New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-06
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SUNDAY TwENTYEGHT PAGES

ern and Central Africa Is not WHIT Tess pi" -,
teal than the project Of Mr.. Cecil Hno Sa u,
South Africa to drive an Eng1sn ruad bas hen
from Cape Town to Cairo. Yet England mas p ,
Willing 10 spend money and lives in helping ioi
ward his plan. The French. VINO have a ~ Cor
beginning in the West, cannot pe ID ga TO this
their Datr.otic excitement In regard W ~
gradual partition Of Africa among the EuroPeaa
nations And they cannot forget that En I.hinh
has already edged them out OF Egyp'' ~ ""'N''
they had given the Suez Canal r,.
The case OF India is st more obvious. me
French triumph in Siam during the last 49, a,
unless it's fruits be lost by negligence on .he p e
English commerce in the East more thai! a.,y
thing which has happened In the PIese,
,mrv The objective point Of this interhauonai
connnetition Is China, which means, roughly, one
third of the worlds market tne cohslitr =, ,
n buffer state between the freiicn III .hna,ah
and the English In Burmah was nuIlIeu n n,,oGe
Nv tho English panic at the Franco Nusai ,,;
Alliance But II Is now discoveIeu ma ,r,erciai
ali but nut a stop to the overland co, OH, Ill
rrute so long schemed for between Britlsh lnul i
and the heart Of China On the otnsr NAM
France is steadily advancing nortnwaru alors o.
natural highway which II me uoV u,iiI Ind nv
home will continue firm poncy, wiz I 49,. ~
nnnninq no the interior OF emma 10 rIe i'
eyenues Of trade. This should make CoI mn,
China as profitable to France as lnula ns,s ,,onoi
- IngIand II would console french ha'io"o'
.,da for tho defeat suffered In filnouslal az
he hands of the English century ago and IN i
the seemingly useless loss or HE III io'f' "
an ,Sis should be Joined with the steady ao.
vance of the Russian railroads IN the ulreJO %
Corea and the Pacific and the a,,ani
80, pr,tish India 10 the north Where RUSSIA -
t,, ali INT ready to take possession OF 'eia''
Tbe gravity of the situation Tor bI!ush 0o
merce thus becomes plain. Inc teimpo , h~,
pedent Of buffer state IN ola,, WIN mr,ted lone
i,ttln If Russia and France remain uiiteu c, .o
enough to withdraw half the trade OF o,ir,a
and Japan I'm Asia and great part Oh t"T ,eiond
African market, from Ensianu 80 mo ,Sorld
cannot recoup herself in other parts or the "otiu
There foreign competition (OWlng chlehy W VI.
policy Of protection in seii-delehcs ann,e
british free traGe) has already reuuceu '"e 81
merce of Great Britain to something hhe Ia,
rjvairv With other nations. II IS this feelng tlat
n turning point has now come IN her ioi's
struggle with England which has determined
the persistent action OF France ~ This
colonial expansion under the Repunhc iii'
Motley has been dcrided apparently pecauSe VI
it's ill-success in inducing Frenchileh ~ %
CRATE. But 1t is not the buiidihe up VI os n"
France which is desired. II IL the taxing poSN'r
sion ~ a sphere of territorial influence "hich
shall secure all these outlandish naISe'S
France and withdraw them from England Anu
almost without the worlds notice grfat steps
have been already made In this direction.
Hitherto the main hindrance In the way was
the centralized character OF all frenoh eo'elui
ment England also 10 longer SENDS put emf
Grants But she gives large part to the initiative
81 the colonial governments sometimes not
enough, II is true. as in the recent n'slihes !h
Siam Especially the protection ACCORDED ~
great chartered companies. during IN" hrSt peru"
OF colonial occupation. brings forward private
ability and resources To supplement the weakness
Of government Nothing ~ this can he expected
from the inVeterate routine Of French habitS OF
government (which IS the same under the rfphD-
lie as under the monarchy. But even " every
thing IS 10 march at the word Of civil function.
airy. still IT IS important that he should BE- well
informed and that the colonies should not be
made rs they lately were a side work for tho
Minister ~ the Marine. This Is the object ot ina
new separate Ministry for the Colonies
There stlll remains to be settled the terribly
vcNe.l question as To whether tho new Minister
shall also be at the head ~ the military govern
rlerf ~ the colonies which until now depended
directly on the Minister Of War. Unfortunately
IA, French who are 50 clear at bookkeeping
and law-making, are not equally practical at
securing unity ~ administration. But In any
case their parliamentary government with all
It's defects has scored another great success In
the direction ~ securing French commercial In
forests i'm Africa and the East