Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1900 — CUBA’S CENSUS COMPLETE. [ARTICLE]

CUBA’S CENSUS COMPLETE.

Shows a Population of 1,572,797, with a White Majority. Cuba numbers 1,572,797 souls, according to the census just completed by the United States. Government. It is said that this is the first accurate enumeration ever made in the island. Officials of the War Department now acknowledge there is no reason of further dejay in granting of municipal suffrage. The census shows that the white native-born Cubans hold a safe majority of the votes under the property and educational limitations to be imposed upon the exercise of suffrage in the island. There, are 187,820 white adult males who were born in Cuba, as against 90,083 born in Spain, 6,794 born in other countries and 127,300 colored. The figures themselves show that the proposed basis of suffrage would not result in the Spaniards gaining control of the island.