Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1885-08-15
THE WHITE MAN.
His increase. In the Torld--Fast Becoming
the Master Of the World.
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" world Is the enormous recent increase
d OF the number OF white men in it. II
o Is barely two centuries (16S3) since
those races, though even then the
most energetic OF mankind, formed
C out small fraction in the total OF hu-
: manlty-p probably ten percent of the
a whole-and were by nU means certain
It that they could defend themselves
d against the remainder. The stream of
t Aslatic conquest had not stopped, for
the Turks were Mt the gates OF Vienna;
m African heet was dominant in the
i Mediterranean; Asia knew nothing of
; the whites except in one or two settle
: ments on the coast fringe Of India;
s Africa belonged exclusively TO Afri-
: cans, and though the whites had mas
. tered South America, where, read in
: the light of subsequent history, their
conquests were incredibly rapid; most
part of North America still felt Indian
wars to be terrible and even formi,la-
! ble 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 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 Americas and Northern
Asia, thus quintupling the area of
their estate upon the planet, and prob
ably multiplying their fixed wealth by
at least twenty fold-a country always
being the largest item in the wealth of
any race or nation--but they had only
begun to settle in the Western conti-
nent; they had but commenced TO
conquer in Southern Asia; they had
visited but not occupied Australia, and
} IN Eastern Europe and Western Asia.
they were only slaves to an Asatic
horde. The century, however, ending
1884 has been marked by an advance
so rapid and SO unbroken as to be
scarcely credible, and to present one
OF the most startling facts in history.
The white races in and out OF Europe,
under the influence of some still mys-
terious call upon their energies, have
multiplied nearly three fold, and are
to day, as Mr.. r. Gifler has shown in
his recent address to the Statistical So
ciety, 420O00000. As there is no evil
dence of amy corresponding increase
in the dark races. and as, indeed, such
increase has been, outside India, near
ly impossible, the wnlte men are now,
by the best calculations, one-third of
the entire population OF the world, in
stead OF being, rs they were only two
centuries ago, a little more than ten
per cent. They have, moreover, il any
thing, increased in physical strength,
and have so developed in brain and
consequent power OF organization that
1t may be doubted if the whole remain |
der OF mankind, even if all we're re-
| duced to equal weapons, could serious
! ly injure the white third, which, again |
| il it chose to act together and employ |
without pity the weapons its intel |
Egence has enabled it to construct,
could in few years reduce the re-
mainder OF the world to an uninhabit- |
! ed desert.
They have lately taken to conquer
ing Africa, and are entering it at a
hundred points at once, seizing almost
silently, certainly without serious ef.
fort, huge slices like French Africa,
South Africa Madagascar, the vast val
ley of the Niger, and the still more
extensive region drained by the sys-
tenn 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 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 race of India,
which for century has been amaz-
ing, is being checked By recurrent
famines; but that Of the white people
goes on SO fast that the transport of
huge army every year across the At
lantic makes no impression on their
numbers, and at the present rate Of
increase they will in 1884 be II thous-
and millions, or much moro than half
Of then existing mankind. The Chi
nese have recently shown some resist
ing power; the English have apparent
ly-it may prove ouly apparently
halted, indecisive. in their march up
the valley OF the Nile; but the general
movement sweeps ever forward, and
within the centuryitseems moro than
probable that every corner OF the earth |
will be ruled by white men, and that
the "audax Iapeti genus" as Horace
perceived them to be, will be the only
independent race within the planet
which their tireless enterprise will
then have rendered quite visi BILE and |
very small. Not even internal war ar
rests the rush, still less human voli-
tion.
Because Germans and Frenchmen
fought, France is in Tonquin, Tunis !
and Madagascar, and in spite of Mr..
Gladstone, Englisiimen are reaching
Zambezi, are encamped in Egypt, have
gained full footing in Borneo, are le- G
gally reigning on the Niger, and are y
looking with greedy eyes on all the I
remaining lands of the South Pacific.
1t is difficult to read such record
without feeling that the quarrels of i
old Europe, of which we make so 4
much, are not rather petty affairs, or /
without doubling whether after all
Bismarck does very greatly affect the
fortunes Of the human race The ulti-
mate law giver, who, .scatters the ma
tions and who has taken off the ban 4
of sterility from the Aryan to inflict c
on the Turanian seems TO be much q
stronger than he. v
THE WHITE MANS HERITAGE.
This world is the heritage of the q
white man-that is the first lesson OF I
Mr.. Citizens figures; but there is am d
other also, which Englishmen will do n
well to think over patiently and, if u
they can, without hatred in their {,
hearts. They have no right to argue n
with the visible will of God, II Mr..
Citizens figures are correct-and, sub
ject to some arrest o: existing law,
they must be as correct as if they were
merely unapplied calculations-there
is but one race on earth with whom il a
behooves the Teuton in all his branch Il
es to keep friends. This supremacy n
Of the white man will in the end u
and, recolDect, children may be born a
to-day who will see the end, and then e
be younger than Sir Moses Monteiiore Il
he the joint supremacy of the leu 4
ton and the Slav. In 1884 when the p
world contains 1000,000O00 white fa- 1
ces, G00000,000 OF these will be Eng ii
lish and Germans and 300000OO0 will &
be Slav. There will practically be no "
other white races, The French arc not Il
the Spaniards increasing Al
indeed, as in Mexico, they b
do not rather suffer absorption into n
dark people; the Scandinavian having il
stopped absolutely; and the Irishman, b