The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1885-12-05

on which Constantinople stands; who oc-
cupy two-thirds of North America, and
dominate over North and South America
down to Patagonia; who have taken pos
session of Australia and New Zealand, and
most of the larger isles of the South Pa
ciGc; 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 have lately taken to
conquering Africa, and are entering it at
hundred points at once; seizing, almost
silently, certainly without serious effort,
huge slices like French Africa, South
Africa, Madagascar, the vast valley of the
Niger, and the still more extensive region
drained by the system of rivers called the
Congo. Nor is there much reason to be-
lieve that the process 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 once have been so incredibly
fast, has stopped, and that of the dark
races of India, which for a century has
been amazing, is being checked by recur-
rent famines; but that of the white peoples
goes on so fast that the transport of huge
army every year across the Atlantic makes
no impression in their numbers, and at
their present rate of increase they will in
1884 be thousand millions, or much more
than half of then existing mankind. The
Chinese have recently shown some resisting
power; the English have apparently-it
may prove only apparently ly-halted, indie
cisive, in their march up the valley of the
Nile; but the general movement sweeps
ever forward, and within the century it
seems more than probablethat every corner
of the earth will be ruled by white men,
and that the dudar Idpeti genus, as Horace
perceived them to be, will be the only in
dependent race within the planet, which
their tireless enterprise will then have rem
dered quite visible and very small. Not
even internal war arrests the rush, still less
human volition. Because Germans and
Frenchmen fought, France is in Tonquin,
Tunis, and Madagascar and in spite Of Mr..
Gladstone, Englishmen are reaching the
Zambesi, are encamped in Egypt, have
gained full footing in Borneo, are legally
reigning on the Niger, and are looking with
greedy eyes on all the remaining lands of
the South Pacific. 1t is difficult to read
such a record without feeling that the
quarrels of old Europe, of which we make
so much, are rather petty affairs, or with
out doubling whether after all Prince Bis
marck does very greatly affect the fortunes
of the human race. The ultimate Law
giver, who scatters tie nations, and who
has taken off the ban of sterility from the
Aryan to infict it on the Turanian, seems
to be stronger than he.
The world is the heritage of the white
man,-that is the first lesson of Mr.. Citizens
figures; but there is another, also, which
Englishmen will do we'll to think over pa
tiently, and, if they can, without hatred in
their hearts. They have no right to anger
with the visible will of God If Mr.. Grif-
fen's figures are correct-and, subject to
some arrest of existing law, they must be
as correct as if they were merely unapplied
calculations there is but one race on earth
with whom it behoves the Teuton in all his
branches to keep friends. This supremacy
of the white man will in the end-and,
reccollect, children may be born to-day
who will see the end, and then be younger
than Sir Moses Montefore-be the joint
supremacy of the Teuton and the Slave.
In 1884, when the world contains thou
sand millions of white faces, six hundred
millions of these will be English and Ger
mans, ane three hundred millions will be
Sav. There will practically be no other
white races, the French not increasing, the
Spaniards increasing slowl ly-if, indeed, as
in Mexico, they do not rather suffer abb
sorption into dark people; the Scandina-
vian having stopped absolutely and the
Irishman, true to his destiny, helping only
to swell the power of the race he processes
to detest. If the Teuton and the Slav can
keep friends, the world is theirs; and if
not, there will be the most terrible strug
gle recorded in history since the white
barbarians fought the white Romans and
their darker allies. We are not sure that
an agreement is possible until great fight
has taken place. for Slav and Teuton seem
unwilling to comprehend each other, though
there is not between them the internecine
hatred sometimes observed in history but
if their statesmen could arrange terms on
which the conflict could be permanently
avoided, huge mass of misery might be
saved to our immediate descendants. To
avoid the quarrel will be difficult, for the
Slav is just now strangled and to reach
the open water and so take his natural
part in the greater movement of mankind,
he must pitch himself on somebody, be it
on Turkey, or England, or China; but the
means of avoidance are worth the study
and patience of years. Mankind is not
very likely to be happy when all is done,
for in all this movement is no cure for sin,
or pain, or poverty; anxiety increases as
fast as intelliffence, and mpathy-which
means suffering-fast than strength;
but one grand condition of even moderate
well-being is that Slav and Teuton should
learn how to live together in peace. If
not, the Teuton may some day-in less
than a century-fnd that every third
white man is a foe, and that the third man
has the power of ranging behind him the
darker races of mankind. The Teuton has
the art of dominance; but the Slav has
gained strong hold wherever he has ruled,
and can do at least one thing we cannot
he can conquer the Turanian without rous-
ing his unquenchable hate. Now, the
Turanian is the only race not white which
should in 1884 be strong.
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