id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _003394326 Catholic Association for International Peace (U.S.) Committee on U.S. Dependencies. Porto [sic] Rico and the United States : study presented to the Catholic Association for International Peace 1931 .txt text/plain 21330 1047 66 While it may be tenably argued that increase of capital in Porto Rico has resulted in some general spread of wealth in the United States, not even that is clear, nor can it be traced to sugar income; but it is economically certain that no part of the gain in Porto Rico has been shared with Porto Rican laborers. The recorded birth-rate for this population has increased in the first twenty-five years of the twentieth century from 20.5 per thousand in 1901 to 39.0 per thousand in 1925.4 Compared with the birth-rate of 20.6 per thousand of the United States in 1928, and with that of 18.6 for Germany5 in the same year, t^e rate of births to population in Porto Rico is high. cache/_003394326.txt txt/_003394326.txt