Wichita eagle., 1889-11-29
HAIL THE COMING RACE.
TO THE WESTERN WORLD THE WAVE
OF PEOPLES TAKES ITS WAY.

TO THE WESTERN WORLD THE WAvl
| OF PEOPLES TAKES ITS WAY.
justification for the Boast That Eng1isl
Speaking Peoples VIII Rule the Worl
in the Twenty-ast Century-Calcula
tions on Populations Increases.
1t was recently commended In The Contem
porary Review that, if the papacy were wise
the next pope would think in English. w
are constantly reminded by the same write
that the center of gravity of our planet ha
shifted, and that the Mediterranean is fas
becoming an idle inland sea locked In a de
caying continent. 1t has played its part b
the past Of humanity, but the part is owe
| and done. The seat Of empire is again fol
lowing the sun, as 1t has always done, and
once more drifting into the west.
We arc constantly told that Europe
dwindling and becoming Of little account
and that the mastery Of the world viii res
with the peoples from whose lips fall tn
large music Of our English speech. The o..
World quarrels, the frontier feuds of Europe
the strife and rivalries Of Tsuton and Gaul
will endure for yet little longer, but they
are always of fading consequence for tn.
world The French and the German armie
may watch one another across the Rhine
and the Coesack may still dream of watering
his horse beneath the shadow Of St. Sophia
but these poor ambitions and hatreds vii
mean a. little for the future of mankind q.
did the quarrels Of the greens and the blue.
In the dying days Of the lower empire. Tht
map Of Europe may be changed and re
changed, and its peoples may conquer and bt
conquered, but they and the very tongue.
they speak shall fail and fade entirely, until
French and Slav and German, except for
their iteratures, shall become forgotten dia-
lects like Welsh or Irish, the picturesque sur.
vivals Of an Old World tribaIism.
RECENT INCREASES.
At the present hour the peoples of the
United Kingdom and 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,OOO, 900 souls; at the beginning of the
Nineteenth century that they increased to
20, 500, 600; at the present time they are about
100000 In the space of eighty years the
English speaking peoples multiplied five
times over, ard it 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 will be SIS, 0OO, 900,
while DR.. Strong, of New York, reckons that
in 1880 the population of Europe viii be
534 ,0OC, 900. No complete statistics showing
the average increase al 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 1850 was 6se.
If, however, we were to apply the same
test to the English peoples and suppose them
to multiply for another hundred years as they
did from 1870 to 1856, they would reach the
enormous total of 1,343, 900, Goo It would be
however, to suppose that the
ratio Of increase will continue SO long. DR..
Strong bases his calculations In this way: In
Great Britain the ratio of increase from 1910
to 1850 was 2.40 per cent; during the next
ten years it was a44; the next ten years it
was $50, and from 1870 to 1880 it was 1857
per cent. So we see the ratio of increase
steadily rising for forty years, and there is no
apparent reason why it should not continue
to rise But as he is dealing with so long a
period Of time as q hundred years, DR.. Strong
prefers to suppose that the average ratio of
for the century will be only one-half
what it has been during the last decade, and
30 puts the probable population of Great Brit
ain in 1880 at 81, 0OO, 600.
On the other hand the Swiss statistician
however, the American estimate, let us con-
<ho hy.op ~ H.
speaking people. The Australian rate Of in
'rease for the ten years from 1870 to 1880 was |
e. so per cent. that of South Africa, 1872
But suppose that Canada, Australia and |
south Africa double their population once |
very twenty-five years-the United States |
las done that since 1oS5-then the English |
population Of the British colonies in 1880 |
VII be 178, 600 600. For the United States |
-ery complete and satisfactory statistics are
valuable from the beginning of the century.
The ratio Of increase varied during the dec
des from 1900 to 1880 from 80 to 80 per
ent.
ROOM IN THE UNITED STATES
With these figures before him, Dr. Strong
l. Hummer confines his investigation to Eu-
ope-proposes to leave out Of account all |
uture immigration, and to confine himself |
o the increase Of births over deaths, leaving
immigration IS set OF against any possible
heck upon growth. Calculated upon this
trictly moderate basis the population Of tho
United States stands for 1850 at 4S0, 00o, 600
he total Anglo-Saxon population Of the
Torld would then be us 200 000, as compared
18th 5S4 ,000, 600 Of Continental Europe And
must be remembered that these figures
now the largest probable population of Eu-
ope and the smallest probable numbers Of
ae English speaking race.
In face Of these tremendous figures it Ia
ell to be reminded that the whole Of the
nglish speaking population Of the world
multiplied as they are likely to be ct the end
another century-wsre to be planted down
i the territory Of the United States, and
len doubled, the people would still not be 30
nick upon the ground IS they are today in
elgium.
While In France TIN population Is $50 to
le square mile, in Germany 216 in England
nd Wales 42S, in Belgium ISL, in tho United
tates, exclusive Of Alaska, the population is
,ly 10 per square mile. Indeed, tho &C, 00O,-
% Of the United States In 1880 might be put
to Texas, and yet the population would not
as dense as in Germany. Put the whole
'esent population of the United States into
akota, and the people would be less crowd
than today in England and Walea Our
are Of the sarths surface, therefore, seems
/ ample Inheritance even for the over
helnling increase of the future. 1t is Of
ore immediate consequence 70 inquire
neither this people scattered over so r,anv |