Smyrna times., 1885-08-26
The March Of The White Man.

The London Spectator under this title
gave the other day a startling state
ment of the enormous increase of white
men in the world during the last two
centuries, auguring from it the ultimate
inevitable subjectiOn an extinction of |
the dark races. 1t assumed that Gin |
1888 the white men formed but small |
fraction of the worlds population
about one-tenth," and that now they
number, according to Griffen, 100000
600, or one-third of the whole. At this
rate of progress it reckOns the white
race will number a century from now
over 1 1,OOO,OOOOOO. The process of ex-
termination or smothering of the dark
races by this fOOdtide of white blood
is foretOld by the Spectator from the
advance of France and Russia into
Asia, of England into Egypt, the Fam
besi region and BorneO, and Germany
into Africa. In 1885, it prOphesies,
when the world contains 1,OOO,0OO,O0O
white men, 6OO,OOO,OOO will be English
and German, and 3OO,OOO,OOO Slav.
The Scandinavians, French and Span
iards will have become extinct. 'If
the Teuton and Slav can keep friends
the world is theirs" Otherwise, we
are led to infer, the domination will re-
main with England.
This pretty bit of statistical glOrifca-
tion is put together quite too hastily to
hold water In the first place, there
are actually no facts upon which to
base coniectures. Nobody on earth
knows, or ever knew, what the pOpula-
ton of India, China, Africa or any 9th
er clark country" was in 1885; even
as to their population to-day it is all
guesswork. Yet, the whole argument
of the Spectator is based on this sup
posed knowledge, as it presupposes
that the dark races number as many
souls two centuries ago as they do now.
The probability is that they increase
by the century las we know them to
do by the year, in a steady ratio, as do
the whites, and that the proportions re-
main in effect the same. Dark races
are always more prolific than the white.
The only practical scientific reason for
decrease in numbers is their ignorance
of sanitary laws, medical science and
the restraints of civilization. But as
the occupant of their present share OF
the earth's territory by civilized races
would necessarily remove these causes
of disease and death, such occupation
would preserve rather than destroy
them, according to the prOgnOsticatiOns
of the Spectator. If, indeed, England
introduces opium into her new colonies
as she has done into India and China
we have one powerful factor in the dis
integration, ruin and destruction of the
: colored man.
The facts are unfortunately agains
the argument of the sanguine English
man. On this continent both the In
dians and negroes are increasing more
rapidly than the white race (by birth)
: The old theory that the inferior ract
must give way when brought face t.
face with the white, is true only as ap
piled to its social or political status
In mere numbers it wins the race. l
is difficult to see on what ground tn
Englishman can look forward to the in
crease of his posterity and the blOttinl
> out of the French, scandinavian and al
lesser races.
- The Englishman at home and in hi
L colonies now Outnumberers the Gau
L only by half dozen millions, for tn
u American, though he call himsel
" English, is really German, French an
. Scandinavian, as we'll
u Whatever may be the intellectual Q
= moral dominance of the Englishman i
&c future, it is undeniable that neither hi
% temperance, cheerfulness nor domesti
. habits justify the prediction that h
I will be the most lOng-lived and prOlili
y of the children of men.-PhiIadelphi
- Press.