About 1908 it crossed the native white line on its ascending progress. the figure being 1.650.000. until in 1915 it reached the figure of 2.461.000. approximately. So that the problem as to the foreignborn white is amlt has been becoming more acute than as to the native born. either white or Negro. This next chart shows that from 1900 to 1914 the immigrants coming to this country totaled 13.377.087. Those over 14 yeals of age numbered 11.726.006. while the illiterates over 14 years of age were 3.116.182. or a ratio of illiterates to the number over 14 was 26.55 per cent. . Southern Italy produced the largest lumber in the era from 1900 to 1905. the figures being 334.482.
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