Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-07-14
A StOlid Little Nations Workshop,

StOltd Little Nations Workshop,
Java has Al 900 miles of territory, or
is the size of Alabama, and yet it has
2S,OOO,OOO of people, or almost as
many as the whole of Italy. The little
European nation of the Dutch not
only owns Java, but Sumatra and
other parts of the East Indies, amount
ing to a population of 2SOOOOOO,
larger than Italy, and nearly as many
people as live in Great Britain and
Ireland. If these people only had the
knowledge, what could they not do?
But as the Dutch have the knowledge
these 2S,OOO,OOO merely raise coffee,
etc.. ETC., for the small Dutch nation
which is composed only of 100000 OF
people. Every Dutch man and woman
therefore, in effect, operates from six
to seven East Indians. The Dutch
control in the East Indies over 10000
square miles OF great and little islands,
being three times larger than whole of
Texas and five times larger than
California.
How much more does Europe derive
from the older Indies than from the
West Indies? The West Indies still
keep the name Columbus bestowed
upon them as the western end of old
India. There the Dutch have some is
lands, amounting to only 4O3 square
miles, or about seven times the size of
the mutilated District of Columbia,
and inhabited by $4,000 people.
They possess in the West Indies
about the population OF Charleston, S.
e., and in the East Indies the popula-
tion of all Queen Victoria's home DOS
sessions.
The Dutch have little State called
Guiana or Surinam, in the northern
part OF South America, the last OF
once great empire they owned there,
till the Portuguese drove them out,
and Surinam has 1900 people, and as
much area as Louisiana. There are no
more people in old Holland, of the
Netherlands, than live in Ohio or Illi-
nois. Little Holland is composed
of eleven provinces or States. While
tits famed for its agriculture, it is also
strong in its towns; Amsterdam is as
big as st Louis, or Baltimore or Boston :;
Rotterdam is as big as New Orleans.
In addition to operating the 29,OOO,-
OOO OF people in their colonies, the
Dutch manage to get out of their little
bottom lands in Holland a great deal
OF money. Their trade with England
alone is something stupendous they
send to that country nearly $9,OOO,-
OOO worth OF butter, and $4,000, 600
worth of butterine, or oleomargarine.
They make the English take $4,000
OOO worth of their cheese, and 81 ,OOO,-
OOo worth Of oxen and sheep; and in
addition to all that they fire into Eng.
land $4,000, 900 worth of iron and steel,
and Sill ,000, 600 worth of cotton and
woolen goods.
We hear very little about Holland
in our day, because the greater Holland
is Off there between the Indian and Pa
cific oceans. During our civil war the
slaves were emancipated in the East
Indies upon that cheap and decent
basis which should have been adopted
is this country instead OF civil war.
The Dutch paid 1925 apiece for all the
slaves, $1,000 in number. In Java are
only 10000 Europeans, and about 22O,.
OOO Chinese and some 1900 Arabs ;
all the rest OF the population is native.
The government owns the domain
OF Java. Out of their possessions
there the Dutch produce a vast wealth
OF sugar and coffee, tea, rice, indigo,
tobacco, tin and quinine, and they
send four-fifths OF the whole of their
own country. whence it goes all over
the world. Upon the proceeds the
Dutch stay at home and paint pictures,
and wind up their ancestors clocks.
and improve their breeds of cattle.
They prove that it is not necessary to
have huge vast nation to be com.
Portable and thriving. The Dutch
came out here and bought some of
our best railroads, but they did not
know what to do with them, and let
them go for a song, so that Anglo
Saxon speculators picked them up.
Yet the Dutch left over here in the
colony of the New Netherlands have
produced some of our greatest cap
italists. like Vanderbilt, Garrison, and
others.
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