The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-01-11

Ht 1tnSuS Ntlilte Hltltt pubiiN -
port showing that the owners of farms
and homes, regarded as substantially rhe
landowners of the United States, own
more than 90 per cent. Of the wealth If
the country OF the white owners ana
tenant heads more than 81 per cent are
owners; of the negroes, more than II Der
cent; of mixed white and negro parent
age. % per cent. Of the Indians. Ga, and
of the Chinese and japanese, IL. The
white owners of farms and homes that are
free from mortgage form IL per cent. of
all white owners; of negroes, 50; Of those
of mixed parcntage, 81; of the Indians, Jj;
and of the Chinese and japanese. 81 PR
cent. The percentages of ownership are
slightly higher for women than for men,
and free ownership is also higher among
women except with the Indians and Chi
nese and Japanese.
The results for farm properties show
that - per cent. Of the whites are own
ers, y of the negroes. 20 of those Of mixed
blood, 10 of the Indians, and over 10 per
cent. of the Chinese and Japanese, while
for home 30 per cent. of the whites are
owners, more than - Of the negroes, %
of those of mixed blood, 70 of the indians,
and II of the Chinese and Japanese. The
mortgage are Il per cent of all white
owners; negroes, 90; those of mixed par
entage, 50; Indians, o.: and Chinese AMI
japanese, 81. The corresponding figures
for homes are nearly the same.
In the fifty-eight cities Of $4,000 popu-
lation and over almost % per cent of the
white proprietors are owners, and not
quite per cent. of the negroes.
fa MI = Of
the native proprietors are owners; from
Austria Hungary, II per cent; from Can
ada and Newfoundland QGnglish). II;
from Canada and Newfoundland QFrench),
81; Wales and England, 16: France. II;
Germany, -; Ireland, Az Italy, -; Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark. Gl Russia,
and Poland, 81; Scotland. 10, and from
all other countries, over II per cent.
The native farm proprietors are exceed
ed in ownership by the natives of all #
these countries except Italy, whose per-
centage for native owners is co and for
the Italians Is. The highest percentage
is 81, for the Irish. Ownership is more
prevalent among native than rmong foc-
eign-born proprictors in the casp Of homes
than it is among farm proprletors. Of
the native proprietors of homes IL per
cent. are owners, and the lowest percent
age representing the ownership of homes
for places of birth is II, for cle Italians.
The ownership of homes i.l the fifty
eight principal cities is nearly as great
among the foreign born rs 1ong the ma
tives. Among the native home propre-
tors in these cities % per cent. are owners.
The highest percentage is 81, for the Ger
mans, and the lowest q, for tAe Italians.
The result of the inquiry as TO nativity
of parents of the white native farm and
home proprietors shows that for farms
and homes % per cent of the proprietors
| have both parents native born and owners
and 43 per cent. those who have one or
both parents foreign born. The percent
ages for farm owners having both pa
rents native born is 60 and in the case Of
| homes AZ per cent The total for both
sexes and for farms and homes shows
! that of the prOprietOrs under % years Of
age 20 per cent. are owners; from % TO %
| years, 2S per cent. from 30 to 81 years,
81 per cent. from 80 10 80 years 40 per
cent; 40 to Al years, 10 per cent; 40 TO
40 years, IS per cent; 80 to 81 years, ~
per cent; 30 TO 80 years, 63 per cent. and
60 years and over, 90 per cent. Percent
ages are generally somewhat higher for
women than for men. Farm ownership
is more prevalent at all ages than home
ownership. Almost 80 per cent. of farm
proprietors under % years Of age are own
ers and the percentage increases with age
up to SO per cent. for owners of 60 years
and over. Among home proprietors of
less than % years of age - per cent. are
owners and the percentage increases with
out interruption 10 IS per cent. for OWL
ers of GO years and over.
Ownership is more prevalent among
women who are farm and home owners
and heads of tenant families than among
men, the ownership of the women being
represented by 81 per cent. and the men
46. The women exceed the men also IN
the fifty-eight principal cities, where OF
the male home proprietors 23 per cent. are
owners and of the female 81 per cent
| One reason for the difference between the
figures for the two sexes is the custom
that makes the husband instead of the
wife the head of the family. The owner.
ship of farms and honrcs is divided be-
tween the two sexes in the proportion Of
SO per cent. to the males and II to tho
females. Slightly more than one-quartcI
of the 2,92S,6T1 owned homes of the
United States are owned by women aud
about one-tenth of the 3,142, I4G owned
farms.