The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-02-27

Copyright. 1913, by Herbert QuckN
BY the Hindu Peril the peril that con-
fronts the fellow passengers the Good snip Eai'"
from the people Of that part Asia lying south and
southeast of the Himalaya Mountains Most OF 1t is
British India Farther India and IT'S ne1ghoorths
lands belong with them in broad way. car theu'
the Hindu peril because the Hindus are the mos'
numerous of them. and the vast majority OF them i've
In Hndustan.
These people numerous--to use an ola siml'e
AS the sands of the sea. and they are not good
passengers for the Good Ship Earth. Sometimes they
may become such bat it is 10 be feared that long De-
fore they be menace TO the welfare OF All
on board the problem of what our attitude shaii De
towards them will become world nightmare
Whenever a British writer begins TO tell OF ihoia
he protests that IT is nation, but continent
Well, 1t Is large but American minds not amazing
ly Take a map of the United States. place your
finger at Eastport. Maine and follow the Atiantic
coast to Key West, Florida. Now follow the west
coast OF Florida to Pensacola shoot nortnSa. .
through Minneapolis and st. Paul TO Prince Albert
Saskatchewan. Thence through the Canadian wider
ness. travel eastward Newfoundland and down the
coast to PASSPORT again. and will have made about
such Journey would bound British India
contains 1766.000 square miles, while the United
States has more than three millions But while We
have less than hundred millions Of people British
tudis has Soo.coo,ooo. tes4,SSf.e5S in fseis
These 500. 100000 fellow passengers Of ours are
very poor. and very ignorant and unenlightened
Therefore they multiply rapidly. Wherever there Is
found this Good Ship Earth a people which has
Q very high birth rate the masses will be found Nv
ing low intellectual plane. on low plane OF
~
huge families-they prosperous. but cut on from
the thought Of the world and benighted The French
Canadians are. they themselves say terrible for
children. and while not ab1ectly poor. they are
rather unprosperous. and they are intellectually un-
enlightened. The Russians have fearfully high
birth rate; they both poor and In darkness The
Chinese are cursed with perhaps the highest birth
rate earth and they both dreadfully poor and
dreadfully held down In intellectual Mfe The Hin
dus-meaning all the Indian peoplss-are far as
the masses are concerned. not only poor beyond the
conception Of American. but they plunged into
an Intellectual slavery that 10 appalling Therefore
they multiply very rapidly.
In the absence Of the accepted checks popula-
tion-war. pestilence, and famine-and In tho alb
sence OF the check which must como In to prevent
those BY checking multplicaton-the extirpation of
poverty and the attainment OF high intellectual life
tho people Of India will at the rate with which
their population has grown since FIRST II COM
puted amount In 1850 to $4,000 900; In A. D. 1000.
1t will be 676,000. 900; In A. D. 1850. II will be
1,o12.6oo.0oo and In A D. 400. It will be 1915
10000.
There Is room for such swarms. There are many
unused natural opportunities In the country. There
Ore coal. FROM waterpowsr and irr1gable lands but
at the present rate Of increase all oppor-
tunities will be overtaxed In Q hundred years The
Hindus are robbed BY TAXATION. and exploited by
landlordism and monopoly. but with q perfectly sys-
tenn Of distribution Of wealth. II such were to be
hoped for. multiplying ~ they are doing. poverty
would ovsrtake them through sheer swarming-in
the absence Of the enlightenment which diminishes
progency.
For their increase does not show their birth rate