Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Numerical Status of the Negro. [ARTICLE]

Numerical Status of the Negro.

Those who have predicted that the negro race, because of essential inferiority, would ultimately die out as a result of unprotected contact with the vices of the white civilization will not find their theories supported by the returns of their census of 1900. The negro, in fact, is holding his own. He has gained a foothold on the continent to which he was transplanted in bondage and not by his own volition, from which he cannot be dislodged. Any theories advanced that may contemplate his final extinguishment will have to be radically revised when the tabulation of population by nativity and color now going on in the census bureau is completed. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript calls attention to the fact that the question of gain or loss in the negro race has been left in dispute by previous censuses. From the figures at hand it seems probable that the negro population of the United States In 1900 was a little over 9,000,-

000. The ratio that the negro bears to the total in the states already counted will make the negro constitute 11.8 per cent of the total population of the country, as against 11.9 ten years ago. Professor George C. Tilden, a min-

eralogist and the author of several works on that subject, has been brought from San Salvador and placed in a sanitarium in California. He is in a state of mental collapse due to overwork and the trying climate of tha Central American republic.