The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1911-11-24

bered 49,4SS,441, while those having
one or both parents foreign born mum
bered 1S,9OO,66S, or 59S and 20.6 per
cent, respectively. of the total popu-
lation of the country at that census.
These proportions are practically the
same as those shown by the census of
1900, but as compared with 1890. there
has been a slight decrease-from 54.7
to $50 per cent-in the proportion of
native white persons of native parent
age, and a considerable increase-from
1873 to 206 per eent-in the proportion
of native white persons of foreign par
entage. The latter class constituted
27.6 per cent of the total native white
population in both 1910 and in 1900, as
compared with 25 per cent in 1890.
Decennlal Increase in The Main
Elements.
Table No shows the decennial in
crease in each of the main elements of
the population of continental United
States since 1880. In figuring the in
crease from 1880 to 1890 the population
(325,464 specially enumerated in In
dian Territory and on Indian reserva-
tions in 1890 is excluded as the cor
responding population for 1880 was not
enumerated 1t should be borne in
mind that, except for the negro popu-
lation which is not appreciably affect
ed by immigration, none of these per-
centages of increase represent natural
increase from excess of births over
deaths Thus the native white per
sons of native parentage for 1910 in
clude not merely the children born
since 1900 as the offspring of the class
of native white of native parents, but
also as the offspring of the class of
the native white persons of foreign
parentage.
The Natural Rate of Increase.
Since 1900 the white population as a
whole, as shown by preliminary state
ment issued recently by the census
bureau, has increased 22.3 per cent, as
compared with an increase in the negro
population of 11.3 per cent, the excess
in the percentage of increase for the
whites being due in part as then ex-
planned, to the large immigration of
foreign-born whites during the decade.
1t was also estimated in the same state
ment that the increase in the white
population, apart from immigration,
would have been not quite Is per cent,
representing approximately, though not
precisely, the natural rate of increase.
1t was further stated that the appar-
emily very marked falling off in the per-
centage of increase of the negro popu-
lation during the decade 1900-1910, as
compared with the preceding decade, is
possibly due to an under-count of the
negroes in 1890.
1t is not possible to determine the ex-
tent to which the increase in each ele-
ment of the white population is due to
natural increase from excess of births
over deaths, but, in Judging the signifi-
canoe of the percentages shown in
Table No. 2. consideration should be
given to the difference between the ac-
tual and modified percentages of in
crease just presented for the white
population as whole.
Gradual Decline in Native White Rate
of Increase.
Disregarding the question as to the
source of the increase, Table No. 2
shows that the native white population
has increased 20.S per cent since 1900,
as compared with a gain of 23.1 per
cent from 1890 to 1900 and of 245 per
cent from 1880 to 1890; there being a
gradual decline in the rate of increase
from decade to decade In the foreign
born white population, on the other
hand, there has been an increase of
90.6 per cent since 1900, as compared
with a gain of only IL per cent from
1890 to 1900 and of very nearly 40 per
cent (39D from 1880 to 1890; these
arising from the fluctuations
in the number of immigrants during
the three decades in question.
The native whites of native parents
and those of foreign-born parents in
creased at substantially the same rate
during the last decade, 190O-1910, but
in the preceding decade, 1890-1900, the
rates of increase for the two elements
differed materially For the native
white element of native parentage, as
shown by Table No. 2, the rate of in
rease from 1900 to 1910 is considerably
higher than that from 1890 to 1900,
20.9, as against 1873 per cent,
whereas for the native white element
of foreign parentage the rate of in
crease for the last decade is very much
less tha nthat for the preceding decade,
or 20.8 as against Sc per cent These
variations in the rates of increase for