THE WHITE MINORITY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 12

THE WHITE MINORITY.

F k; 0. Chiozza Money, writing recently m a London newspaper, makes an earnest plea for a larger birth-rate on the part of the white races. "The white races," he says, "are a small minority m the world, and they cannot continue to lead the world unless they maintain numerical as well *ms intellectual and moral strength." 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. Canada 6,950,000, Newfoundland 250,000, Australia 4,400,000, New Zealand 950.000, South Africa 1.400.000, India 300,000, and the rest of the Empire 250,000, making the grand total of white population 59,500,---000. The colored population m India alone is given as 314,700,0Q0, while South Africa adds 4,700,000, Canada 200,000, Australia 100,000. New Zealand 50,000, and 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 lesa than tho population of the German Empire m 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 m the birth-rate on orte hand and the increased call of the ovei*seas 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 si'geest practical steps to remedy it. It is idle to- preach to men and women the joy or .the duty of family life xinder the stress and strain of our present competitive social conditions. The more thoughtful and 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 iv the solution of the general social problem; of which race suicide forms a striking phase. ..