The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-08-29
SOME FIGURES.
Calculations Showing That the World Is,
the Heritage of the Caucasian.


the Heritage of the Caucasian.
Among the little-notced but most
important facts in the history of the
world is the enormous recent increase
of the number of white men in it. 1t
is barely two centuries 0683) since
those races, though even then the most
energetic of mankind, formed but
small fraction in the total of humanity
probably ten per cent. of the whole
and were by no means certain that they
could defend themselves against the re-
mainder. The white races in and out
Of Europe, under the influence of some
still mysterious call upon their energies,
have multiplied nearly threefold, and
are to-day, as Mr.. r. Gif1en has shown
in his recent address to the Statistical
Society, APO. 600, 900. As there is no
evidence of any corresponding increase
i'll 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
beng, as they were only two centuries
ago, little more than ten per cent.
They have, moreover, if ANYTHING,
increased in physical strength and have
so developed in brain and consequent
power of organization, that it may be
doubted if the whole remainder of man
KIND, even if all were reduced to equal
weapons, could seriously iniure the
white third, which again, if it chose to-
act together and employ without pity
the weapons its intelligence has enabled
il to construct, could in a few years re-.
duce the remainder of the world to an
uninhabited desert. They have lately
taken TO conquering Africa, and arc.
entering at hundred points at once;
Selling almost sileNtly, certainly with
out 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 believe that the
process will soon be checked. for the
white men are urged forward by an ir-
rcs'stibIc spur over which they have no
control. The increase of the yellow
race, which must once have been so in
credibly fast, has stopped, and that of
the dark races of India, which for a
century has been amazing, is being
checked by recurrent famines; but that
of the white people goes on 50 fast that
the transport of huge army every year
across the Atlantic makes no impress
sion 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 man.
kind.
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 well to.
think over patiently, and. if they can,
without hatred in their hearts They
have no right to anger with the visible
will of God. If Mr.. Citizens figures are
correct-and, subject to some arrest of
existing law they must be as correct as
if they were merely unapplied calcula--
tlonS-therc IS but enc race on earth
with whom it behooves the Teuton. in
all his branches, to keep friends. This.
supremacy of the white man will in the
end-and, recOllect, children may be
born to-day who will see the end, and
then be younger than Sir Moses Monte
tOre-be the joint supremacy of the
TeutOn and Slav. In 1884, when the
world contains 1000, 100000 of white
faces, GOO, 900, 600 of these will be En-
glsh and Germans, and SOC. 600, 900
will be Slav. There will practically be
no other white races, the French not
increasing, the Spaniards increas-
ing slowly -- if, indeed, as in
Mexico, they do not rather suffer alb
Sorption in dark people. If the TeutOn
aud the Slay can keep friends, the world
is theirs: and if not, there will be the
most terrible struggle recorded in his
tory since the white barbarians fought
the white Romans and their darker
allies. We are not sure that an agree
ment is possible until great fight has,
taken place. for Slav and Tcuton seem
unwilling to comprehend each other,
though there is not between them the
intcrnecinc 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 man
kind, he must pitch himself on some
body, be it on Turkey, on England or
on China; but the means of avoidance
are worth the study and patience of
years - LORdOH Spectators.