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Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., The world is filling up, December 3, 1909

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Title	Disquisition by Scripps, E.W., The world is filling up, December 3, 1909
Collection	E. W. Scripps Papers, 1868-1926
Creator/Author	Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926
Date Original	1909-12-03
Subject-LCSH	Population
Is Part Of	E. W. Scripps Papers, Series 4, Box 01, Vol 02 E. W. Scripps' Writings 1909, Book 2
Collection finding aid	http://www.library.ohiou.edu/archives/mss/mss117.html
Call Number	mss117/ser4/box01/book02/354-361
Original Format-AAT	Essays
Publisher	Ohio University Libraries. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections
Type	Text
Format [IMT]	Application/pdf
Physical dimensions	8 p.; 11 x 8.5
Identifier	ser4_box01_vol02_354-361_world_filling_up.pdf
Donor	Scripps, Charles E. (Charles Edward), 1920-
Rights Information	In the public domain. Unpublished works are under copyright for the life of the author + 70 years
Citation	E.W. Scripps Papers, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries
Transcript	Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://media.library.ohiou.edu/scripps 1).'11e o 00000 000000000 0000 X 0000 0000 xx~ 0000 0000 X 0000 0000000000000000000000000 0000 0000 Or)()('1 \.... \J.. 0000 THE WORLD IS FILLIJ!:} UP. DOOO 0000 0000 figures 0000000000000000000000000 0000 X 0000 foIl 0000 XZX 0:)00 0000 X OODO Oc):)OOJO 'O·~i\,) "',J.d~ o a.re t::l.ken as m'18'r L.:I 3.2,'13 1Jased on my memory statistics I from vO t r9:1d. The best of statisticians are pro~.1e to el-'r. y due to insufficient data, to f oj t' t' I • •... o - S b d "tl~eorH f t '. 1.. 80 Is Ie malnn:T, 1 s no y ,ase on t!}8 hJ. :J 0 s' a;'01 r sake of statistics, like some art is supposed to be on the of n Art for art's sake." Stati st,i c s are prepared for th.e purpose.".' t'. p.LJV1:l~ lleOTles ~ and wi ah to prove anythinr~ statistics is 1· t·IS d"1.L""."2,,.'1 CU It I' the statistic The present est Ion I ieV8 , is something over 1;500, 000 I • There is pro babl:r sor!let:~ling 1 ike 500 ,000, O::lO one-third of the 'l{orld' s populs.tion. It is estimated that there are 100,000, black men There be 25,000,000 or even ; 00. 0 000 , have such a stronc~ adr#:x:ture of African blood as designated as negroes. This would allow the bi the world's population. of e races • 354: The World is Filling Up. 2. rfhere are probably 500,000,000 of the yello~: race, if' tbese are i such races as are stronrd \r rJ13.:rked ,~ ~ reason of mixture with the yellow people. Irhere are said to be 300,000 ,000 il1habi tanta in Briti all India. r.1.nere are certainly bO,OOO,OOO more Islanders. people J i::lCluding the Paeific It is altogether probable that the world's population is 100,000 I 000 more, and af.l0Di:; this latter number could be found place for the more than 30,000,000 people in the southern part of North America i. all of South America, who have 80 much aboriginal blood as to exclude from the ranks of so call edwhi te people. It is said that on the avera:J~e Europe, Northern Asia, North and South America and other 5, has increased at BUell a rate as to double OI1(;e every eighty years. The :nrn and yellmv ra.cas a.re said to be reasing so as to double every sixty Jears. The Africans are said to double every forty years. I ta.ke it tha.t these lr:;.st 8 are basad va races, -lI~-hat are supposed to be act:J.al condit - full V6n to all limiting ca.uses, as the I1lv aJHang the white races that are 811tiJ'ely cievoid. of knowledge and ss than ei1Jner the ack or races. What ydll be the 1"13 sul t of c 01.<. :for a period of 100 years? If the relativ8 condi tiona of rewa ~srmrLb, 1 tatiorJ.s continue as at present) for 100 a. yellow and population of 8on~e 1,600,000,000 n:~ore cr lcas, ratllsr more than less. There 'will 1,000,000,000. Of the black races 800,000,000 ot: 9()O , ,000. Of "Nhi tee there would be SotHS I J 200» 000 , 000 • ~55 The World lfJ Fillirlg Up. I ;: V. At that time the total population of 4 , 600 J 000) 000. ivould be TI'16 people of the earth now form approxiillat.ely o1J.e-thi of the eart.n° s population, 100 years hence they ';,~ould 'Lo onl'ir.; one-fourth of t,he :;rorld' s I)OlJulatioll. TI:!.ere will be room enouGh on the earth to accQril!ilodate all of these people and perhaps owing to advancing oi vilizatioy;., henee a knovlled:~;e and control over Nature 1 each individual unit vf thi s greatly increased fJopulation could r fed, ter clothed, ~ld in ~0BBeBB of' more persunal euj oJ'Llent than that of l111e a.verage unit of today. How-ever J statistics made today are based upon conditions not of today but of condi tiona rable to the human than those of today. In 0 J"...L.."l,! tllI."<:";; S"V,C' t! ,,~, JS.," l' C. G~ , we ha va to (;0 [Jack - for the w~1i te men - eif:91ty Jears as averase from that d.ate to t'~~e present; in case of the hrm'lfi and yellow races we have go back in a 1 ike ~larJ.ner for sixt.~r years; and in the case of Vie have to go back for fort;y Y8ars. It can E3asily be seen how futile i t ~.vould be t,o base a.ll fUtUl'8 ca.lculations of growth of population on such long past periods. It is not much , if ,over a e;eneration ago ,;{rjen the avenll;;e longevity of the civilized white wan of Euro:tJe and Ameri.ca was only thirty years - it is no',[ fv~rt":HJ -.fL "U~ ur '.JT ~\,'..a,''...l." 's • Sixty years abl;O the populativ!l of 'the Unit; t.ea 'u:Tas doublincJ; ever.l twent:;'-fi ve years, a.nd thi s alroust e' '~Cl 1181 ,ro"j 'i A.J....VL... If \.·..\..,.l b~' the :preponderance of the birth rate over the death e. It was only some fifty-fi va years ago that C0.mJodore Per:cy dis-covered tile Japanese not far rE:1fHO ve bar1:::ari t J" • ::Since that t t~le Japanese have wonderfully increased their ratio of:;routh. 356 The World is r"lillir)ft, Up. 4. Sixty years a;£o India enjoyed none of tl).e adva.nta;:ses of modern ci vilization. The fJ1ague, famine and warfare were keeping down the c\'~rO\'\rth of population. En{~land has been very successful in ameliorating; the adverse conditions of the pl~:;ue. 'Ibe victims of famine, of la.te years, are not one-tenth of what they used to be J even allovdnz. for the great increase in popUlation. \~r ar f are 1n the penl. nsul a 'n as ceased."'e~yo'n uthl's , r~rea t re-forms h9.ve been lnade in ruJricul ture I irregation, transportation and other industries, so that there r.i.8.s been a great increase in accommodations for i:ncreasing nurnbers of Indians. Nearl::;' the whole of A.frica has now been occupied, and has passed under the administrations of civilized Eurofiial1 goverr.:1uents 1 with the resuI t of vastly checking the death rat.s and vastly incr'Hasing the number of births by each female African. The restless }:llro}Jian has not 6'Hm left Ohina alone. They have forced upon the Chinese L1any of the benefits of civilization which have enabled a increaSE; in the ratio of popula-tion gro'Jnh. But in this land, ttl.e Europian has not stopped death b~r v;arfare. How rnuch has been saved the Chinese by way of suppression of farnine and plru:;;-tle, if any, I have no means of knowing. By the aid of the whits :man·8 civilization, the yellow, brovm and black men bid fair to sGlother the whi te man himsel f. Vfuatever may be the actual fact, we white men consider our race the superior race, next in order comes the yellow people and then the brovm, and finally the black. The black, which is the most inferior of all races, 18 multiply-inr, s more rapidly than any other; the brown race corilSS next) and lastl y the white. e ~;ellow next J Bu·t what is the situation the te races'? iJ.nose peoples among the vihite races who are of longest enjoyed civilization, and which The World lS Illill Up. vh. even at this day, pE)rhaps; enjoy a hir:;her a.vsrars standard of intel1ectual-i ty, are the Latins. The Latins are al1~10st stationary race rl"be chief of the Latin nations in point of civilization, namely rr~'1ce, is a.ctually raridly retro(~rading in native population. country remains almost stationary, al thou:r,h it is 11e popul of COY"lst&1tl.v' and la:rgely recl'uited by emi0~rar'1ts,-Teutonic, ~emitic and even 8la.vie peoples. T"ne Scandinavians are increasi:ng~ hut more sl y t,he Gerrnans. There is a very tendency ar:;on~st all the so called _Anglo-Saxon people towards a decrease of populat Of all the white races, the Slavs that are nlOst inferior of the whits farLlily, are increasincs 'Iii th rapidity. The rat io, alone, shows an annual increase of populat excess of over deaths and emi~ran.ts, of over 2,000,000 a year. In fact the Slav f' a."llily is~?;rowing in numbers more rapidly t.han all the other white races and nations put together. F~perience has taught military experts that a soldier or butcher of other men as any white man, negro is as f icered. A great English general has declared that a mil be recruit.ed from amongst the inhabitants of Northern India a match for all the annies of bel ieve that they C&'Y} furni eh more t.han any Europian nation, and a dearth of men who have those to make successful generals on In reading Gib'bon, I ~iahometan invasion of Europe. In popUlation invading Saracens, 1"6 was no od soldiers to the 1, r a iss s sea. 'to " IS ~~nce H.re nece ~"'.r r e +- "'It V,) , The World is Iililling Up. 6. to defend their continent against the invaders. The vIhole of Europe VIas engaI::.;ed in great and little wars, nation against nation, and feudal chief against feudal chief. A weak and w·orn out Eastern impire was fighting for ita life and elistence on th~ Bosporus, fighting to ke(;p the gate of Europe closed to the invading bord, and while so fighting, had to defend itself from attack in its rear in Europe. The Turk finally took the gate and the hard swept in, swept ever westward and northward almost to the sates of Vienna, where be was finally stopped. This invasion covered the Balkans, the Two 8icilie8 and a part of Spain. lithe reason the invasion extended no further was perhaps owing to the volume of the flood, that is the number of men amongst the invaders was too sma.ll. Had there been hehind the Turks an army of 300,000,000 East Indians or 500,000,000 Chinese, or even 100,000,000 Africans, the flood irould h0..ve certainl:! subuerged all of Europe. Now the condition of Europe today. All Europe is not an armed camp to defend Europe J but a series of armed camps defying one another. Europe is taxi1.1fs her resources to the limit. What for? Not to defend Europe asainst the A.sian and African, but in order that one party ma.y take Qr save some little advant~e of another party of Europians. ~~land, even, the foremost nation of Europe, has allied herself with an Asiatic ~t,overn" ment to threa.ten her Europian neighbors. In warfare, notwithstanding all the exceptions that may present themsel ves, the rule is that success depends upon numbers. 1."he Europian is numerieally weak in the world -- not too weak at present, nor 1 i8}le to be weak for one, two or three generations, but every :lear that IJ9.sses seEJS the furo~ position in numbers, rela.tive t.o his ant8P,onist,~rO\;in'1; worse. Perhaps tbe world can hold 4,600,000,000 comfort.a1;1:1, perhaps it. ca.n even hold dou'j:)le that number, hut there is 9. liY'lit ~.. Q t r1e cap:\cit.:r cf the earth to susta.in the human flJllilJ. It ',iiI::" onl:r tAke 200 :rFE3.1~S, :;:"~, :_,02 ~~Q The World is Fill ing Up. 7. moat under 'pre ons, of i t.ary peace and sentimental life saving, to fill the world so full that no neVi white, yellcfw 1 brown or black men can find a foot hold 'Vli t!lout first some other human being. In that time, as now t blood will be thicker water; the yellow man will be for the yellow man, black, and the white man for hinlsel f; for brown, the colored races for as one against, their ancient, enemy and oppressor, the white man. The w'eakest will be crushed, and in this case, it viill est people. the cally small- '].loday the whits vvorld cotAld ann itself against yellow 1 brovm and black, and annihilate 8.. nd svtTeep from the face of the earth all these enemies of his future pro;~eny. A. century now 1 he vdll not be able to do this, perhaps even in half a century he will lose the growth of the enemy. S pOirier to restri It has been said for the past century that democracy is on trial. But nOVi it is almostJ universally conceded that democracy has stJood the test and proved itself. Democracy has proved to be very beneficial for nearly all; if not all) the units of those people lived a 'Norld large enOllf!;l to give every white faa.I1 all the room he needed, every black man a foot hold every brown and yellow man sllstena.!lCe. But the test of democracy is yet to come. It has yet to pro1Je whether i iJ can, or not, successfully preserve, not the dominions of the people it, perhaps, its ex.istence. I. I~v, +v 1!"1,. 8 line i:>f k Gen!J.a!lY should conquer and paeif~i ~).lrope, conquer fy the "~·,hi te Vlorld - pacify and mold peoples of the e'arth. Let us suppose be a wise and a learned rOO.n one CC!JJft1on nation all some ld., s invented rest of white should 360 , I j The World F li the :necess f r d. for the existence - of the individual, the fanily or sta.te, but, 'Nhol e vibi te race. Gi VB this man before i t'N as too late the r -wo ald reet all the force, military and econO!aic I one ,. a K1:ng, c !_=,I U(.;l.l l a kI.'l ng 1n 801'1 to re~.a.M.l. the future o"wJ-. ',1 d fail "to see the necessity of leadinr; hi s peopl e one successful 71ar B.f~~ainst all of the otJher peoples of - a war to the death I a war for annihilation, the I,rlUl"uel'". ~'"..... you will, of every huxllan whose skin 18 t,ajJted wi tb. any.....j. de;··;ree of color se 'II' cells in of te man. J ,. Balance of pO'~ver!! There is no such thing as IIBalance of Power." There is something which is called an unstable equilibrium nations races. 1"ioo.s of t 7 scarce1~r r.lOl'G t}""an ans, 861- dem mOl"'e than centuries J there are n!}...t;:.icns and races vino, for certain periods +u im-_e 1.l." US1...,t_"J'.. to· Y_6C1' 'Uit··, ir fit and before tr-:ting.... '-' conclusion of c some nei&~bor or neighbors. rrhis· is the "Bala,l'lCe of Power" 1 so call ed J that at present exists in Europe, and this is or 20; "Balance of Power" that for a few centuries 1 not more than It) existed bet'ween Asia a.."V1d Europe. the struf~sle of the survival of the fitest bet,jI8!m nations races I there 1S on6, and only one sure indication of fi test to survive, IS l;y the number and can 1 ir es. Dictated b',r E.W.Scripps rar~1ar 1 C81 i f 0 rnia , ___ ' ---'-- nc~ber 3,::~7t, ~,J-~~~~~':::::·~~n7;-- 36:[

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Transcript	Ohio University Libraries, E.W. Scripps Papers, MSS 117, Series 4, http://media.library.ohiou.edu/scripps 1).'11e o 00000 000000000 0000 X 0000 0000 xx~ 0000 0000 X 0000 0000000000000000000000000 0000 0000 Or)()('1 \.... \J.. 0000 THE WORLD IS FILLIJ!:} UP. DOOO 0000 0000 figures 0000000000000000000000000 0000 X 0000 foIl 0000 XZX 0:)00 0000 X OODO Oc):)OOJO 'O·~i\,) "',J.d~ o a.re t::l.ken as m'18'r L.:I 3.2,'13 1Jased on my memory statistics I from vO t r9:1d. The best of statisticians are pro~.1e to el-'r. y due to insufficient data, to f oj t' t' I • •... o - S b d "tl~eorH f t '. 1.. 80 Is Ie malnn:T, 1 s no y ,ase on t!}8 hJ. :J 0 s' a;'01 r sake of statistics, like some art is supposed to be on the of n Art for art's sake." Stati st,i c s are prepared for th.e purpose.".' t'. p.LJV1:l~ lleOTles ~ and wi ah to prove anythinr~ statistics is 1· t·IS d"1.L""."2,,.'1 CU It I' the statistic The present est Ion I ieV8 , is something over 1;500, 000 I • There is pro babl:r sor!let:~ling 1 ike 500 ,000, O::lO one-third of the 'l{orld' s populs.tion. It is estimated that there are 100,000, black men There be 25,000,000 or even ; 00. 0 000 , have such a stronc~ adr#:x:ture of African blood as designated as negroes. This would allow the bi the world's population. of e races • 354:

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