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Chapter 7 - Confidence Intervals and Sample Size
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1. The term
zα / 2
H nK
describes the ___________________.
A) unbiased estimator C) maximum error of estimate
B) confidence interval D) interval estimate
Ans: C Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

2. An interval estimate may or may not contain the true value of the parameter being
estimated.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

3. The confidence level of an interval estimate of a parameter is the probability that the
interval estimate will contain the parameter.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

4. When computing a confidence interval for a population mean using raw data, round off to
two more decimal places than the number of decimal places in the original data.
Ans: False Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

5. The ______________________ is the maximum likely difference between the point

estimate of a parameter and the actual value of the parameter.
Ans: maximum error of estimate
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

6. The formula for the confidence interval of the mean for a specific α is
____________________.
 σ   σ 
Ans: X − zα 2   < µ < X + zα 2  
 n  n
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

7. What is the value of α used in describing the confidence interval shown below.

A) 0.01 B) 0.02 C) 0.04 D) 0.05

Ans: B Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

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8. Identify the degree of confidence displayed in the confidence interval shown below.

A) 90% B) 95% C) 98% D) 99%

Ans: A Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

9. The value of α 2 used in the figure below is 0.02.

Ans: False Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

10. What value of zα 2 is used in confidence interval shown below?

Ans: 1.65
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.1

11. A sample of 35 different payroll departments found that employees worked an average of
240.6 days a year. If the population standard deviation is 18.8 days, find the 90%
confidence interval for the average number of days µ worked by all employees who are
paid through payroll departments.
A) 232.4 < µ < 248.8 C) 235.4 < µ < 245.8
B) 230.9 < µ < 250.3 D) 236.8 < µ < 244.4
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

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12. A study of 75 bolts of carpet showed that their average length was 76.2 yards. The
standard deviation of the population is 4.6 yards. Which of the following is the 98%
confidence interval for the mean length per bolt of carpet?
A) 75.2 < µ < 77.2 C) 75.6 < µ < 76.8
B) 73.7 < µ < 78.7 D) 75.0 < µ < 77.4
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

13. A student looked up the number of years served by 35 of the more than 100 Supreme
Court justices. The average number of years served by those 35 justices was 13.8. If the
standard deviation of the entire population is 7.3 years, find the 95% confidence interval
for the average number of years served by all Supreme Court justices?
A) 11.4 < µ < 16.2 C) 12.2 < µ < 15.4
B) 11.8 < µ < 15.8 D) 12.6 < µ < 15.0
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

14. An economics professor randomly selected 100 millionaires in the United States. The
average age of these millionaires was 54.8 years. If the standard deviation of the entire
population of millionaires is 7.9 years, find the 95% confidence interval for the mean age
of all United States millionaires?
A) 54.0 < µ < 55.6 C) 53.3 < µ < 56.3
B) 53.5 < µ < 56.1 D) 52.8 < µ < 56.8
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

15. According to a study of 90 truckers, a trucker drives, on average, 540 miles per day. If
the standard deviation of the miles driven per day for the population of truckers is 40,
find the 99% confidence interval of the mean number of miles driven per day by all
truckers?
Ans: 529 < µ < 551
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

16. The average score for 36 teenage boys playing a certain computer game was 90,000
points per player. If the standard deviation of the population is 20,000 points, find the
95% confidence interval of the mean score for all teenage boys?
Ans: 83,000 < µ < 97,000
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

17. The average number of mosquitos caught in 49 mosquito traps in a particular

environment was 600 per trap. If the standard deviation of mosquitos caught in the entire
population of traps is 50 mosquitos. What is the 99% confidence interval for the true
mean number of mosquitos caught in all mosquito traps?
Ans: 582 < µ < 618
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

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18. A study of 95 apple trees showed that the average number of apples per tree was 825.
The standard deviation of the population is 150. Which of the following is the 95%
confidence interval for the mean number of apples per tree for all trees?
A) 810 < µ < 840 B) 800 < µ < 850 C) 795 < µ < 855 D) 790 < µ < 860
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

19. A study of 45 professors showed that the average time they spent creating test questions
was 15.5 minutes per question. The standard deviation of the population is 4.8. Which
of the following is the 90% confidence interval for the average number of minutes it
takes to create a test question?
A) 14.6 < µ < 16.4 C) 14.3 < µ < 16.7
B) 13.1 < µ < 17.9 D) 14.9 < µ < 16.1
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

20. Jennifer wants to find a 95% confidence interval for the time it takes her to get to work.
She kept records for 30 days and found her average time to commute to work was 20.5
minutes with a standard deviation for the population of 3.9 minutes. Jennifer's maximum
error of estimate would be 1.4 minutes.
Ans: True Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

21. A study of 50 white mice showed that their average weight was 6.2 ounces. The standard
deviation of the population is 0.9 ounces. Which of the following is the 98% confidence
interval for the mean weight per white mouse?
A) 5.90 < µ < 6.50 C) 6.05 < µ < 6.35
B) 5.95 < µ < 6.45 D) 5.61 < µ < 6.79
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

22. If a population has a standard deviation of 12, what is the minimum number of samples
that need to be averaged in order to be 95% confident that the average of the means is
within 2 of the true mean?
A) 273 B) 12 C) 139 D) 24
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.1

23. A study of nickels showed that the the standard deviation of the weight of nickels is 300
milligrams. A coin counter manufacturer wishes to find the 98% confidence interval for
the average weight of a nickel. How many nickels does he need to weigh to obtain an
average accurate to within 25 milligrams?
A) 144 B) 782 C) 959 D) 554
Ans: B Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.1

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24. A researcher conducted a study of the access speed of 50 hard drives and concluded that
his maximum error of estimate was 24. If he were to conduct a second study to reduce the
maximum error of estimate to 6, about how many hard drives should he include in his
new sample?
A) 50 B) 100 C) 200 D) 800
Ans: D Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.1

25. A previous analysis of paper boxes showed that the the standard deviation of their lengths
is 15 millimeters. A packer wishes to find the 95% confidence interval for the average
length of a box. How many boxes does he need to measure to be accurate within 3
millimeters?
A) 25 B) 136 C) 97 D) 69
Ans: C Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.1

26. A study of peach trees found that the average number of peaches per tree was 625. The
standard deviation of the population is 70 peaches per tree. A scientist wishes to find the
99% confidence interval for the mean number of peaches per tree. How many trees does
she need to sample to obtain an average accurate to within 14 peaches per tree?
A) 25 B) 136 C) 151 D) 167
Ans: D Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.1

27. A study of elephants is conducted to determine the average weight of a certain subspecies
of elephants. The standard deviation for the population is 500 pounds. At a 95% level,
how many elephants need to be weighed so the average weight will be accurate to within
200 pounds?
A) 25 B) 29 C) 34 D) 57
Ans: A Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.1

28. The t-distribution must be used when the sample size is greater than 30 and the variable is
normally or approximately normally distributed.
Ans: False Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.2

29. The t-distribution has a variance that is greater than one.

Ans: True Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.2

30. One of the characteristics of the t-distribution is that the curve never touches the ____-
axis.
Ans: x
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.2

31. The _________________ are the number of values that are free to vary after a sample
statistic has been computed.
Ans: degrees of freedom
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.2

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32. In a study using 16 samples, and in which the population variance is unknown, the
distribution that should be used to calculate confidence intervals is
A) a standard normal distribution.
B) a t distribution with 15 degrees of freedom.
C) a t distribution with 16 degrees of freedom.
D) a t distribution with 17 degrees of freedom.
Ans: B Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.2

33. A food snack manufacturer samples 13 bags of pretzels off the assembly line and weighs
their contents. If the sample mean is 13.7 oz. and the sample standard deviation is 0.50
oz., find the 95% confidence interval of the true mean.
A) 13.6 < µ < 13.8 C) 11.5 < µ < 15.9
B) 12.6 < µ < 14.8 D) 13.4 < µ < 14.0
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.2

34. 4 squirrels were found to have an average weight of 9.0 ounces with a sample standard
deviation is 0.7. Find the 95% confidence interval of the true mean weight.
A) 7.9 < µ < 10.1 B) 6.8 < µ < 11.2 C) 8.3 < µ < 9.7 D) 8.7 < µ < 9.4
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.2

35. The winning team's score in 5 high school basketball games was recorded. If the sample
mean is 72.3 points and the sample standard deviation is 11.0 points, find the 98%
confidence interval of the true mean.
A) 67.4 < µ < 77.2 C) 60.8 < µ < 83.8
B) 53.9 < µ < 90.7 D) 35.4 < µ < 109.2
Ans: B Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.2

36. The rounding rule for a confidence interval for a proportion is to round off to three
decimal places.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.3

37. The symbol for the sample proportion is ______.

Ans: p̂
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.3

38. If p̂ is equal to 0.86, then q̂ is equal to ______.

A) 0.86 B) 0.50 C) 0.41 D) 0.14
Ans: D Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.3

39. In a study of 100 new cars, 31 are white. Find p̂ and q̂ , where p̂ is the proportion of
new cars that are white.
A) pˆ = 0.31, qˆ = 0.31 C) pˆ = 0.69, qˆ = 0.31
B) pˆ = 0.31, qˆ = 0.69 D) pˆ = 0.69, qˆ = 0.69
Ans: B Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.3

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40. A sample of 400 racing cars showed that 80 of them cost over $700,000. What is the 99%
confidence interval for the true proportion of racing cars that cost over $700,000?
Ans: 0.148 < p < 0.252
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

41. A recent study of 750 internet users in Europe found that 35% of internet users were
women. What is the 95% confidence interval of the true proportion of women in Europe
who use the internet?
A) 0.349 < p < 0.351 C) 0.316 < p < 0.384
B) 0.321 < p < 0.379 D) 0.309 < p < 0.391
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

42. A survey of 800 women shoppers found that 17% of them shop on impulse. What is the
98% confidence interval for the true proportion of women shoppers who shop on
impulse?
A) 0.167 < p < 0.173 C) 0.139 < p < 0.201
B) 0.144 < p < 0.196 D) 0.136 < p < 0.204
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

43. A random sample of 60 voters found that 42% were going to vote for a certain candidate.
Find the 99% limit for the population proportion of voters who will vote for that
candidate.
A) 25.6% < p < 58.4% C) 29.5% < p < 54.5%
B) 27.5% < p < 56.5% D) 33.8% < p < 50.2%
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

44. A random sample of 65 printers discovered that 20 of them were being used in small
businesses . Find the 95% limit for the population proportion of printers that are used in
small businesses.
A) 0.101 < p < 0.514 C) 0.213 < p < 0.402
B) 0.195 < p < 0.420 D) 0.270 < p < 0.345
Ans: B Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

45. In a sample of 55 mice, a biologist found that 44% were able to run a maze in 30 seconds
or less. Find the 90% limit for the population proportion of mice who can run a maze in
30 seconds or less.
A) 38.5% < p < 49.5% C) 33.0% < p < 55.0%
B) 35.4% < p < 52.6% D) 27.4% < p < 60.6%
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

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46. It was found that in a sample of 90 teenage boys, 70% of them have received speeding
tickets. What is the 90% confidence interval of the true proportion of teenage boys who
have received speeding tickets?
A) 0.620 < p < 0.780 C) 0.584 < p < 0.830
B) 0.591 < p < 0.812 D) 0.615 < p < 0.805
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

47. The Pizza Shop wanted to determine what proportion of its customers ordered only
cheese pizza. Out of 80 customers surveyed, 15 ordered only cheese pizza. What is the
99% confidence interval of the true proportion of customers who order only cheese
pizza?
A) 0.075 < p < 0.300 C) 0.102 < p < 0.273
B) 0.086 < p < 0.289 D) 0.115 < p < 0.260
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

48. In a sample of 855 bartenders, 48.0% report hearing complaints from patrons about their
jobs. If the maximum error of estimate for the proportion of bartenders hearing job
complaints is 4.4 percentage points, what is the degree of confidence used?
A) 90% B) 95% C) 98% D) 99%
Ans: D Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.3

49. A recent poll of 700 people who work indoors found that 278 smoke. If the researchers
want to be 98% confident of their results to within 3.5 percentage points, how large a
sample is necessary?
A) 751 B) 1062 C) 33 D) 532
Ans: B Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.3

50. A report states that 40% of home owners have a vegetable garden. How large a sample is
needed to estimate the true proportion of home owners who have vegetable gardens to
within 6 percentage points with 96% confidence?
A) 83 B) 141 C) 205 D) 281
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

51. The Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons states that 80% of women wear shoes that are too
small for their feet. A researcher wants to be 98% confident that this proportion is within
3 percentage points of the true proportion. How large a sample is necessary?
A) 966 B) 683 C) 1183 D) 484
Ans: A Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.3

52. John Davis, a manager of a supermarket, wants to estimate the proportion of customers
who use food stamps at his store. He has no initial estimate of what the sample
proportion will be. How large a sample is required to estimate the true proportion to
within 3 percentage points with 98% confidence?
A) 756 B) 1,849 C) 1,067 D) 1,509
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

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53. A retailer wants to estimate with 99% confidence the number of people who shop at his
store. A previous study showed that 24% of those interviewed had shopped at his store.
He wishes to be accurate within 3% of the true proportion. The minimum sample size
necessary would be 1,100.
Ans: False Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

54. A quality control expert wants to estimate the proportion of defective components that
are being manufactured by his company. A sample of 300 components showed that 20
were defective. How large a sample is needed to estimate the true proportion of defective
components to within 2.5 percentage points with 99% confidence?
Ans: 661
Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

55. A report states that 44% of home owners had a vegetable garden. How large a sample is
needed to estimate the true proportion of home owners who have vegetable gardens to
within 6% with 90% confidence?
A) 47 B) 94 C) 187 D) 374
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

56. A college believes that 24% of applicants to that school have parents who have
remarried. How large a sample is needed to estimate the true proportion of students who
have parents who have remarried to within 3 percentage points with 99% confidence?
A) 450 B) 1101 C) 1350 D) 2025
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.3

57. A chi-square distribution is negatively skewed.

Ans: False Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

58. A chi-square variable cannot be negative, and the distributions are positively skewed.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

59. The area under each chi-square distribution is equal to _______.

Ans: 1.00
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

60. In order to find confidence intervals for variances and standard deviations, one must
assume that the variable is _________________.
Ans: normally distributed
Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

61. The formula for the confidence interval for a standard deviation is
____________________.
( n − 1) s 2 ( n − 1) s 2
Ans: <σ <
χ right
2
χ left
2

Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

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62. What is the value for χleft

2
for a 95% confidence interval when n = 18?
A) 7.564 B) 8.672 C) 9.390 D) 8.231
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

63. What is the value for χright

2
for a 98% confidence interval when n = 12?
A) 27.688 B) 24.725 C) 21.920 D) 26.217
Ans: B Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

64. The value for χright

2
for a 95% confidence interval when n = 15 is 26.119.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Section: 7.4

65. Find the values for χleft

2
and χ right
2
when α = .05 and n = 17.
A) 6.908 and 28.845 C) 7.962 and 26.296
B) 7.564 and 30.191 D) 8.672 and 27.587
Ans: A Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

66. The value for χleft

2
for a 99% confidence interval when n = 24 is 9.262.
Ans: True Difficulty: Easy Sectio n: 7.4

67. What is the 90% confidence interval for the variance of exam scores for 28 algebra
students, if the standard deviation of their last exam was 12.7?
A) 123.7 < σ 2 < 312.7 C) 108.6 < σ 2 < 269.6
B) 122.8 < σ 2 < 316.5 D) 10.4 < σ 2 < 16.4
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

68. What is the 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation of birth weights at County
General Hospital, if the standard deviation of the last 25 babies born there was 1.1
pounds?
A) 0.8 < σ < 2.1 B) 0.7 < σ < 2.3 C) 0.8 < σ < 1.9 D) 0.9 < σ < 1.5
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

69. For a random sample of 23 European countries, the variance on life expectancy was 7.3
years. What is the 95% confidence interval for the variance of life expectancy in all of
Europe?
A) 27.2 < σ 2 < 118.3 C) 4.4 < σ 2 < 14.6
B) 5.6 < σ 2 < 10.3 D) 28.9 < σ 2 < 115.0
Ans: C Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

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70. Find the 95% confidence interval for the variance of the heights of maple trees if a
sample of 16 trees has a standard deviation of 8.2 feet.
A) 6.2 <σ 2 < 10.2 C) 51.2 <σ 2 < 83.2
B) 6.1 <σ 2 < 12.7 D) 36.7 < σ 2 < 161.1
Ans: D Difficulty: Moderate Section: 7.4

71. Find the 95% confidence interval for the standard deviation of the lengths of pipes if a
sample of 16 pipes has a standard deviation of 10.6 inches.
A) 8.6 < σ < 12.6 C) 96.4 < σ < 128.4
B) 7.8 < σ < 16.4 D) 61.3 < σ < 269.1
Ans: B Difficulty: Difficult Section: 7.4

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appointments to be made according to fitness, competitively
ascertained, and public servants to be retained in office only
so long as shall be compatible with the efficiency of the
service.

"Combinations, trusts, and monopolies contrived and arranged

for the purpose of controlling the prices and quantity of
articles supplied to the public are unjust, unlawful, and
oppressive. Not only do these unlawful conspiracies fix the
prices of commodities in many cases, but they invade every
branch of the State and National Government with their
polluting influence and control the actions of their employés
and dependents in private life until their influence actually
imperils society and the liberty of the citizen. We declare
against them. We demand the most stringent laws for their
destruction and the most severe punishment of their promoters
and maintainers and the energetic enforcement of such laws by
the courts.
"We believe the Monroe doctrine to be sound in principle and a
wise National policy, and we demand a firm adherence thereto.
We condemn acts inconsistent with it and that tend to make us
parties to the interests and to involve us in the
controversies of European nations and to recognition by
pending treaty of the right of England to be considered in the
construction of an interoceanic canal. We declare that such
canal, when constructed, ought to be controlled by the United
States in the interests of American nations.

"We observe with anxiety and regard with disapproval the

increasing ownership of American lands by aliens and their
growing control over our international transportation, natural
resources, and public utilities. We demand legislation to
protect our public domain, our natural resources, our
franchises, and our internal commerce and to keep them free
and maintain their independence of all foreign monopolies,
institutions, and influences, and we declare our opposition to
the leasing of the public lands of the United States whereby
corporations and syndicates will be able to secure control
thereof and thus monopolize the public domain, the heritage of
the people.

"We are in favor of the principles of direct legislation. In

view of the great sacrifice made and patriotic services
rendered we are in favor of liberal pensions to deserving
soldiers, their widows, orphans, and other dependents. We
believe that enlistment and service should be accepted as
conclusive proof that the soldier was free from disease and
disability at the time of his enlistment. We condemn the
present administration of the pension laws.

"We tender to the patriotic people of the South African

Republics our sympathy and express our admiration for them in
their heroic attempts to preserve their political freedom and
maintain their national independence. We declare the
destruction of these republics and the subjugation of their
people to be a crime against civilization. We believe this
sympathy should have been voiced by the American Congress, as
was done in the case of the French, the Greeks, the
Hungarians, the Poles, the Armenians, and the Cubans, and as
the traditions of this country would have dictated. We declare
the Porto Rican Tariff law to be not only a serious but a
dangerous departure from the principles of our form of
government. We believe in a republican form of government and
are opposed to monarchy and to the whole theory of
imperialistic control.

"We believe in self-government—a government by the consent of

the governed—and are unalterably opposed to a government based
upon force. It is clear and certain that the inhabitants of
the Philippine Archipelago cannot be made citizens of the
United States without endangering our civilization. We are,
therefore, in favor of applying to the Philippine Archipelago
the principle we are solemnly and publicly pledged to observe
in the case of Cuba.

"There no longer being any necessity for collecting war taxes,

we demand the repeal of the war taxes levied to carry on the
war with Spain.

"We favor the immediate admission into the union of States the
Territories of Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.

"We demand that our nation's promises to Cuba shall be

fulfilled in every particular.

"We believe the National Government should lend every aid,

encouragement, and assistance toward the reclamation of the
arid lands of the United States, and to that end we are in
favor of a comprehensive survey thereof and an immediate
ascertainment of the water supply available for such
reclamation, and we believe it to be the duty of the General
 Government to provide for the construction of storage
reservoirs and irrigation works so that the water supply of
the arid region may be utilized to the greatest possible
extent in the interests of the people, while preserving all
rights of the State.

"Transportation is a public necessity and the means and

methods of it are matters of public concern. Railway companies
exercise a power over industries, business, and commerce which
they ought not to do, and should be made to serve the public
interests without making unreasonable charges or unjust
discriminations.

"We observe with satisfaction the growing sentiment among the

people in favor of the public ownership and operation of
public utilities.

"We are in favor of expanding our commerce in the interests of

American labor and for the benefit of all our people by every
honest and peaceful means. Our creed and our history justify
the nations of the earth in expecting that wherever the
American flag is unfurled in authority human liberty and
political liberty will be found. We protest against the
adoption of any policy that will change in the thought of the
world the meaning of our flag.

"We are opposed to the importation of Asiatic laborers in

competition with American labor, and favor a more rigid
enforcement of the laws relating thereto.

"The Silver Republican party of the United States, in the

foregoing principles, seeks to perpetuate the spirit and to
adhere to the teachings of Abraham Lincoln."

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900.

Platform of the American League of Anti-Imperialists.

Republicans and others opposed to a policy of conquest, and to

the government of people, not as citizens, but as subjects of
the Republic of the United States, and who wished to make that
opposition distinct and emphatic in the presidential canvass,
met in convention at Indianapolis, on the 16th of August, as
the "Liberty Congress of the American League of
Anti-Imperialists." One party among them thought the best
demonstration of public opinion on this issue could be
obtained by the nomination of a third ticket; while another
and larger party deemed it expedient to indorse the candidacy
of William J. Bryan, as a pronounced opponent of the imperial
policy. The views of the latter prevailed, and the indorsement
of Mr. Bryan was carried in the convention; but many of the
former refused submission to the vote of the majority, and
subsequently held a Third Party convention at New York (see
below). The Indianapolis Declaration was as follows:

"This Liberty Congress of Anti-Imperialists recognizes a great

National crisis, which menaces the Republic, upon whose future
depends in such large measure the hope of freedom throughout
the world. For the first time in our country's history the
President has undertaken to subjugate a foreign people and to
rule them by despotic power. He has thrown the protection of
the flag over slavery and polygamy in the Sulu Islands. He has
arrogated to himself the power to impose upon the inhabitants
of the Philippines government without their consent and
taxation without representation. He is waging war upon them
for asserting the very principles for the maintenance of which
our forefathers pledged their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred honor. He claims for himself and Congress authority to
govern the territories of the United States without
constitutional restraint.

"We believe in the Declaration of Independence. Its truths,

not less self-evident to-day than when first announced by our
fathers, are of universal application and cannot be abandoned
while government by the people endures.

"We believe in the Constitution of the United States. It gives

the President and Congress certain limited powers and secures
to every man within the jurisdiction of our Government certain
essential rights. We deny that either the President or
Congress can govern any person anywhere outside the
Constitution.

"We are absolutely opposed to the policy of President

McKinley, which proposes to govern millions of men without
their consent, which in Porto Rico establishes taxation
without representation, and government by the arbitrary will
of a legislature unfettered by constitutional restraint, and
in the Philippines prosecutes a war of conquest and demands
unconditional surrender from a people who are of right free
and independent. The struggle of men for freedom has ever been
a struggle for constitutional liberty. There is no liberty if
the citizen has no right which the Legislature may not invade,
if he may be taxed by the Legislature in which he is not
represented, or if he is not protected by fundamental law
against the arbitrary action of executive power. The policy of
the President offers the inhabitants of Porto Rico, Hawaii and
the Philippines no hope of independence, no prospect of
American citizenship, no constitutional protection, no
representation in the Congress which taxes them. This is the
government of men by arbitrary power without their consent.
This is imperialism. There is no room under the free flag of
America for subjects. The President and Congress, who derive
all their powers from the Constitution, can govern no man
without regard to its limitations.

"We believe the greatest safeguard of liberty is a free press,

and we demand that the censorship in the Philippines, which
keeps from the American people the knowledge of what is done
in their name, be abolished. We are entitled to know the
truth, and we insist that the powers which the President holds
in trust for us shall not be used to suppress it.

"Because we thus believe, we oppose the reelection of Mr.

McKinley. The supreme purpose of the people in this momentous
campaign should be to stamp with their final disapproval his
attempt to grasp imperial power. A self-governing people can
have no more imperative duty than to drive from public life a
Chief Magistrate who, whether in weakness or of wicked
purpose, has used his temporary authority to subvert the
character of their government and to destroy their National
ideals.

"We, therefore, in the belief that it is essential at this

crisis for the American people again to declare their faith in
the universal application of the Declaration of Independence
and to reassert their will that their servants shall not have
or exercise any powers whatever other than those conferred by
the Constitution, earnestly make the following recommendations
to our countrymen:

"First, that, without regard to their views on minor questions

of domestic policy, they withhold their votes from Mr.
McKinley, in order to stamp with their disapproval what he has
done.

"Second, that they vote for those candidates for Congress in

their respective districts who will oppose the policy of
imperialism.

"Third, while we welcome any other method of opposing the

re-election of Mr. McKinley we advise direct support of Mr.
Bryan as the most effective means of crushing imperialism. We
are convinced of Mr. Bryan's sincerity and of his earnest
purpose to secure to the Filipinos their independence. His
position and the declarations contained in the platform of his
party on the vital issue of the campaign meet our unqualified
 approval.

"We recommend that the Executive committees of the American

Anti-Imperialist League and its allied leagues continue and
extend their organizations, preserving the independence of the
movement; and that they take the most active part possible in
the pending political campaign.

"Until now the policy which has turned the Filipinos from warm
friends to bitter enemies, which has slaughtered thousands of
them and laid waste their country, has been the policy of the
President. After the next election it becomes the policy of
every man who votes to re-elect him and who thus becomes with
him responsible for every drop of blood thereafter shed.

"In declaring that the principles of the Declaration of

Independence apply to all men, this Congress means to include
the negro race in America as well as the Filipinos. We
deprecate all efforts, whether in the South or in the North,
to deprive the negro of his rights as a citizen under the
Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United
States."

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900.

The "Third Party" Anti-Imperialist Platform and Nominations.

The Anti-Imperialists who desired a Third Party ticket in the

field, called a convention which met in the city of New York,
September 5, and put in nomination for President and Vice
President Senator Donelson Caffery, of Louisiana, and
Archibald Murray Howe, of Massachusetts. The name "National
Party" was assumed, and its "aims and purposes" were thus
declared:

"We find our country threatened with alternative perils. On

 the one hand is a public opinion misled by organized forces of
commercialism, that have perverted a war intended by the
people to be a war of humanity into a war of conquest. On the
other is a public opinion swayed by demagogic appeals to
factional and class passions, the most fatal of diseases to a
republic. We believe that either of these influences, if
unchecked, would ultimately compass the downfall of our
country, but we also believe that neither represents the sober
conviction of our countrymen. Convinced that the extension of
the jurisdiction of the United States for the purpose of
holding foreign people as colonial dependents is an innovation
dangerous to our liberties and repugnant to the principles
upon which our Government is founded, we pledge our earnest
efforts through all constitutional means:

"First, to procure the renunciation of all imperial or

colonial pretensions with regard to foreign countries claimed
to have been acquired through or in consequence of military or
naval operations of the last two years.

"Second, we further pledge our efforts to secure a single gold

standard and a sound banking system.

"Third, to secure a public service based on merit only.

"Fourth, to secure the abolition of all corrupting special

privileges, whether under the guise of subsidies, bounties,
undeserved pensions or trust breeding tariffs."

Within a few weeks after the holding of this convention,

Senator Caffery and Mr. Howe withdrew their names from the
canvass, and it was decided to appoint electors-at-large in as
many states as possible, to receive the votes of those
supporting the movement.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900.

Social Democratic Party Platform and Nominations.
The last distinct movement of organization for the
presidential election was that of a "Social Democratic Party,"
whose convention, at Chicago, September 29, placed Eugene V.
Debs, of Illinois, in nomination for President, and Job
Harriman, of California, for Vice President, on principles
declared as follows:

"The Social Democratic party of America declares that life,

liberty, and happiness depend upon equal political and
economic rights.

"In our economic development an industrial revolution has

taken place, the individual tool of former years having become
the social tool of the present. The individual tool was owned
by the worker, who employed himself and was master of his
product. The social tool, the machine, is owned by the
capitalist, and the worker is dependent upon him for
employment. The capitalist thus becomes the master of the
worker, and is able to appropriate to himself a large share of
the product of his labor.

"Capitalism, the private ownership of the means of production,

is responsible for the insecurity of subsistence, the poverty,
misery, and degradation of the ever-growing majority of our
people; but the same economic forces which have produced and
now intensify the capitalist system will necessitate the
adoption of Socialism, the collective ownership of the means
of production for the common good and welfare.

"The present system of social production and private ownership

is rapidly converting society into two antagonistic classes—i.
e., the capitalist class and the propertyless class. The
middle class, once the most powerful of this great nation, is
disappearing in the mill of competition. The issue is now
between the two classes first named. Our political liberty is
now of little value to the masses unless used to acquire
economic liberty. Independent political action and the
trade-union movement are the chief emancipating factors of the
working class, the one representing its political, the other
its economic wing, and both must cooperate to abolish the
capitalist system.

"Therefore, the Social Democratic party of America declares

its object to be:

"First—The organization of the working class into a political

party to conquer the public powers now controlled by
capitalists.

"Second—The abolition of wage-slavery by the establishment of

a National system of cooperative industry, based upon the
social or common ownership of the means of production and
distribution, to be administered by society in the common
interest of all its members, and the complete emancipation of
the socially useful classes from the domination of capitalism.

"The working class and all those in sympathy with their

historic mission to realize a higher civilization should sever
connection with all capitalist and reform parties and unite
with the Social Democratic party of America. The control of
political power by the Social Democratic party will be
tantamount to the abolition of all class rule. The solidarity
of labor connecting the millions of class-conscious
fellow-workers throughout the civilized world will lead to
international Socialism, the brotherhood of man.

"As steps in that direction, we make the following demands:

"First-Revision of our Federal Constitution, in order to

remove the obstacles to complete control of government by the
people irrespective of sex.
 "Second—The public ownership of all industries controlled by
monopolies, trusts, and combines.

"Third—The public ownership of all railroads, telegraphs, and

telephones; all means of transportation and communication; all
water-works, gas and electric plants, and other public
utilities.

"Fourth—The public ownership of all gold, silver, copper,

lead, iron, coal, and other mines, and all oil and gas wells.

"Fifth—The reduction of the hours of labor in proportion to

the increasing facilities of production.

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"Sixth—The inauguration of a system of public works and

improvements for the employment of the unemployed, the public
credit to be utilized for that purpose.

"Seventh—Useful inventions to be free, the inventor to be

remunerated by the public.

"Eighth—Labor legislation to be National instead of local, and

international when possible.

"Ninth—National insurance of working people against

accidents, lack of employment, and want in old age.

"Tenth—Equal civil and political rights for men and women, and
the abolition of all laws discriminating against women.

"Eleventh—The adoption of the initiative and referendum,

proportional representation, and the right of recall of
representatives by the voters.

"Twelfth—Abolition of war and the introduction of

 international arbitration."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900.

The Canvass and Election.

The canvass preceding the election was much less excited than
that of 1896. The confusion of issues greatly lessened the
intensity with which they were discussed. Mr. Bryan again took
the field in person, travelling widely through all parts of
the country, making great numbers of speeches to immense
audiences everywhere; and Governor Roosevelt did the same on
the Republican side, to a somewhat less extent.

The election, which occurred on the 6th of November, was

conducted with the quiet order that is rarely broken at such
times in America. About fourteen millions of votes were cast,
of which, according to the returns compiled for the Tribune
Almanac,
President McKinley received 7,214,027,
and Bryan, 6,342,514.
For the Prohibition ticket, 197,112 votes were cast;
for the Socialist Labor ticket, 32,433;
for the Social Democratic ticket, 82,904;
and 78,444 votes were scuttered among other candidates.
The States carried for McKinley were:
California, giving 9 electoral votes;
Connecticut, 6;
Delaware, 3;
Illinois, 24;
Indiana, 15;
Iowa, 13;
Kansas, 10;
Maine, 6;
Maryland, 8;
Massachusetts, 15;
Michigan, 14;
Minnesota, 9;
Nebraska, 8;
New Hampshire, 4;
New Jersey, 10;
New York, 36;
North Dakota, 3;
Ohio, 23;
Oregon, 4;
Pennsylvania, 32;
Rhode Island, 4;
South Dakota, 4;
Utah, 3;
Vermont, 4;
Washington, 4;
West Virginia, 6;
Wisconsin, 12;
Wyoming, 3;

Total, 292.

For Bryan, the electoral votes of the following States

were given:
Alabama, 11;
Arkansas, 8;
Colorado, 4;
Florida, 4;
Georgia, 13;
Idaho, 3;
Kentucky, 13;
Louisiana, 8;
Mississippi, 9;
Missouri, 17;
Montana, 3;
Nevada, 3;
North Carolina, 11;
South Carolina, 9;
Tennessee, 12;
Texas, 15;
 Virginia, 12;

Total, 155.

President McKinley was re-elected by a majority of 137 votes

in the Electoral College, and by a majority of nearly half a
million of the popular vote.

" The popular vote for President shows three interesting

things:

"(1) Many men of each party abstained from voting, for the
total was only 45,132 greater than in 1896, whereas the
increase in population adds about a million to the electorate
every four years. The total vote last year was 13,970,234. Mr.
McKinley received only about 100,000 more than in 1896, and
Mr. Bryan 130,000 less. Many men in each party, then, were
dissatisfied with their candidate and platform.

"(2) Mr. Bryan's largest gains were in New England, because of

the anti-Imperialistic feeling, and in New York and New Jersey
and Illinois, because of a milder fear of financial
disturbance; and his losses were greatest in Utah, in
Colorado, and in the Pacific States, an indication of better
times and of less faith in free silver.

"(3) Twelve Southern States cast a smaller vote than in 1896,

partly because of the elimination of the Negroes, and partly
because many Gold Democrats abstained from voting."

The World's Work, February, 1901.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1900.

The Democratic candidate on "Imperialism."

The issue which ought to have been supreme in the Presidential

election, because fundamental principles of government and
lasting consequences of policy were bound up in it, but which
was unhappily confused by prevailing anxieties in the
sensitive region of commercial and industrial affairs, is more
broadly and adequately defined in the declarations of the two
leading candidates, on their formal acceptance of nominations
by the Democratic and Republican parties, than it is in the
party platforms quoted above. The first to speak was Mr.
Bryan. Responding to the committee which notified him of his
nomination, at Indianapolis, ou the 8th of August, he devoted
the greater part of his remarks to the policy of colonial
acquisition on which the government had been embarked. The
following passages are fairly representative of the view taken
by those who condemned what they termed "imperialism," in the
undertaking of the government of the American Republic to
impose its sovereignty upon the people of the Philippine
Islands, and to hold their country as a "possession:"

"When the president, supported by a practically unanimous vote

of the House and Senate, entered upon a war with Spain for the
purpose of aiding the struggling patriots of Cuba, the
country, without regard to party, applauded. Although the
Democrats realized that the administration would necessarily
gain a political advantage from the conduct of a war which in
the very nature of the case must soon end in a complete
victory, they vied with the Republicans in the support which
they gave to the President. When the war was over and the
Republican leaders began to suggest the propriety of a
colonial policy, opposition at once manifested itself.

"When the President finally laid before the Senate a treaty

which recognized the independence of Cuba, but provided for
the cession of the Philippine Islands to the United States,
the menace of imperialism became so apparent that many
preferred to reject the treaty and risk the ills that might
follow rather than take the chance of correcting the errors of
the treaty by the independent action of this country. I was
among the number of those who believed it better to ratify the