Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-19
ENGLISH SPEAKING RACES.

Mir Gladstone contributes very interest ing article to the Youths Companion in which he prophecies that the English speaking races will within century prac- tically have the control of the inhabited globe. It is estimated that the present number of English speakers is 1O3, 900, ,OOO, which is an advance of 5,OOO,OO beyond what it was a century ago, which author izes the expectat on that the number will reach 700, ,OO0, ,000 hundred years hence, or nearly twice the present population of China. This is MT Gladstone's estimate of increase and is based upon the produc- tiveness of the English speaking races in the past The increase is put still higher by other writes. It is assumed by those whose estimates eyceed Mr Gladstone's that the population of the United States will be 800, ,000, 900 before anothet century has dropped into the ocean of butied years.
 The estimates of increase made by MT Gladstone and others lead 70 the ccnolrsion which is pretty generally accepted-that those whose vernacular is English will be enormously in excess of all others Mir Gladstone from this reads lesson to the United States and Great Britain which will be the great centers and radiating points for those who speak English as their mother tongue. The natural afiinities that must necessarily arise between those whose language is common, ''evolving through the mass a stronger sense of moral one ness," give hope to MT Gladstone in bis forecast of the future. The United States is too far away from Europe to effect the political situation. The period for rapid territorial conquests is rapidly drawing to a close. Government of both country and city, and government of the state also, is more highly organized than it was century ago, and the constant tendency is to give the people larger liberties and greater social and industrial chance, all of which augurs we'll for peace and general prosperity. NIT Gladstone is hopeful, too, in his forecast of political supremacy. He knows of no reason why the uprising rations at the ends of the earth which are now dependencies of the bTlllSu CIOWu SuOulu 11OC COAtIIluS u ON II its supremacy a century hence but even if in some instances they should d: fit asunder, there remains as indtstl lctible ties the community of language and civilization and religion, 'wnich are powerful beyond estimation in promoting substantial kinship beyond seas" The close ties tf social and com mercial interchange, of sy npathies of religion and literature that have existed for upwards of century between England and America seem destined to survive all interruptions, and 'there are the strong st reasons for thinking that the freedom ot intercourse between the two countries is typical of what must always exist between all English speaking peoples"
 MT Gladstones horoscope is not the dream of a visionary or impracticable the orist, but is cast on the lines of the past and a close study therefrom of the possi bilities of the future. The wonderful future that looms up for the English speaking races in their dominance of the social anc political forces of the universe moves NJ Gladstone to give hint of the duties tha
 will devolve upon them, and he conclude. his article with the hope that the Englisl speaking nations may ''waive sectional fol general advantages, aud "eAtract iron each social force the maximum good whi, it is capable of yielding"
 If the confusion of tongues that followed
 the building of Babel ever merges into
 community of language the dominance O the English which Mir Gladstone forecast suggests the universal language that will b. spoken.