The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-08
ENcL1sH-sPEAK1Ne RACES.
An Interesting Article by the Great
Statesman Gladstone.

An Interesting Article by the Great
Statesman Gladstone.
Hon. W. E. Gladstone has written for
the Youths Companion very interesting
article on 1.-THE Future of the English
Speaking Races Starting with the as
sumption that 'it is prominently the
Anglo-Saxon race for which the future
promises in many things to rival or out
strip the past" the distinguished writer
saws: "[f the world and the human race
are governed by design, then there are
abundant marks that this our time, and the
times consecutive upon it. have been and
are allotted to special and large unfold
ing of that design, with all the powers and
interests, the duty and responsibilities it
involves. OF these marks l will pointedly
mention only four, and will mention them
within the compass of lines scarcely more
numerous
''First, the enormous increase of material
mower. available for all the exterior uses of
life, so that it has long since been computed
that in Great Britain alone, the force of
machinery was equal las it must now be
more than equal to the corporal power of
the whole human race.
"Secondly, the augmented means and ac-
celerated speed Of communication in its va
rious forms.
Thirdly, the vast increase, and more
solid basis, of the knowledge OF nature in
almost every province of her mighty realm
"Fourthly, that enlargement of the times
of peace and contraction of the times of
war, throughout the civilized world, which
has during the present century appeared,
notwithstanding scme very sinister accom-
nani1nents to be gradually hardening into
normal fact of the modern life and greatly
TO enlarge the industrial capacity and career
of man."
After speaking of the close ties between
Great Britain and America 1T is estimated
that the habitaul speakers of English CEN
fury ago were $4,000, 900, and that now the
English speakers are not less than from 100,-
100000 los, 100000, so that the past 100
years has supplied the multiple of seven,
which might perhaps be placed higher, and
the application of this would give for the
year 1900 the enormous figure of $40, 600, 900
of English-speaking persons. The greatly
advanced proportion of the increase of the
United States is referred to. and the appli-
cation of this will bring the population to
the date named up to at least $50, 000,0 900.
The first proposition thus advanced is that
the numbers of the English-speaking races
will, at the period in question be enor-
mously in excess of those associated with any
other European or old world language, and
perhaps very considerably in excess of them
all when put together.
His second proposition is that under the
conditions of modern communication this
vast increase of the English-speaking races
will draw them more closely together and
will evolve and consolidate throughout
the mass stronger sense of moral oneness;
and his third, that great influence and great
duties cannot but accrue to the English
speaking races, united by so many ties, and
in such preponderating masses toward the
rest of the civilized world. The article con-
cludes as follows:
- en- aware that. on the principles
have sketched, the same issues which give
a prominence to English-speakers in the
world may also give prominence among
English-speakers to Americans. l do not
assume that all these changes will be I'M
mixedly for good.
what desire is that we should meet
them with prepared mind; should be
ready, we The English speakers among our
selves, to waive sectional for the sake of
general advantage; that we should try to
expel or neutralize detected or suspected
mischiefs, to extract from each social force
the maximum of good which it is capable of
yielding. Most of all, that we should never
allow the buoyant experiences of the new
state to abate our reverence for the elder
world, and tho great traditions of mankind :;
and that we should bear in mind how every
new channel opened to our influence, every
accession made to our social force every
shifting to our advantage in the distribu-
ton of the momenta of human action, is a
new trust for which we must give account,
a new summons to us that we should live a
braced and watchfnl, not a remiss and slug
glsh life, a new element of that universal
priesthood in which every man who does his
duty day by day ever offers for himself and
for others gifts to the most-high God"