Show lUlL T COHIXO blACK r TIe ESTEltX VOItLD TIE VAT or PEOPLES TAKES ITS 1AV JT I was rvctnllyfontemleti In tho Cuiiteniporary BcjeJ U If the injacy wIr wise the next pope would think In English We pp I roiibtantly reminded by the game tltir tliat the center of gravity or our planet toss elilfUd and that the Jledittrraitnn I fast becoming an Idle Inland sea locked In a Uecaj inj continent I lia placd its part It the pat of humanity but the part I over and done The scat of im pire li agaIn lolloping the sun ns It h always done and I once more drifting into the w at Veare constantly told that Europe Eu-rope Li dwindling and becoming uC little account and that the mastery of the uorld will rest with tile pro rica from hose Ills Cal the large music of our English ipeucli The Old WorM quarrels the frontier feuds of Kuroiw the strife and rival rice Teuton au J Gaul will endure fur itt a littlu lodger but they D was of fading consequence for the world The Kreiieh aqj the German Ger-man armies may watch one anotiier across the Ilninu and the Cossack may still dream of watering c hon beneath the shadow of St Sophia but tilt se poor ambitions aLt hatreds I11 men as little for the future of mankind a did the quarrels quar-rels of the grrcnx and the tiuts in the dyIng das of the lower empire Tho map of Europe may 0 changed and rechanged and its I > cOle3 may conquer aril conquered but they and the very tongutv they speak shall fall nud fade entirely until French and Slav and German exCept cept for their literature shall become be-come forgotten dialecU like Welsh or Irish the plcturefquesurvivals or an Old World tribalism tht the present hour the peoples of the United Kingdom and the United Stales represent about onefifteenth humanity and govern onethird of the planet and onefourth of 1U Inhabitants In tbobeglnnlngof r ut eighteenth century this race numbered num-bered less than GOO souK j at tho beginning of the nineteenth century they Inc to a > 500000 at the present time they are about 100000000 In tho space of Ih reuse II IA Ii2it spC uo people multiplied flo times over aud it is confidently reckoned that within another hundred years they will have outnumbered all the other civilized peoples put together JI Kummer the chief 01 the federal lureauof statistics Switzerland has reckoned that the total popula lou of Europe in the year 2oOU will be oS3000OOU while Dr Strong of New York reckons that In 103U the lopulatlon I of Europe will be 531 lOOOOi Xocompletcstatl tlrashotr lug the average Increase all over Europe are available for the early decodes of the century but the average increase of the continent Cor the ten yearn from 1S70 t 1550 was XS9 I however we were to nppy those tho-se test I the English peoplot and suppose them to multiply for spp another hundred yea a they did from 1S70 to 1SSO they would reach he enormous total of 1543000000 It would Iv unreasonable however t suppose that the ratio of Increase will cohtlmieso long Dr Strong bases his calculations in this uay In Great JlritalnUie ratio of Increase rom 1S40 to ISiO was 219 per cent i during the next ten years I was 344 Die next ten years it was SflO and from 1S70 t 1SSO I was 1057 lore cnt < wo see the ratio of Increase crease steadily rising for forty year md titers noapiareiit reason why shculd continue torUe Hut as lIe is dealing with so long u I delng Ol a period of time as a f hundred years Dr Strong prefers to suppose that bloc average ratio of Increase for the century will 0 only onehalf what thas ben during the last decade and s iiuts the pmlable rmiiulatlon 000 oC Great Britain In 1899 at 57000 000On On the other hand the Swiss I isticlau fixes It for 2000 at 142000 OJ Accepting however the American estimate let I us consider the other branches of the English iwaklng people The Australian I I rate of Increase for the ten years from ISO to 1550 scat 56 0 per cent Oust of South Africa 73iS Hut jpjxjM that Canada Australia and oulh Africa double their popula ton every twentyfive years the failed States has done that since 1633thten the English population or tin Itritbh colonies in lSO will b 176000000 For the United Elate A ery complete and satisfactory btatlstics are = aiabIu from the beginning be-ginning of the century The ratio D f Increase varied during the decades de-cades from 1SOO to 1550 from S to 0 leer cent With the figures before him Dr Strong > f ICununer confines lU investigation to Europe pro > oses to leave out of account all l = etl future Immigration I and fcuflce ilmself to the Increase births over deaths leaving immigration as I HtofT against any possible cheerio Onrg lit Calculated upon this trlctly moderate basis the jiopula lon of the United States stands for 9SO at J5l000000 The total A nlo Saxon population of the world would then be 713000000 as compared com-pared wit S340000 < > 0 ot Continental Europe And It must 0 remembered remem-bered that theM figures show the let probable population of Eu opeaiid the smallest probable liuni tiers of the English speaking race L ll N In face of these tremendous fIgures it Ia trell t be reminded that I I the whole of the English speaking populations of the world multljilled D they are likely t 0 at the end of nattier century were to planted own In the territory of the cited Stated and then doubled the eople would still 1 not bo so thick upon the 1J nI ground as they are today in Mel iumWhlleluFranre WhlleluFranre lheporulatlou Is M SO to the fquaro mile in 1 Germany 1C in England and Wale 2 In hIelgiurn 451 In the United States exclusive of Alaska the population sonly IRperKiuaro mile Indeed thee 50000000 of the United States night lie jut into TeX and yet the xipulutlon would not be as dense as In Germany Put tin whole present lopulatlbn of the Unit States Into Xikota and the people would be lf s crowded than today in England and 11 Our share of the enrtles surface thertibre seem an ample Inheritance even for the overwhelnj Ilg increase of tho future I I of more Immediate consequence to In quite whether this J > ple scattered overso many climes anti to many anils hut bound by a r 1 wtch and common memories and I Common laws will remain In any real sense homogenous rare The whole tendency civilization I I I point an answer In the affirmative pint ThUd |