| Show SOME NEGRO STATISTICS r FL L BULLETIN oh ti h the 1 negro Degro population n ef of the United States Alaska a Hawaii He and nd Porto PortoRico PortoRico Rico has Just been Issued by the cen eon census censUs sus sUs department The census censes was sas as taken I four years ers ago 0 but delays for various arlous reasons s have held the concluding Bul Bulletin bul bulletin letin back Some interesting figures regarding g the negroes tl are ar ie given The report repert shows that there are 93 1 Al of them Their Tbell population center is p t in iB DeKalb county Alabama Alabam four fOtt mules miles west wUSt of the tte Georgia G line lineIn IB In t lJ i i i population center was W in Dinwiddle emt b sty nty Virginia This shift of nearly itO O tidIes miles Is ac for by the tact fact that th t negro labor was s never Ver profitable ia iii the north the Ute of oC the die American slave trade Because negroes es were not profi profitable profitable table laDle in the north they thOy t ey Were Wre sold s id to the t south uth th There Thele it has MIS always been b en pos 1 hi rte te to work werk negroes at a profit both as staves ves and as free freb tr men nien and women woman wom n The negroes fit At better into Ints IM the south somehow Ow The TIle census bulletin Shows that of or all the negroes in ia the United States proper about 90 00 per er er cent live Je in the southern taU status Georgia G Alabama and elp i have the largest per er of oft negroes t es f 1 all an the blacks blacksIn In the Ute United Limited State he in those thoS three states In further figures tes the bulletin Informs us 88 that upwards of or 7 71 per p r cent ent of the Ute negroes live in the country as compared red with K bT per cent of 01 the whites Negroes comprise of the population of American AmeI can cities and of or the population of or the Ute country try From ISM te to 1901 1900 the negro population b IS 18 pet per or I MC IS This is the lowest ow rate af f Increase yet re recorded corded and is la lit line with the showing e by the s throughout t the nineteenth century it Is accounted for forby forb by b the tAe fact that the death rate among the tAe Macks averages very vy high hiS approximating 3 per cent while white the death rate rae among the Whites s averages rages aV only oldy on one and aDd per cent Nearly four million m Hon negroes are en engaged engaged In useful occupations most of them in the south in spile of ot the fact f ct ctt hat t the northern people profess to loVe loVetha love the tha negro better than the th tb southerners si f to tn give Mm him more opportunities for making something 5 out o of himself The per eeR of ef negro DegI criminals is also greater ia In laiDe the north than in the south |
