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Title: Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grose, Howard Benjamin, 1851-
Subjects: Missions -- Cuba Missions -- Puerto Rico Cuba -- Description and travel Puerto Rico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Young people's missionary movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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. Numbers in Each Division. Accepting thisstandard, how many are there of the Cubans proper,and in what proportion do they stand to the otherinhabitants? The census of 1907 comes just intime to answer our questions on this and many otherimportant points. The native whites (Cubans)number 1,224,539, in a total population of 2,048,980.The others are composed of: Foreign white, 203,-637 (185,000 of whom are Spanish, and 6,713 fromthe United States) ; black (pure negroes), 274,272;mixed, 334,695; and yellow (Chinese), 11,837, allmales but 196. The Cubans proper have a clearmajority over all, and the whites all together consti-tute more than two thirds of the population. Thereis no danger of the loss of a decided white ma-jority, unless unforeseen changes take place, as thecolored population has decreased and the Avhitesteadily increased since 1775. Small Population. The census of 1899 gave atotal of 1.572.797 people, as against 2,048,980 in1907—an increase of nearly a half million, or 39
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CUBAN LABORERS—FOUR NATIONALITIESMARKET-PLACE, SANTIAGO THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE 69 per cent, in eight years; while in the decade preced-ing 1899 there was a decrease of 58,890, owing tothe death-rate of revolution and reconcentration.The present population of Cuba, therefore, is aboutequal to that of California or Virginia, or t0 thecombined population of Connecticut, New Hamp-shire, and Rhode Island. All the people of Cubacould be put into Chicago, and not fill its presentquota by 400,000; put on Manhattan Island theywould not reach by 250,000 the population of thatcentral borough of Greater New York. 2. What the People Are Like A Less Strenuous Pace. In your first days inSantiago or Havana, toward midday, you see groupsof men mostly undersized lounging around in theshady places, with work at a standstill; and recall-ing the mad rush at that hour in New York or Chi-cago, and impressed with the general atmosphereand attitude of languor, you conclude that the Cu-bans are shiftless

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