The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-09-19

Rev. S. G. Smith delivered a lecture
last night at the Peoples church, on
1.-THE Future of the Anglo-SaXon." He
said:
The nineteenth century has had
many characterizations, but it is essen
TALLY the century Of the white race.
At the beginning of this century the
Mongolian was the most numerous
race in the world. That race has been
practically stationary. 1t has been
stationary. and the white race has
multiplied by a law we'll known since
the days Of Nautilus, namely, that a
race expands as the means Of subslst-
ence are plentiful and easily obtained.
The industrial century has been
breeding century.
But the expansion has not been Of
the white race as a whole, but that
portion Of it included in the European
civilization. At the beginning of the
century there were about 16OOOO,OO0
belonging to the European peoples. At
the end Of the century there are about
300 000 600 This includes Europeans In
America and the islands Of the sea.
But if the expansion Of the Euro
pean peoples is the significant fact of
the century. the expansion Of the Eng
disappearing peoples is the most re-
markable expression of it. At the be-
ginning of the century about 20,00OOO0,
One-eighth of the number, spoke Eng
lish At the end of the century there
are 125 COOS GEO. or one-fourth Of the
whole number.
But the British empire includes about
400 600 0Q0- Of human beings Many Of
these subject races speak English. In
another century they will all do so.
Add to these the nearly 100000, 900 now
and soon to be under the authority of
the United States, and you have the
impressive spectacle of One-third the
human race under the influence of the
AnglO-SaNOn./
But power is not measured by num-
bers or by territory. 1t is measured
in resources, in commercial and indus
trial achievement, in that vast COM
p,eX of facts and forces known as a
civilization. When measured in this
way, this One-third of the human fam
lily far outbulks the rest in every ele-
ment of power. One hundred years
from now there viii be three great
world pOWers-China, Russia and the
AngIo-American peoples. The other
nations Will be attendant satellites to
these triple stars.
I think at the present time that
China is underestimate and Russia is
overvalued in CNrrent thought. That
empire Of 120,0000O0 inhabitants has
about $4,000, 900 Russians But the
various elements are badly fused. and
it is not yet a nation. The standard
of living is low. One American eats
as much as two Russians. If she fed
her people, Russia would not have a
bushel Of wheat to export.
This brief resume Of facts is i'm
preSsiVe as to the opportunities and
values Of a thoroughly good under
standing between Great Britain and
the United States. By a prOvAential
hand, these two nations were separated,
the one from the other, for the develop
merS Of history and the SoOd of the
race. The studipity of George III.
and his advisers was more than
all the political wisdom Of / 900 gears
before that time. It furnished a proper
home for free institutions, and ena-
Died this country to become a
an example and an argument. But the
British government at that time was
not this British people. The develop
TD~hS of free institutions in Great Brit
ain is no less remarkable than in this
country. The British government now
1epl esents the people as the government
does in this country. There are these
TWO free governments on earth, and
in the same sense, there is no third
The English people are eager for a
better understanding and more cordial
relations. 1t has been said that Eng
land is weak and timid and needs big
jonathan to take care of her. But as
the war in this country was an upris-
ing of the public emotion and public
conscience, so the response of England
to our cause was the enthusiastic eX-
preston of her people, before which
the government was as pOwerIess as
ours would have been had it delayed
the message of civilization to Spain.
We have been misrepresented on both
sides. Each people has been too apt
to accentuate the faults Of the other.
The aristocracy of England has a
grudge against us for proving the right
of man to a free chance for his de-
VelCpment. We have not understood
the rapid movement Of events on the
ether side and do not recognize a sister
democracy in England, which is far
more free than France. We have mis-