The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1885-08-21
THE WHITE NAN.
His Increase in the World Fest Be-
oomming the Master Of the World

III poItdiiG fdCtS III the IlSlOIt oI the
world is the enormous recent increase
of the number of white men in it. Il
is barely two centuries (1683) since
those races, though even then the
most energetic Of mankind, formed
but a small fraction in the total Of hu-
manity- probably ten per cent. Of the
whole-and were by 70 means certain
that they could defend themselves
against the remainder. The stream
of Asiatic conquest mad not stopped,
for the Turks were al the gates of VI
emma; ar African fleet was dominant
in the Mediterranean Asia knew
nothing of the whites except in one
or twa se:d2meEts on the coast fringe
Of l. Airica belonged exclusively
TO Aires re, and though the whites
had mas. 5outh Ameuca, where
read in the lit subsequent history
their oonqacsts were Incredibly rapid;
most parl Of North America stlll felt
Indian wars 10 be terrible and even
formidable events
Even a hundred years later the
white people, though under the opera
ton OF the still Unexplained law which
at one time fosters and at another
time restricts the growth Of a people,
were increasing slowly, and were still
only hundred and fifty millions. or
probably a seventh Of the population
Of the globe. They had, indeed, an
nexed the two a mericas and Northern
Asia, thus gu ntupling the area OF
their estate upon the planet and prob
ably multiplying their fixed wealth
by at least twonty foId-a country al
ways being the largest item in the
wealth Of any. race or nation-but they
had only begun to settle ia the West
ern continent; they had but commeRc
ed to conquer in Southern Asia; they
had visited but not occupied Austria
liza and in Eastern Europe and West
ern Asia they were only slaves to an
Asiatic horde. The century, how :
ever, ending 1854 has been marked
by an Advance 50 rapid and unbroken
as to be scarcely credible, and TO pre-
sent one of the most startling facts in
history. The white races in aud out
of Europe. under the influence of some
still mysterious call upon their ener-
yies, have multiplied nearly three
fold and are to-day, IS Mr.. Il. Gilien
has shown in his recent Idrass to the
Statistical Society, 10000, 600, As
there is no evidence of any corresDon-
ding increase in the dark races, and
as, indeed, such increase has been,
outside India, near'y impossible, the
white men are now, by the best cal
culutions, one-third Of the population
Of TIE world, instead Of being as they
were only two centuries ago, a little
more than ten per cent. They have,
moreover, If anything, increased in
physical atrength, and have so de-
veloped IN brain and consequent pow
er Of organization that it may ba
doubted if the whole remainder Of
mankind, even if ali were reduced to
equal weapons, could seriously injure
the --hitc third, which, again It it
chose % act together and employ
without pity the weapons its intelli-
geace a4s enabled it to construct,
could n few years re,iuce tie re-
mainder ot the world to an uniuhabIt-
ed desert
They have lately taken to canqner-
ering Africa, aud arc entering It at a
hundred points a once, seizing almost
silently, certainly without serious ef
fort, huge ices like French Africa,
South Africa, Madagascar, the vast
valley Of the Niger, and .he still more
extensive region drained by the 81 :
tenn Of rivers called the Congo Nol
is there much reason to hSlieye that
/ the process viii coon he checked, fol
the white men are urged iorward by
an irresistible spur over wEieh they
have no control. The increase Of fhc
yellow race. which once must nave
been incredibly fast. has stopped anC
/ thst Of the dark race of India, whici
for a century has been amszing, j.
icing checked by recurrout fanines
but that Of The white people goes OF
50 fast that the transport Of hug
army every year across the Atlanti,
makes no impression on their mum
bers. and at the presout rate Of in
crease they will in 1884 be thousan,
millions, or much more than halt .
then existing mankind. The Chimes
I have recently SHOWN some resisting
power; the English nave apgarlutl.