Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-11-25
HAIL THE COMING RACE.
To THE WESTERN WORLD THE WAVE
OF PEOPLES TAKES IT'S WAY.

Justification for the Boast That English
Speaking People. win Rule the World
in the Twenty-fst Century-caleuia-
tion. on Popaistisn's Increases.
Il was recently co1sended In The Contesn-
Porary Review that, II the Papacy were wise,
the next pope would think in English We
are constantly reminded by the same writer
that the center OF gravity OF our planet has
shifted, and that the Mediterranean l. fast
becoming an idle inland sea locked in de-
caying continent. IL has played its part in
the past Of humanity. but the part Is over
and done TIE "a, Of empire Is again fol-
lowing the sun. IL has always done, and b
once more drifting into the west
We are constantly told that Europe Is
dwiniling and becOming % little account,
aud that the mastery q the world viii rect
with the peoples from whose lips fall the
large music Of our English spe-ch. The Old
World quarrel>, the frontier feuds OF Europ4
the strife and rivalries u Teuton and Gaul.
vii endure for yet little longer, but they
are always % fading Consequence for the
world. The French and the German armies
may watch one another across tue Rhine
AMI the CosSack msy still dream Of watering
his hor~e b-n-ath the shallow OF st Sophia
but thee poor ambitions and hztreis will
mean a. little for the future u mankind as
did the quarrels 81 the greens aud the biues
In the dying DAYS Of the lower empire The
map Of Europe NAV be changed and re-
changed, and It's peoples NAV conquer and be
conquered, bat they and the very tongues
they speak shall fail and fade entirely, until
French and Slav AMI German, except for
their literatures, shall become forgotten dia-
lects like Welsh or Irish, the picturesque sur
vivals Of an Oh World tribalisn.
RECENT INCREASES.
Al the present hour the peoples Of the
United Kingdom aud the United States rep
resent about one-ffteenth Of humanity, and
govern one-third of the planet and one-fourth
Of its inhabitants In the beginning OF the
Eighteenth century this race numbered less
than 6,ooO0oO souls; at the beginning Of the
Nineteenth century that they increased TO
-, 90; at the present time they are about
lo,oo.U0 In the space Of eighty years the
English Speaking peoples multiplied five
times over, and 1t is confidently reckoned that
within another hundred years they will have
outnumbered all the other civilized peoples
put together NJ Hummer, the chief Of the
Federal bureau Of statistics in Switzerland.
has reckoned that the total population OF
Europe in the year 600 viii be 5SSO 600. 600.
while DR.. Strong, OF New York, reckons that
in 1880 the population Of Europe will Be
S4 ,ooOuO. No complete statistics showing
the average increase all over Europe are
available for the early decades Of the century,
but the average increase Of the continent for
the ten years from 1870 TO lSSO was G 81
II, however, we were % apply the same
test 70 the English peoples and suppose them
20 multiply for another hundred years as they
did from $50 TO 1850 they would reach the
enormous total Of ! .343 600 600 II would be
unreasonable, hC~ever, 10 suppose that the
ratio Of increase viii continue 80 long. DR..
Strong bases his calculations in this way; In
Great Britain the ratio Of increase from $40
70 1870 was 2.+s per cent, during the next
ten years it was 5 ~. the next ten years il
was $50, and from 1870 to lSSO IL was 10 s.
per cent So We see the ratio Of increase
steadily rising for forty years, and there Is no
apparent reason why 1t should not continue
70 rise But as he j. dealing with 80 long a
period Of time as a hundred years Dr. Strong
prefers to suppose that the average ratio Of
increase for the century will be only one-half
what il has heen during the last decade, and
soputs the probable population Of Great Brit
attn in 1890 al s., 10000
On the other hand the Swiss statistician
fxes it for 1000 at l42,OoOOOO Accepting.
however, the American estimate, let Us con
slider the other branches Of the English
speaking people. The Australian rate OF in
crease for the ten years from $50 to IssO was
50 20 per cent that % South Africa, Is p
But suppose that Canada, Australia and
south Africa double their population once
every twenty-five years-the United States
- 81
population q the British colonies in 1850
Will lie ls6DO.uJO For the United States
very complete and satisfactory statistics are
available from the beginning Of the century
The iati0 Of increase vsried during the dec
AIDES from 100 10 1SSO from 80 to 80 per
cent
ROOM N TIE UNITED STATES
With these figures before him, DR.. Strong
NJ Hummer confines bis investigation 10 Eu-
rope-prOpoSes TO leave out Of account all
future immigration, and 10 coufine himself
70 the increase Of births over deaths, leaving
Immigration as a set of against any possible
cheek upon growth. Calculated upon this
strictly moderate basis, the population Of the
United States stands for 1880 at 900. 900
The total AngiO-SaIon population Of the
world would thea be az, OOO, OUO, a. COMPARED
with 534 OOO 90 Of Continental Europe. And
il must he remembered that these figures
show the largest probable population Of Eu-
rope and the smallest probable numbers Of
the English speaking race.
In face Of these tremendous figures il Is
well TO lie reminded that If the whole Of the
English speaking population Of the world
multiplied as they are likely TO be a. the end
q another century-wers 70 be planted down
In the territory Of the United States, and
then doubled, the people would still not bs 50
thick upon the ground as they sre today in
Belgium
While in France the population Is IsO to
the square mile, IN Germany 2l6, in England
and Wales 42s, ia Belgium isl, Ia the United
States, exclusive Of Alaska, the population u
only 10 per square mile. Indeed, the 50, OOO..
OcO Of the United States in 1850 might be put
into Texas, and yet the population would not
10 a. dsn=o a. in Germany. Put the whole
present. Population Of the United States into
Dakota, and the people would he les crowd
Cd than today ia England and Wales. Our
share Of the earths surface, therefore seems
an ample inheritance even for the over
whelming increase " the future IL 10 Of
more immediate consequence to inquire
whether this people, scattered over 80 many
cIimes and - many lands, but bound by
common speech and common memories aud
common laws, viii remain IN any real sense
a homogeneous race. The whole tendency Of
civilization seems 70 point 70 an answer in the
affirmative 90 London Tablet