Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-19
GERMAN IMPORTANCE
SHOWN IN COLD FIGURES
Marvellous Development of Fstherland
Places Germany in First Rank of
Producing and Consuming Nations.

Producing and Consuming Nations.
The Importance to the world OF the German
Empire, with It's colonization work and vast
manufactures, and the black result which must
come to Germany and Indirectly to the other
countries whether the Kaiser wins loses In
the European Armageddon, Is Just beginning
to be realized.
The Empire OF the Kaiser Is made up of four
kingdoms. six grandducbies, five duchies seven
principalities, two provinces, Alsace-Lorraine,
and three FREQ towns.
Tho population of Germany, by the 1910 CEN
sus. was 64925o93, 1904 to the square mile;
32,04O.166 males and s2,ss5, ,s27 females. In June
1918, the population was estimated at 66 09e 900.
Germany has four colonies in Africa, one in
Asia and eight among the islands of the Pa
cific, with combined population of 243Ss
whites, 12o416O3 natives; total. 12,O65.992. This
makes the total population Of the German EN-
pre 7S16i,992.
The area OF Germany is 20S,7S0 square miles
which, with 1027,S2O square miles of the coll
onies brings the Of the German Empire
to 1236000 square miles.
According to the last census there were
129.S73 foreigners in Germany; 1886 subjects
of Belgium, 1910 French, 1879 English and
Irish, 1O4,2oi Italians, 1886 subjects Of Luxem-
burg, 1A.i75 Dutch. 667,15o Austrians and Hun
garians, 1857 subjects Of Russia and Fin
land, and 1852 Americans
The German Empire has seven cities of more
than half million population. They are:
Berlin 2071257 Hamburg 93i.O35; Munich $685.
46I; I.eipsig, 5s9,s5O Dresden, 54s,3Os: Cologne
5iG,527, and Breslau, 5121O5.
The latest available figures show the annual
births of Germany to average 1925 ss3, with
1,OS5,oa6 deaths; the population thus increas-
ing at the rate OF S39,ss7 a year The German
birth rate has shown a marked decline in re-
cent years as follows: In 1876 It was, per 1000
inhabitants, 426 per cent. in 1896 It was s73:
in 1906 1t was 341; in 1909 it was $40: and In
1911 only 295.
Where formerly many thousands of German
subjects emigrated annually. in the last few
years the emigration has been cut down con-
sideraby In 1912, the last figures available
1886 Germans left the Fatherland: BIOS to the
United States, 225 to Brazil, 419s to other North
and South and Central American countries. sOl
to other countries Of Europe, 322 to Australia
four to Asia and none to Africa
A year ago the estimated total wealth of the
German Empire was $50, SOC, ,OO0O 900 as compared
with United States, Sl3OOOO 900 900; Great Britain
$4,000 100000; France. S65 900 900 600: Russia Ao-
oooooooOO Austria Hungary, $4,000 900 OOO Italy,
s2O,OOOOOO0Oo. and Belgium $1,000 100000
The last occupation census of Germany taken
Sl,4s7,1O0 employed, as follows: Agriculture and
stock raising, 97S2 472; mining. metal work and
kindred industries 11,256,254; commerce, trade
and manufacture, 3,477526; domestic and othe,
service. 1736,4JO: professions, 17Ss,53O: forestry
hunting and fishing, 15O,7S5; without profes.
sions. miscellaneous, 3iO49S3.
In the last general elections in GERMANY there
were H,442,3S7 voters on the lists and 122so,73l
actually cast ballots, as follows Socialists,
4,25o,39s; Centre party, 1.996S4S; National Lib
erals, 1,662,67o; Radicals 1904 Conservatives,
1,126,27O.
In the German Parliament. the Reichstag, on
April l, this year, there were 112 Socialists,
50 of the Centre party, At National Liberal e
Conservatives, A Radicals IS Poles and 10 j,
Conservatives 5'e
In 1900 there were 65,l9s.53O acres under C, -
vation in Germany with 1885, 800 acres i,
meadows and permanent pastures, those bA, L
the latest returns available ~
Last year Germany, in tons, produced t,, 8
following crops: Wheat. 4.655. .s56; rye, 49,:
1874; barley 3673,254; oats 97l3s65 potatoes. ti.i
l2ll46 hay. 29,1S4,S94; hops 1857; tobacco. VII
'o2. The latest reports showed there were leeAI
$4,000 fruit trees in Germany. 45l6 2s7 horse y
o,15S,73s cattle, 5,7SGS4s sheep. g1,sS5,O73 swii
ind s3sS.971 goats
In 1918 Germany's total imports amounted I'd
=, 673,75OOOO against exports OF s247s 10000 as
follows: Agricultural products and foodstuffs
mportsA 7591s4,5OO exports. s4S2 O39 $50; textile
materials and manufacturers, imports s2O1. .lg7-
So exports $3.50 1880; leather and leather
Foods, imports, s4o9l425O, exports $18S sO4. $50;
ase metals and manufactures thereof, imports,
I235300O, exports s456, ,3S9 900: machinery and
lectrical goods, imports, sS5 OS475O exports
2l7. 45l.2O: chemical and pharmaceutical prod
cts, imports, s1O7.5s6 25O; exports S24s, ,1os.5OO
In 1912 Germany produced a mineral output
Z 5s2'25OOoO in coal. Ignite, iron zinc. lead
opper rock salt and potassic salt Her foun.
ry products that year were: Pig iron S2I2627-
%; zinc, s2S5s975o; lead, slIO3SOOO; copper, su,-
$500; tin. S9.S74.O0j. Two years ago the fsh
rIes of Germany Yielded slO39l6 900