Page 230 - clra62_0019-(GIPE)

XXIII.
THE RELATIVE GROWTH OF TRE COMPONENT PARTS OF
THE EMPIRE.'
HE object of the present paper is to call atten-
T tion to the growth of the Empire in detail-to
compare the progress in one part with the progress in
another, and to make a' few comments on the ideas
thus suggested, The growth of the Empire in the mass
is a familiar idea, but the nature of the growth will be
better understood if we also take the different parts by
themselves,
F or this purpose -a few tables have been prepared,
and are put in the Appendix. These deal with the
area, population, revenue, imports and e.xports, and
other partilillars of the main divisions of the Empire
in a recent year-I 897, where possible-compared with
1871. A still shorter period would have been prefer-
able, as the object is to throw light upon the sort of
progress in the Empire that is actually going on; but
1871 to some extent marks a new era, coinciding with
the Franco-German War and other events about that
time, which have altered greatly all international rela-
tions. It is also a census year, and there is no very
ttood date, subsequently, which could have been the
a U >+ing-point for a comparison. It may be remarked
are nee,", . II h 1 h h " d
't' 'etlca y t at at oug statlstlcs are rna e use
P OSI Ion. f "1 h W 11
. d d not a paper 0 statlstlca researc.
e-
cons I e~e \\ 'h''l OIl \---:11" i.lsed, extracted from such every-
occupatlOn w '",\ WI ~" 5t t' t' al Ab t t r th e
S rae s {or
a IS IC
~
B t h t ese are a II que~
u
hardly perhaps be dis the Royal Colonial Institute, February,
way the final settleme~urnal of the Institute of that date,
222