Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1893 — Who Will Govern? [ARTICLE]

Who Will Govern?

Europeans and North Americans almost universally believe that the white man is destined to subjugate, and therefore govern, and therefore exploit, the world; that his force, whatever itß origin, will always be tho superior one, and that he will, by degreos, direct all Indians, Chinese, Africans, i nd natives of Spanish America, and. in directing, use them, if for their advantage still alßo for his own. Mr. Pearson, though not the loast in the world of a negrophito, a man doubtful, indeed, whether tho inferiority of the colored rases may not prove to be one of tho permanent laws of nature, disbelieves this theory entirely. He points out with crushing cogency that the white man never has quitted, and probably never can quit, a comparatively small temperate zone, comprising Europe, part of North America, a bit of South America, Australia, and n small section of Africa, and has not, therefore, limitless rcom in which to expand. His territory is comparatively small and infertile, and he cannot, therefore, multiply, except In a ratio which is Slowly diminishing as population grows too thick for oomfort, and, wo may add, as the soil ho occupies begins, from overcultivation, to show signs of that steady deoreaso in fertility,which is, wo take it, one grand danger of Europe, especially in Germany and ltussin, and of ali tho older settlements in North America. There is, therefore, no chance of his settling any large fresh aroa or clearing any new land of its people, as the Spaniards cleared the West ladles of t'aribs, and tho English are clearing Australasia of its aborigines.—The Spectator.