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1. How many Germans are settled in the states represented by the 

 officer addressed? 



2. Are they settled in collected colonies or scattered over the 

 country ? 



3. Are they generally engaged in agriculture or in other pursuits? 

 With this circular a blank form for reply was enclosed, covering all 



necessary ground for securing a comprehensive description of the con- 

 dition of German colonization in Latin America. 



A general cordiality was encountered among members of the diplo- 

 matic and consular services in giving the information at their com- 

 mand, so that reports, more or less definite, were received from every 

 one of the republics. They are here presented in tabular form to aid 

 in a study that shall reach a fair understanding of one of the most 

 important problems facing the American people; one that will appear 

 the crucial problem of the twentieth century. It concerns the en- 

 franchisement of 60,000,000 human beings, the inhabitants of this 

 western hemisphere, and their consequent entry into a superior civil- 

 ization. 



The tabulation proceeds from Mexico, our nearest neighbor, to the 

 most remote state of the southern continent, preserving thus a correct 

 spectrum of the geographical relations. 



These figures will be a revelation to the alarmist, apprehensive 

 that Latin America is being submerged beneath a German population 



Names of Republics. 



Mexico 



Guatemala 



Honduras 



Salvador 



Nicaragua 



Costa Rica 



Colombia 



Venezuela 



Brazil 



Ecuador 



Peru 



Bolivia 



Uruguay 



Paraguay 



Chile 



Argentina 



devoted to monarchism. We find 1,051,000 Germans spread over an 

 area of 8,000,000 square miles of territory, already occupied by a native 

 population of more than 60,000,000, who have secured through war 

 their independence of foreign domination, which they show a disposi- 

 tion to guard with jealous watchfulness. 



In the comments appended to their reports by consuls and ministers 

 there is the unanimous agreement that German immigrants constitute 



