MALES OF VOTING AGE.

The total number of males of voting age was 551,639, this number being a little more than one-fourth (26.9 per cent) of the total population. In the United States in 1900 males of voting age formed a somewhat larger proportion (27.8 per cent) of the total population of that country.

The following table presents the data concerning the citizenship and literacy of males of voting age:

'Includes black, mixed, and yellow.

The following table shows for each province and for the city of Habana, first, the proportion which males of voting age bear to the total population and second, the proportion which Cuban citizens bear to the total population:

The smallest proportions of males of voting age were found in those provinces where the increase of population was the most rapid and where presumably the proportion of children was greatest, and the largest proportions were in the metropolis and its province, as a result of the presence in the more populous center of large numbers of foreign born adults.

The smallest proportions of Cuban citizens to the total population were found in Oriente and in Habana city. In Oriente the reason for the small proportion is the large number of children, while in Habana city the very cause which produced a large proportion of males 21 years and over, caused a small proportion of Cuban citizens, namely, the presence of large numbers of foreign born. The largest proportion was in Matanzas province, where families were small and the rate of increase of population low.

Color and nativity. The males of voting age in Cuba in 1907 were distributed as follows by color and nativity:

Nearly three-fourths of the males of voting age were white, and nearly onehalf were native white. The colored formed a little more than one-fourth and the whites of Spanish birth, a little less than one-fourth.

Of the total number of males of voting age, 430,514, or 78.0 per cent, were Cuban citizens. These were distributed as follows by color and nativity:

Three-fifths of all Cuban citizens were native whites, and nearly one-third were colored, while practically all of the remainder were of Spanish birth. The natives of other countries had become naturalized in Cuba to only a trifling extent.

Males of voting age who were of other than Cuban citizenship numbered

121,125 and formed 22 per cent of all males of voting age. They were distributed as follows by color and nativity:

Naturally the greater part of the aliens were of Spanish birth. Almost all of the alien colored were Chinese.

The following table shows the proportions which the aliens of each of the above elements of the population bore to the total population of voting age of that element:

Almost all, 98.6 per cent, of the native whites had remained Cuban citizens and more than nine-tenths of the colored owed allegiance to this island. Of the Spanish born, less than one-fourth had become naturalized in Cuba; and of white persons of other birth the proportion was still smaller.

The following table shows for each province and for the city of Habana the composition of the males of voting age, as regards nativity and race:

PER CENT OF MALE POPULATION AT LEAST 21 YEARS OF AGE.