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horrible nightmare; nay, more, it will develop into a tragedy 

 as serious as any tale of the Spanish Conquistadores, and 

 the Indians of South America, or of the German and other 

 races with the negroes cf Equatorial Africa. 



With the present population that exists in the Tropics 

 it is foolish to expect to develop our resources over there 

 to anything like the proportions suggested and those who 

 try to do so must either fail in their object or else they 

 will kill out the natives at an alarming rate (to say nothing 

 of ruining present development work on which these 

 natives or the bulk of them are already employed), because 

 the discipline and pressure under which the men would 

 have to work would reduce them to such a degree of 

 temperamental and physical misery that they not only 

 would, but they will rather die than go on with it. This 

 means, therefore, that those who are to come after us 

 will have to starve or else reduce the rate at which our 

 population is increasing because, as we stand to-day, the 

 white race cannot progress without the raw materials 

 and the foodstuffs that we are drawing from the Tropics, 

 and which we shall need in ever-increasing quantity as 

 fresh generations come and go and the population of this 

 country, of America or elsewhere grows larger and larger. 

 Already farseeing practical men are realizing at last that 

 if the natives in the Tropics continue to be killed off even 

 to the same extent during the next ten or twenty years 

 that they have been in the last score of years, it will be 

 found that the people with the white skins will also become 

 considerably reduced as regards their numbers, wealth 

 and power. This is not surprising, as without larger 

 supplies of native labour than we already possess we shall 

 lack the food, the raw materials and the trade called into 

 being by these coloured races who alone can cultivate the 

 soil and handle the crops in the full Tropics. 



Commenting generally on one or two points in the 



