The present rate of increase among; the ".*nffan people is 863T080 per annum. Ten years hence, if the birth-rate does not fall considerably, there will be a population of aUout 75,000,000, and it will be about 83,000,000 in 1936. Either emigration on a large'scale,or a great drop in the birthrate, will be necessaiy to the social ease atiil contentment. "If these ends are not achieved," says Br. Nystrom, a distinguished Swede. v;ho has ju6t published a wort on the menace of Prus'sian militarism to the future peace of the world, Tnero'will be no peace in Europe. . . A fresh war cannot fail to follow in a-not very distant future, perhaps in a deoade, for tie overcrowded country will then have many millions'of unemployed, desti%te, and famished inhabitants, who'must in one:way or other be-provided for."-
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 3
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