| Show COST Ob 01 I N What colonies cost Is II a subject ot of no little interest to thIs country at pres present eat ent Statistics Issued by the Bureau at have been published by the San Francisco Call shoving the tho ox ex penso penie colonies have hae been to the Fatherland According to these fig figureR ores Germany Imported last year ear goods foods to the tho value lIlue of marks and ex exported ported goods to the value alue of marks To obtain this trade the goy gO spent marks or moro more than tho total trAde amounted to nut But this It Is claimed d does es not represent rep resent the entire cost of the policy poll C Famine Famille and sickness have haO been encountered In German East Africa and caused enormous loss lOBS to the mu In the district ot of Tunga Tanga the tho pop Is II said to have diminished from to by means ot of famine It leprosy smallpox and typhoid fever teer The colony is III throe three times the size ot of Germany but Its Ihl tm trade e Is in mostly with British India Tho German are oro taxed Ilia heavily vII for tor the maintenance or of German supremacy over oer terrItory from which but little faille revenue II obtained The figures are Bre made public for tor the purpose of showing the tally folly ot of a policy polle that seeks expansion In tropicAl se re glons hut there are two sides to ever every story Europe MI has during the latter lotter part of this century been under the he necessity of sending Bending out from her over overcrowded crowded about people who have taken up their abode In indifferent different Parts of the world And the continues continue In n a short hort time there will bo be no coup coun tl try except Japan over which European influence does dols not extend Ilse great powers must either secure colonies for tor their surplus population or suffer this surplus to merge Into other nations Germany especially cannot exist as a groat unless she sho can and hold nn an abundance or of territory for tor her rapidly growing population The colon ml policy polle Is from a nationalistic stand standpoint point undoubted correct This I Is proved b by the fact that the great powers which command the s finances tenaciously held hoM to their colonies and Industriously sl look for tor new o openings It is II noi not known that thal Great Britain 1 Lr willing to give up India or South Africa notwithstanding the enormous cost ot of maintaining I sovereignty Russia would 1 seem to ID control territory enough for ten notion nations but the Im imperial government I still seeking to expand the boundaries of the county count i In nearly every direCtIon It 1 is Understood that a colony is iu not t as 48 a arule arule rule seif from the beginning but It Is II also quite apparent that thal the rulers ruler ot of nations have hao found colonial expenditures tome some ot of the best paying investments All Ml depends depend on circum Io es A etron government sound morally and guided b by the tho principles or of justice will ill grow stronger and stronger na SIB its domain Is II extended and It Ope are enlarged 11 t is I only nl when whon corruption and decay deeRY set In th that t atta atea and multitude aggravate the con It If th there re Is MY any particular lesson the tho United d States StattS have to learn Itam It la Is certainly not MY any against legill legitimate mate expansion Europe is II the smallest or of continents yet et her inhabitants Inhabitant nil all allbut but dominate the entire world arid With Without Without out t n Ih jho monarchies ot of Eu Europe rope would be where and China are tOOl today I |
