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Africa, to whom we do not owe any allegiance whatsoever."

So that outside its white or European races it is clear the Empire has
no general or equal citizenship, and that, far from being one, it is
more divided racially against itself than are even opposing Asiatic
and European nations which have the good fortune not to be united in a
common, imperial bond.

The total white population of this incongruous mass in 1911 consisted
of some 59,000,000 human beings made up of various national and racial
strains, as against 66,000,000 of white men in the German Empire the
vast majority of them of German blood. And while the latter form a
disciplined, self-contained, and self-supporting and self-defending
whole, the former are swelled by Irish, French-Canadians, and Dutch
South Africans who, according to Sir R. Edgcumbe, must be reckoned as
"coloured."

It is one thing to paint the map red, but you must be sure that your
colours are fast and that the stock of paints wont run out. England,
apart from her own perplexities is now faced with this prospect. Great
Britain can no longer count on Ireland, that most prolific source
of supply of her army, navy, and industrial efforts during the last
century, while she is faced with a declining birth-rate, due largely,
be it noted, to the diminished influx of the Irish, a more prolific
and virile race. While her internal powers of reproduction are
failing, her ability to keep those already born is diminishing still
more rapidly. Emigration threatens to remove the surplus of births
over deaths.

As long as it was only the population of Ireland that fell (8,500,000
in 1846 to 4,370,000 in 1911), Great Britain was not merely untroubled
but actually rejoiced at a decrease in numbers that made the Irish
more manageable, and yet just sufficiently starvable to supply her
with a goodly surplus for army, navy, and industrial expansion in
Great Britain. Now that the Irish are gone with a vengeance it is
being perceived that they did not take their vengeance with them and
that the very industrial expansion they built up from their starving
bodies and naked limbs contains within itself the seeds of a great
retribution.

"Since Free Trade has ruined our agriculture, our army has become
composed of starving slum dwellers who, according to the German notion
are better at shouting than at fighting. German generals have pointed
out that in the South African war our regular and auxiliary troops
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