In 1910 the number of males of voting age in continental United States was 26,999,151, or 29.4 per cent. of the total population, as compared with 21,134,299, or 27.8 per cent. of the total population in 1900. Of these 13,211,731 were of native-born white parentage; 4,498,966 native white of foreign or mixed parentage; 3,035.333 of naturalized, foreign-born white popplation; 570.588, foreign-born white, of parents who had taken out their first papers; 2,265,121 of alien, foreign-born white population; 775,564 of other foreign-born white parentage; 2,459,327 of negro parentage; and 182,521 of all other parentage, inclusive of Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and other Asiatics. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE UNITED STATES. In the United States women enjoy suffrage on equal terms with men at all elections in six states, as follows: Wyoming, established in 1869; Colorado, in 1893; Utah, in 1896; Idaho, in 1896: Washington, in 1910 and California, in 1911. Besides the school suffrage, which prevails in some form in 30 states, taxpaying women have been granted the right to vote as follows: In Montana, Louisiana and Michigan, on questions submitted to taxpayers, with a proxy vote permitted in Louisiana; in Iowa and Kansas, on the question of issuing bonds; in Minnesota, equal suffrage on the election of library trustees; in Kansas, municipal suffrage; in New York, on local taxation. CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS. The Young Men's Christian Association was organized in England in 1821 by Sir George Williams; the movement has spread to America, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, and even China and Japan In 1911 there were 2,118 associations in North America, with a membership of 536,037; total net property, $67,539,475; number of employed officers, 3,351; students in educational classes, 61.904; 648 gymnastums; 159,855 enrolled in gymnasiums; 172 athletic fields; 235 railroad associations with 86,091 members; 767 student associations with 62,026 members; boy membership, 103,570. There were also in 1911, 196 city associations for women, 667 student and 12 industrial and rural associations with a total membership of 228,757 young women. COLOR, NATIVITY AND PARENTAGE OF POPULATION, FOR There are in all 229 cities which had in 1910 more than 25,000 inhabitants, with an aggregate population of 28,543,816. Of the combined population of these cities, native whites of native parentage number 10,149,145, or 35.6 per cent.; native whites of foreign or mixed parentage, 9,219,007, or 32.3 per cent.; foreign-born whites, 7,479,033, or 26.2 per cent.; negroes, 1,625,640, or 5.7 per cent.; all other, 70,991, or 0.2 per cent. For continental United States, as a whole, the equivalent numbers and percentages are: Native whites of native parentage, 49,488,441, or 53.8 per cent; native whites of foreign or mixed parentage 18,900,663, or 20.6 per cent.; foreign-born whites, 13,343,583, or 14.5 per cent.; negroes, 9,828,294, or 10.7 per cent. The combined population (28,543,816) of the 229 cities taken together constitutes 31 per cent. of the entire population (91,972,266) of continental United States in 1910. In the case, however, of native whites of native parentage, the number in these cities constitutes only 20.5 per cent. of the total number in the United States, while for native whites of foreign or mixed parentage the percentage is 48.8 and for foreign-born whites, 56. For negroes the percentage in the principal cities is 16.5. The foreign-born white element is mainly concentrated in the Northern and Eastern states, and in many of the cities in these states the proportion of foreign-born whites in the total population is very large. Passaic, N. J.. has 28,467 foreign-born whites, representing 52 per cent, of its total population (54,773). This is the largest proportion of foreign-born whites in any of the principal cities, and Lawrence, Mass., with 41,319 foreign-born whites in a total population of 85,892, has the next largest proportion, 48.1 per cent. There are 11 other cities in each of which the foreignborn whites constitute more than 40 per cent. of the total population, namely, Perth Amboy, N. J., 44.5; New Bedford, Mass., 44.1; Woonsocket, R. I., 43.4; Fall River, Mass., 42.6; Chelsea, Mass., 42.4; Manchester, N. H., 42.4; New Britain, Conn., 41; Lowell, Mass., 40.9; Shenandoah, Pa., 40.6; New York, N. Y., 40.4; Holyoke, Mass., 40.3. Negroes constitute one-fourth or more of the total population in each of 27 principal cities, and in 4 of them the proportion is more than half, namely, Charleston, S. C., 31,05 negroes, or 52.8 per cent.; Savannah, Ga., 33,246, or 51.1 per cent.; Jacksonville, Fla., 29,293 or 50.8 per cent.; Montgomery, Ala.. 19,322, or 50.7 per cent. |