense of $300,000,000. No wonder that wj grow rieh and prqsperoiu<, for the !os< of tbj worid is our gain, and all eountries are nu.! jiu rt j; mothers for ouw. 1 " ; j; if we couid oniy reeeive a few thousand I raised on foreign shores, inlo our glorious vok ani. j bosom, we eould aptonish the world too., W . | sineerely hope tiuu Asia and Malaysia, and p-'i'-jha|>s Ameriea and |Europe are nursmg ever - j many ehikueu at their own espense, in order t j make fchem a present to us to supply our needs .; | labor and popu!atioii > both eouib!ne\l. We eoul.' | then brag of our whieh the sinew? . : j toreign lands had mainly produeed

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