Show I AjffiEBICAN COLONIZATION 3CETHODS The characteristics o a race persisl for generations and generations and though they may slumber for long periods e will they reappear when occasion shall arise to call them forth The persistence of the characteristics I of the AngloSaxon race is strongly evidenced in the proposed annexation of the Hawaiian islands Like their English ancestors and their English cousins American colonists go forth and plant themselves In a country usually untamed and uncivilized and after conquering it for themselves and j having imposed their political ideas upon i they then desire to incorporate I with the mother country This was what was done in Texas and to a very large extent In Oregon I was this same instict that led Americans through the Cumberland Gap and down i the Ohio and Mississippi to Spanish territory And there Is little doubt that if Jefferson had not negotiated the Lulaa nnrlhSp t0e American nn nn r people would very soon have begun to settle In French territory and when they had become a power there they would have set up their own practical practi-cal institutions and eventually have become connected with the fnited States Without the war with Mexico it Is more than likely that Upper California Cal-ifornia and New Mexico would have become Americanized and have become part o the United States Even when ceded to this country they had already become more or less Americanized In all these casesthe colonists have gone first and the government has followed fol-lowed And this explains their success In this respect the American and the English methods of colonization are identical and at the same time the very reverse of those adopted by France and Germany Germany has only i sought to become a colonizing nation I witLin a quarter of a century but she I has adopted the old French method of I sending her officials with all their red tape and paraphernalia first expecting i the colonists to follow Thus far they I have not followed And the reason is that the French and German methods I of colonizing are artificial while those England and American are natural I The true colonist seeks t establish I himself in a new land there to put in practice his ideas and to live his life I according to his own notions As adventures ad-ventures the French have had no superiors su-periors in America and in the seventeenth seven-teenth century they were well acquainted ac-quainted with regions of North America Amer-ica that were a shut book to the English j Eng-lish But where the English planted themselves there they stayed and I thrived and spread and this it is that marks the diffcnerce between adventurers adven-turers and colonists No matter what view one may take of the revolution whereby Americans get control of Hawaii or of the proposition prop-osition to annex that country to the United States it is an easy matter to trace the same methods to a large extent ex-tent that have characterized American expansion everywhere And they are identical with those of our colonizing ancestors in many respects I is by no means difficult to trace the same racal instincts in the Dole revolution and the Jameson raid In both cases there were chips from the old Anglo Saxon block |