The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-09-30
MARCH oF nd. White NAN.
The Astounding Change wrought in Two
centurIs.-A Possible copalo.
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The Astounding Change Wrought In Two
CenturIe.-A Possible Coniilo.
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Among the little noticed but most i'm.
portant facts in the history OF the word
d tie enormous recent increase in mum.
Ter o. white men in 1t. 1t Is barely two
centuries (lGSJj since those races,
though even thin the most energetic OF
mankind, formed bnt q snail fraction
10 the total OF humanity-rrob.
ably % per cent. OF the whole
and were BY no means certain that they
could defend themselves against the 70.
tnainder. The stream Of ASiatic ton.
.iuest had never stopped, for the Turks
were at the gates Of Jenna; an African
feet was dominant in the nediter.
ranaan Asia knew nothing Of the
whites except in one or two tolerated
settlements on the coast fringe Of India;
Africa belonged exclusively to Africans
and though tho whites had ma tered
sonth America, VIII re, read in the light
Of subsequent history, their conqucsts
were incredibly rapid, most part Of
orth America still felt Indian wars To
be terrible and even formidable events.
wen l0O years later the white people,
though under the operation OF tho still
unexplained law which at ono time fOs.
lers and another time restricts the
growth Of q people, were in retsing
slowly and were still only 10, NOa,U 400,
or pro ably a seventh of tho population
Of the globe. They had, indeed IN.
n0Xcd the two Americas and northern
Asia, thus quintupling tho area Of their
estate upon the planet and probably
multiplying their liked wealth by at
east twenty fold--a country 6oing
always the largest item IN the wealth Of
any race or nation but they had only
begun to settle in tn western continent
they had but commenced to conquer in
southern Asia; they had visited, but
not occupied Australia, and in eastern
uropc and western Asia they we're
only slaves 10 an AslatiU horde.
Tho century, however, ending 1884
has been marked byRn alliance so rapid
and SO unbrokon us 10 10 scarcely credi.
lie, and 10 present one Of tho most
startling facts in history. The white
race in and out OF Europe, under the
influence Of some still mysterious call
upon thOir energies, have multiplied
nearly threshold, and are to-day, as
NJ. II. Gi en- has shown in his recent
address TO the Statistical society, 49,
l0O,0 OO. As there Is no evidence Of
any corresponding increase in the dark
races, and as, indeed, such increase has
lcen, outside India, nearly impossible,
tho white men are now, BY the hest cal.
culations, one.third Of the entire popu.
laton of tho world. instead OF being,
rs they were only two centuries ago; q
little more than 10 per cent.
They have, moreover, II anything, In.
creased in physical strength, and have
so developed in brain, and consequent
power o organization, that II may DO
doubted II the whole remainder OF man.
kind, even if all were re iueel to 0 ,uill
weapons, could seriously In ure the
white third, which again, II II chose to
act together and employ without pity
the weapons its intelligence has enabled
t TO construct, could in a few years 70.
duce the remainder Of the world TO an
uninhabited desert.