Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-30
1.HE CENSUS AND RACE SUICIDE.

former year the average was 5.S per-
sons, while in 1900 it was but 4.6 per-
sons. ranging fro Al in a number OF
Estates to 81 in North Carolina. The
Lowest average Of families in 1890 was
5.4 persons in Georgia and the highest
16.4 in Maryland.
Had total number of persons In al
the private families in 1900 been
grouped according to the average sizes
in 1870 there would have been 3.307,-
900 less households than were actually
reported, but had the number of FAM
lilies in 1900 remained the same as re-
ported and the average size as large
as in 1890 the population would have
been increased by nearly 20,coo,00o.
In 1890 the average number OF chill
dren under ,16 in. each white family
was IS, while in 1900 1t was 1.5. The
ratio of nearly two children under Is
years in 1890 to each white female of
the same age declined to one in 1900.
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The proportion shown for six of the
New England states and for New
York is nearly the same as the lowest
European ratio, that of France.
On the basis of the proposition shown
in 1900 there would have been $4,000
children at the first census, in 1890, as
compared with more than 100000 ac-
tually enumerated. On the other
hand, on the basis of proportion in
1890 there would have been 80, 500, 900
children in the United States in 1900,
while in reality the number was less
than 24,OOO,OOO. Had the republic re-
manned as prolific as 100 years ago
there would have been 5000. 600 more
children at the last census than were
reported.
The following comparisons are inter-
estfng:
AT the first census, taken in 1890,
there We're but 272 counties in the area
enumerated. This number, within the
same area, had Increased to 7S5 coun
ties when the twelfth census was TAX
en-, in 1900.
In 1890 there were 1852 cities, towns
and villages specified in the various
states and enumerated in the first CEN
sis. The number had increased to
5,467 in 1900, in the same area. There
were but 431 cities, towns and vii
lagos in the southern states in 1890.
and they had increased to STA in
1900. ss
When the first census was taken
1790-only six cities reported a popula-
ton OF 5000 inhabitants. The num-
Der had increased to 2s6 cities and
towns of over 5000 in 1900 The ag-
gregate population of all cities in the
area enumerated in 1890 was 1S5,207
and Of those having over $4,000 each
in 1900 the population had increased to
1929. 1856.
The white population Of the United
States increased from 3,172,444 in 1890
to sc, 8O9, 1876 in 1900. During the same
period the negro population increased
from 757,37S to $3.50, 994,for 1,067.3 per
cent In 1890 whites formed S0.7 per
cent and negroes, slave and free, 1913
per cent. The negro population had
declined, however, to 11.6 per cent in
1900
While the population Of the country
Increased nineteen fold from 1890 to
1900, the wealth was increased one
hundred fold. The aggregate OF all
property enumerated at the first cen
sus was from s5Oo,0oO,OO0 to 100000 900.
The total per capita wealth was then
about s171.
In 1890 there We're less than 10000
surnames, the actual number enumer-
ated being 27,34O. Almost half of
these, or 1894, appeared but once,
llEuS EACH REPRESENTING DQl Vic AetillitJ.
Only two names are represented by
5000 heads of families and over The
number of, heads of families. with APP
proximate total number of persons, I'M
der few of the most common names
are thus shown in the 1870 census:
Smith, 1892 families, s3,245 persons;
Brown, 3, ass. 1915; Davis, 2,51o,
1890; Jones, 2, SCI, 14.Sc0; Johnson,
2,646, 14,004.
In the nationality analysis 1t is
shown that S3.5 per cent of all the
white. population in 1850 was English
stock and if Scotch and Irish be in
cluded the British stock represented
little over 20 per cent. while the Ger
mans contributed slightly less than 6,
and the Dutch 2 per cent.
1t is noteworthy that in the south