| Show edt EDI editorials TO RIALS THE ASHANTEE WAR WAB THE tim latest new now york papers come to hand assume that the ashantee ash Asb antee war ii virtually over the I 1 he now new york merald herald has the following dispatch J which we do not recollect to have seen seela in dispatches sent to this thia city london i feb tho foll following iol wing h Wl bly important dispatch from sir 0 arnet avnet waseley wolseley wois Wola seley eley commander of 0 the Ash ashantee autee antee expedit expedition lou iou was ras received today by bv the secretary of 0 state for war graft ali ail all the white prisoners held by the ash have been delivered to me inc the kluga klug accepts my terms for tho the cessation s of hostilities which he aam nam and ha hll to PAY an indemnity of wo balt halt a rew few days daya the merald herald comments upon this dispatch in lit this thil tyle the tho Asli asil anteo antee expedition his resul ed cd in a groit great within a shorter shorts r period r lod iod than the most san sanguine bel bei levers levera in de british t ish pluck and endurance could have anticipated d and with a trilling low loss ot life the enterprise has proved a holiday excursion compared with the long iong ion lon marches the perilous mountains ns and denies defiles and the many dangers which had to be met and overcome overe omo by abyssinian expedition but the tha results from the subjugation of kimt king kotrbe will lil be infinitely more valuable to england eastland bag Baj rland thin than the ean eal campensa 1 for tho the suppression or eing king T theodore h r e that paper further goes on to say that this success means substantially ly the annexation to the british empire of an immense and rich territory ili in tropical Africa and that the occupation of Coom Coo massie assle assie by the british army will be another entering nt ering wedge for civilization into the heart of e equatorial bato r fal lal africa tho the no now new w york ork graphic accepts the report of the submission of king coffee and speculates upon the future of that continent in this tills manner mauner tho the ashantee war Is ended and br british armb arms rm are again covered all over with wilh glory at t the trifling expense of and a few hundred lives more or less but bat tho question of most in terest today to day Is IB what to do arth with the continent la in which this small await con conquest has been made the continent itself does not support boday today to bo hoday boday day above one fourth the population that might live upon it with ease case and comfort it hasvart has hag tast vast unsettled districts much of its soil boll Is rich its climate is salubrious its natural productions product lona lons are of great value it Is well watered and abounds in rivers Mor moreover coyen coyer it I 1 iles lies dl til erectly la im the way of the commerce of the whole globe and certainly it would seem that one of the furst first questions for english or european to answer Is what tp to do with africa the let alone policy has had its ita day africa has been practically let alone three thousand years and nothing has come of it hut but savagery isit iselt not time that the civilized nations should utilize this rich and beautiful continent for the benefit of mankind mr nin galton gallon proposed that africa should be colonized by chinese emigrants and that the english government should employ its navy to transport a million or two ol of ChI namen rAmen from that overcrowded over crowded empire to its uninhabited districts |
