Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-31
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He is FAST becoming the Master Of This
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Among the little-notced, but most i'm
portant facts in the history OF the world,
Is the enormous recent Increase Va num-
Der OF white men in II. IL is barely two
centuries (l6S3) since those races though
even the most energetic Of fnUn6nJ'i
formed but small fraction in the total OF
humanity probably 10 per cent. Of the
Whole--and We're by no means certain th2t
they could defend themselves against the
remainder. The stream Of Asiatic con-
quest had never STOPPED, for the Turks
were at the gates Of Vienna; an African
leet was dominant ia the Mediterranean,
Asia knew nothing Of the whites except
in one or two tolerated settlements on the
coast fringe of India; Africa belonged ex-
rusiyely 10 Africans. and though the
whites had mastered South America,
where, read in the hight Of subsequent
history. their c0nquests were incredibly
rapid, most part of North America still
fell Indian wars to be terrible and even
formidable events. Even a hundred years
later the white people, though under the
operation of the still unexplained law
which at one time fosters and al another
time restricts the growth Of a people, were
increasing slowly, and were still only
population OF the globe. They had, Indeed,
annexed the two Americas ana Northern
Asia, thus quintupling the area OF their
estate upon the planet, and probably mul-
tiplyug their fixed wealth 10y at leas,
twenty fold-a country being always the
largest item in the wealth Of any race or
nation-but they had only begun to settle
in the Western continent, they had but
commenced 10 conquer in southern Asia;
uA nj I'D hfff mo
traiIa, and in Eastern Europe and Vest
ern Asia they We're only slaves 70 an
Asiatlc hOrue. The century, however,
ending 1854, has been marked by an ad-
vance so rapid and so unbrOken as to be
scarcely credible and TO present one Of the
most startling facts in history. The white
race Ia and out Of Europe, under the in
fluence Of some still mysterious call upon
their energies, have multiplied nearly
threshold, aud are to-day, as Mr.. X. Gitlen
has shown IN his recent address 70 the
Statistical Society, 420. 100000. As there
is no evidence Of any corresponding in-
crease In the dark races, and as, Indeed,
such increase has been, outside India,
nearly impossible, the white men are now,
by the best calculations, one-third of the
entire population Of the world, instead OF
being. as they were only two centuries
ago, little more than 10 per cent. They
have, moreover, If anything, increased in
physical strength, and have so developed
in brain, and consequent power Of Organi-
cation, that it may be doubted ifthe whole
remainder of mankind, even II all were
reduced TO equal weapons. could seriously
inJure the white third, which again, il it
chose to act together and employ without
pity tue weapons its intelligence has en-
abied 1t to construct, could IN a few years
reduce the remainder of the world TO an
upinhabited desert. Except in the South
Pacific where, by one means or another,
they kill out the darker men, the white
race show no tendency of that kind
Slough, we take it, In the dawn of history
they eXternninated pretty freely, especially
IN lndia-but they do show a strong dis
position to take possession Of the whole
earth and govern 1t as they please. The
Chinese are the only great race remaining
Which can be said to be truly independent
and free from the predominating influence,
more or less directly exercised, Of the en-
ergetic white men, who pour in increRs-
ing streams over the remainder Of the
eartn's surface They, indeed alone ira
verse the ocean. The Chinese keep few
SHIPS, and a few small vessels, manned by
dark sailors, mostly pirates or slavers or
pilgrim-carrlers, still hang about the
coasts ofSOuthern Asia, but the fighting
nayies OF the world, and its great trans
port ships, and its mercantile marine, are
al alike white. No dark race could bonn
bard a white hArbOr OF transport an army
across hundred miles of sea in the face
Of prohibition from white men, who now
exclusively occupy Europe, except the
corner on which COnstantinOple stands
who occupy twO-thirds Of North America,
and dominate over North and South
America down to Patagonia; who have
taken possession Of Australia and New
Zealand, and most Of the larger isles of
the south Pacific: who claim, if they do
not possess, the whole Of Northern Asia
from the Ural to the Yellow sea, and who
dominate the whole OF India, Indo-China
and the Delta Of the Nile. They Fave
lately taken to eOnquering Africa, and
are entering it at one hundred points at
once; seizing almost silently, certainly
without serious effort, huge slices like
French Africa, South Africa, Madagas-
car, the vast valley Of the Niger, and the
still more extensive region drained blythe
system Of rivers called the Congo Nor is
there much reason 10 believe that the pro-
cess will soon be checked, for the white
men are urged forward by an irresistible
spur over which they have no control.
The increase Of the yellow race, which
must have once been so incredibly fast,
has stopped, and that Of the dark races Of
India, which for century has been
amazing, Is being checked bv recurrent
on 50 fast that the transport OF a huge
army every year across the Atlantic
makes no impression on their numbers.
and AT their present rate OF increase they
will In 1884 be a thousand millions, or
much more than half OF then existing
mankind. The Chinese have recently
shown some resisting power; the English
have apparentiy-it may prove only ap-
parently-halted, indecsiye, in their
march up the valley Of the Nile: but the
general movement sweeps ever forward:
and within the century II seems more
than probable that every corner Of the
earth will be ruled by white men, and that
the Guddg Idpeti genus as Horace per-
ceives them 20 be, will be the only Ifde-
pendent race within the planet, which
their tireless enterprise will then have
rendered quite visible and very small.
Not even internal war arrests the rush,
still less human yOlitiun, Because Ger
mans and frenchmen fought. France IL in
Tonquin, Tunis and Madagascar: and In
spite Of Mr. Gladstone Englishmen are
reaching Lambesi, are encamped in
Egypt, have gained fun footing In Borneo,
are legally reigning on the Niger, ANA are
looking with greedy eyes on all the re.
naming lands 81 the South Pacific. IL IL
difficult to read such a record without
feeling that the quarrels Of Old Europe. ~
which we make 80 much, are H0t yathof
petty aflair5, or without dOubt.nW whether
after all Prince Biamarck sdoes very