Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-07-02
coLonIzlNo NATIONS.
No Country So Successful as Great Britain
In Establishing Colonies.


A japanese paper, the Yorodzu Choho,
asks; "What, pray, have the Anglo
/ Saxons done when coloniziDg? Where
are the Tasmanians? How many black
fellows and Mao-is are alive today?
Where arc the wretched inhabitants Of
3 the islands along the eastern littoral of
British North America? Where are the
Hurons, Iroquois, MeDgwes, ChippewasG
Gone from the face Of the globe. Yes,
the Anglo.Saxons have been successful
colonizers. Their simple custom is 10
sweep away the aboriginal inhabitants
Of any desirable site and then ensconce
themselves in well earned content on
the soil. "
Such is the opinion of journal Of
Japan. However this may be, England
Us today the only European government,
except Holland, which has a larger
colonial than a home populations The
total population of the British empire,
including British protectorates in Asia
and Africa. was 1872, 900, 600 by the last
census, while the total population of
Great Britain by the same census was
only 9s, coo, 600. or 10 per cent In other
words the colonial possessions of Great
Britain were nine times larger than the
home country in respect to population.
Russia has extended to the east and
south its imperial boundaries. France,
in concert with England, has acquired
new colonies in Asia and Africa. Por-
tugal, Denmark and Holland have re-
tanned big colonies abroad, though the
extent Of the colonies Of the first have
been declining Of late years, while the
proportion Of colonists TO home inhab-
itants in Holland has declined during
! the last two centuries. But England
/ keeps steadily increasing. and Of late
/ there has been an addition to the num-
Der Of English colonies, while. on the
other hand, the Spanish colonies, in re
spect Of area and population, have been
declining.
Curiously enough, Italy, which has
an overAowing population and has con-
I tributed to the United States, to the
Argentine Republic and to other Amer
lean states thousands of hardy immi-
grants, has, in fact, no colonies of her
own, and the effort to establish protec-
torate in Abyssinia has ended disas-
/ trously. Still another European country
which would seem to have many facili
ties for colonization is Austria, but
/ there are no Austrian colonies and no
/ serious expansion Of the empire in any
direction. There is no accounting for
/ the existence Of 'colonizing spirit
among nations. One extends its powers
aud authority; an adjacent country
: doesn't. Sweden, for instance, has for
many years maintained colonies IN va
/ rious parts Of the world. Norway,
which adjoins il, never has. though the
NorwcCians are, perhaps, better sailors
even than the Swcdes Holland has al.
ways been a colonizing country, and at
testation Of this is to be found in the
/ city Of New York. Belgium was not a
colonizing country until recently, and
when the two We're associated together
the Belgium provinces Of Holland con-
tributed but few colonizers. There have
been many immigrants from Switzer-
I land; there have been no Swiss colo
uies The Mohammedan Arabs have
extended their rule; the Mohammedan
/ Turks never have. There have been
Greek settlements, but 10 Greek colo
MES The Anglo-Saxons, however, out
rank all others in respect Of colonial
ton, the English and Scotch especially.
New York sun.