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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1912.
the Nation, of each State, and of each com
munity for the conservation and enhance
ment of child health.
"To become an effective instrument for
the protection and promotion of child
health, it is essential that the school should
not only be a sanitary, healthful place for
children, but that the various agencies in
public education should be so organized that
each pupil may be given the best possible
opportunity to escape weakness and disease
and far more to realize the attainable best
in growth, in development of biological, in
tellectual, moral, social and economic pow
er. '' —Statistical.
NEGROES IN THE UNITED STATES.
A preliminary statement showing by
states and geographic division sthe num
ber and proportion of mulattoes among the
Negroes enumerated at the Thirteenth De
cennial Census of the United States, taken
as of Auril 15, 1910, been issued by Census,
Department of Commerce and Labor. The
statistics were prepared under the direction
of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for
population in the Bureau of the Ceneus, and
are subject to revision. The statement gives
comparative figures for 1870 and 1890, no
jlata being available for 1880 or 1900-
The term "mulatto" as used in the cen
sus of 1910 includes all persons, not full
blooded Negroes, who have some proportion
or perceptible trace of Negro blood. The
Bureau of the Census does not regard the
returns as being beyond question, since the
classification of Negroes as full-bloods or
mulattos was necessarily to a considerable
degree dependent upon the personal opinion
and conscientiousness of the enumerators.
The results, however, are believed to ap
proximate the facts for the country as a
whole and for large aggregates.
In 1910 there were in continental United
States as a whole, 9,827,763 Negroes, of
whom 2,050,686, or 20.9 per cent, were re
ported as mulattoes. In 1890 there were
1,132,060 mulattoes reported, or 15.2 per
cent of all the Negroes, and in 1870 a total
of 584,049, or 12 per cent. Thus the figures
taken at their face value show that about
one-fifth of all the Negroes in 1910 had
some admixture of white blood, as against
about one-eighth in 1870. It may be noted,
however, that an increase in the mulatto
element does not necessarily imply increas
ing intermixture with the whites, since the
children born of marriages between blacks
and mulattoes would be mulattoes, accord
ing to the census definition.
The percentage of mulattoes reported va
ries widely in different states and different
sections of the country. It was to be ex
pected that the percentage would be rela
tively high in those sections where the Negro
population is small as compared with the
total population and would be higher in
the North than in the South. In general
the results are in agreement with this pre
sumption. In New England, and in the East,
North, Central and Pacific divisions about
one-third of the Negro population were re
ported as mulattoes, while in each of the
three southern divisions the proportion is
only about one-fifth. In the Middle Atlantic
division for some reason the percentage is
not higher than it is in the Southern di-
THE SEATTLE REPUBLICAN
a"se -' --■-.
JOHN H. SCHIVELY
Candidate for the Republican Nomi
nation of State Insurance Com
missioner.
visions. This may possibly be due to the
rapid growth of Negro population in that
division through immigration from the
South.
NOWADAYS.
Folks are telling nowadays
That the devil's gone away;
Ministers have caught the craze,
And some preach it, strange to say.
Claim it isn't, any more,
Right to think there is a hell,
Where the awful fires roar,
And proclaim the sinner's knell.
Yet when we see
On every hand,
The greedy clutch
That binds the land; %
The want, distress and deep despair,
It seems to us
There is no doubt
Tlic devil still exists somewhere.
Nowadays the fashions run
To a more "free-thinking" view,
For, no matter what you've done,
Fires of hell won't torture you.
"Satan's only just a myth,
He's not on earth," they say,
"Torturing the sinners with
Fiery brands of hell today."
But when we gaze
Around and see
The wretchedness
And poverty,
The crimes, the wrongs done here and there,
It seems to us
The devil lives,
And fires of hell must burn somewhere,
For, no matter what you've done.
—Selected.
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JAMES T. LAWLER
Candidate for
Judge of the Superior Court
King County, Washington
Primary Election, Sept. 10, 1912.
JOHN T. CASEY
for
Superior Court Judge
Law Office, 449 New York Block, Seattle
Main 8642
Election Sept. 10, 1912.
A. R. UPRIGHT
Candidate for
State Land Commissioner
Subject to Republican Primaries Septein
her .10, 1912.
DAVID H. COX
Republican Candidate for
State Treasurer
Subject to Republican Primaries, Septem
ber 10, 1912.
L. FRANK BROWNE
Non-Partisan Candidate for
Judge of Superior Court
King County, Washington
Primary, Sept. 10, 1912.
JOHN £ H.UMPHRIES
Non-Partisan Candidate for
Judge of Superior Court
King County, Washington
Primary Election Sept. 10, 1912.
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