The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1885-07-31
THE WHITE MAN.
uJSINCREASEINT THE WORLD
He Is Fast Becoming the Master
oft he GIObe-The Astounding
Change Wrought In Two
Centuries.

The London Spectator in a recent
issue says: Among the little no.
ticed but most important facts Ill
the history of the world is the
enormous recent increase III the
number of white men IN it. 1t Is
barely two centuries 16S3l since
those races, though even then, the
most energetic Of mankind, formed
but q small fraction i'll the total OF
humanity-probably ten per cent.
of the whole-and were by no
means certain that they could de-
femd themselves against the re.
mainder. The stream of ASlatlc
conquest had not stopped for the
Turks were at the gates of Vienna !;
an African fleet was dominant in
the Mediterranean Asia knew
nothing of the whites except III
one or two tolerated settlements on
the coast fringe of In'iia; Africa
belonged exclusively to Africans,
and though the whites had master
ed South America, where, read III
the light of subsequent history
their cOnquests were Incredibly
RAPID, most part of North Americi
still felt Indian wars TO be terrible
and even formidable events. Ever
- hundred years later the white
peOple, though under the operation
of the still unexplained law which
at one time fosters and at another
time restricts the growth OF peO
pie, were increasing slowly, and
we're still only a hundred aud fifty
millions, or probably a seventh Of
the population of the globe. They
had, indeed, annexed the two
AMERICAS and Northern Asia, thus
0nintupling the area of their estate
upon the planet, and ptObably mul
tiplying their fixed wealth by ai
least twenty-fold-a country being
always tho largest item in tht
wealth of any race or nation -bHl
they had only begun to settle IL
the Western continent; they had
but commenced to conqueTin South
ern Asia they had visited, but moi
occupied, Australia, and ia Eastern
Europe and Western Asia they
we're only slaves to an Asiatl'
horde. The century, however, end
ing 1884 has been marked by al
advance so rapid and SO unbrOkei
as to be scarcely credible and Il
present one of the most startliu:
facts IN history. Tie white race
| in and out of Europe, under the in
fluence of some still mysterious cal
upon their energies, have multi
piled nearly three-fold, and are to
day, as Mr.. II. Giffen has shown II
his recent address to the Statistica
Society, 100000, 900. AS there
no evidence of any corresponding
increase in the dark races, and as
indeed, such increase has been, out
| side India, nearly impossible, th
white men are now, by the best ca
culations, one-third of the entir
population of the world, instead 9
| being, as they we're only two cent?
ries ago, a little more than 10 pc
cent. They have, moreover, If any
thing, increased in physics
strength, and have so developed i
brain, and consequent power {
organization, that 1t may be doub
ed the whole remainder OF mai
kind, even if all were reduced
equal weapons, could seriously il
lure the white third, which, again
| it chose to act together and emplo
without pity the weapons its INTEL
geuce has enabled it to censtruc
could in a few years reduce the n
mainder of the world to an uDiI
habited desert. Except in the SOut
Pacific, where, by one means or al
other, they kill out tue darker met
the white races show no tendenc
of that kind-though, we take !
in the dawn of history they @
terminated pretty freely, especial
in India-hut they do show
strong disposition to take possesio
Of the whole earth and govern it 4
they please. The Chinese are Il
ONLY great race remaining whic
can be said to be truly i0dependei
and free from the predomina
ting Influences, more or less direc
ly exercised, OF the energetic Will
men. who pour IN increasing stream
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