THE WHITE MINORITY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 114, 30 September 1912, Page 4

THE WHITE MINORITY.

Mr. L. G. Chiozza Money, writing recently in a London newspaper, makes an earnest plea for a larger on the part of the white races. "The white races," he, says, "are a small minority in the world, and they cannot continue to lead the world unless they maintain numerical as well as intellectual and moral .itrength." To emphasise the seriousness of the position as it concerns the British Empire, Mr. Money presents a "close estimate" of the Imperial population for 1911. The United Kingdom is credited with a white population of 45,000,000, 1 Canada 6,950,000, Newfoundland ■250,000, Australia 4,1(10,000, New Zealand 950,000, South Africa 1,400,000, India 300,000, and the rest of the Empire 250.000, making a grand total of white population 59,500,000. The colored population in India alone is given as 314,700,000, while South Africa adds 4.700,000, Canada 200,000, New Zealand 50,000, ahd the. rest of the Empire 34,750,000, the total of the colored population of the Empire being 354,500,000. The white population of the entire British Empire is. less than the population of the German Empire in Europe, and not much larger than the population of Japan. Australia accommodates upon a huge continent a population about the same size as that contained within the jurisdiction of the London County Council. The population of the United Kingdom, between a fall in the birth-rate on one hand and the increased call of the overseas dominions on the other, is at a standstill, if it is not even declining. Mr. Money admits that it is easier to deplore race suicide than to suggest practical steps to remedy it. It is idle to preach to men and women the joy or the duty of family life under the stress and strain of our present competitive social conditions. The more thoughtful and the more self-respecting the citizen the less is he likely to respond to such an appeal. The remedy, then, Mr. Money concludes, is to be found only in the solution of the general problem of which race suicide forms a striking phase.