None of our race live within the Tropics. There is not a colony of our race, the Aryan race, anywhere within 22 degrees of the equator. The men of our race who have been doing a commercial business in Manila do not have their families there. They raise a family of half-mixed natives in Manila and leave their real families at home. So it has been with commercial England through the Tropics everywhere, for you can no more produce a white man, a man of our blood, in the Tropics than you can a polar bear.
Climatic conditions place their limit upon men just as firmly as upon plants and upon animals.
Trade does not follow the flag. If it be true that trade follows the flag, then England's trade with her colonies ought to be a good example and an argument in its favor. That ought to settle the question. Trade follows the best markets, and England's experience is a refutation of the doctrine that trade follows the flag. I should like to have somebody tell me.