The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-01-03
WHERE WEALTH LIES
Home and Farm Owners Are
Very Well Off.
Possess 80 Per Cent Of Wealth
in United States
MOST FARMS CLEAR.
White Owners of Unencumbered
Farms II Per Cent.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The census
Office has made public a report showing
that the owners of farms and homes re-
garded as substantially the land own
ers of the United States own more
than 90 per cent of the wealth of the
country. OF the white owners and
tenant heads more than 81 per cen
are owners; of the negroes more than
II per cent; of mixed white and negro
parentage, 25 per cent;of the Indians,
65, and of the Chinese and Japanese,
IA. The white owners of farms and
homesteads free from mortgage form
III per cent of all the white owners;
of the negroes, 80: of those of mixed
+ parentage, 81; or the Indians, 90, and
of the Chinese and Japanese, 81 per
cent. The percentage of ownership is
slightly higher for women than for
men, and free ownership is also
higher among women except with the
: Indians and Chinese and japanese.
+ The results for farm properties
i show that 70 per cent of the whites
are owners. 21 of the negroes, 20 Of
those of mixed blood, 70 of the In
dams and over 10 per cent of the
Chinese and Japanese, while for
homes, 80 per cent of the whites are
owners, more than Is per cent of the
negroes, % of those of mixed blood,
SO of the Indians and IA of the
Chinese and Japanese. In the fifty
eight cities of so, 600 population and
over, almost rs per cent of the white
prOprietors are owners and not quite
per cent of the negroes
For farms and homes, So per cent of
the native proprietOrs are owners;
from Austria Hungary, II per cent;
from Canada and Newfoundland
(French), 81; Wales and England, As;
France, At; Germany, SO; Ireland, "A;
Italy, Is; Norway, Sweden and Dem
mark, 81; Russia and Poland, 81;
Scotland, as, and from all other
countries over Al per cent. The native
farm proprietors are exceeded in
ownership by the natives of all of
these countries except Italy, whose
percentage for native owners is
SO, and for the Italians IS,
and the highest percentage is
81, for the Irish. Ownership is more
prevalent among native than among
foreign born proprietors in the case
of homes than it is among farm pro-
prietors. OF the native proprie tors
of homes Al per cent are owners and
the lowest percentage, representing
the ownership of homes for places of
birth is - for the Italians.
The ownership of the homes in the
fifty eight principal cities is nearly
as great among the foreign born s
among the natives. Among the ma
tive home proprietors IN these cities,
23 per cent are owners. The highest
percentage being 80 for the Germans,
and the lowest 8 for the Italians.
The results of the inquiry as to ma
tivity of parents of the white native
farm and home proprietor shows
that for farms and homes SIS per cent
oi the proprietors who have both par
ents native born are owners and 43
per cent of those who have one or
both parents foreign born. The per-
centages for farm owners having
both parents native born is 50, and
in the case of homes, 40 per cent
The total for both sexes and for
farms and homes shows that of the
prophet tors under 25 years of age, 20
per cent are owners, from 25 to %
years, 2S per cent; from 30 to "a years,
81 per cent; from SIS to 80 years, AZ per
cent: 40 to "A, 40 per cent; 45 to 40, 81
per cent; SO to "a, 81 per cent; So to
90, 60 per cent and so years and over
60 per cent. Percentages are general
ly somewhat higher for women than
for men.
81 IL ~ " hOloAl 10 klCF die IL
at all ages than home ownership.
Almost thirty five per cent of farm
prOprietors under 25 years of age
are owners. and the percentage
increases with age up to eighty three
per cent for owners of 60 years and
over. Ownership is more prevalent
8 among women, VINO are farm and home
owners and heads of tenant families
than among men, the ownership Of
the women being represented by fifty
seven per cent and the men forty-si1
per cent.
The ownership of farms and homes
is divided between the two sexes in
the proportion of SO per cent 20 the
males and II per cent to the females
Slightly more than quarter of the
2,92S, 671 owned homes OF the United
States are owned by women, anC
about one-tenth of the 341, 745 owned
farms.