Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-05-08
COLONlZlNG NATIONS.
No Country So Successful as Great Britain
In Establishing Colonies.

No Country So Successful an Great Britain
In Establishing Colonies.
\ Japanese paper, the Yorodzu Choho,
asks: "What, pray, have the Anglo
Saxons dcne when colonizing? Who're
are tho Tasmarians? How many black
fellows and Macris are alive today?
Where arc the wretched inhabitants of
the islands along the eastern littoral of
British North America? Where arc tho
Hurous, noquois, Mengwes, Chippewas?
Conc from the face of the globe. Yes
the Anglo Saxons have been successful
colonizers. Their simple custom is to
sweep away the aboriginal inhabitants
of any desirable site and then ensconco
themselves i'll we'll earned content on
the soil -
Such is the opinion Of q journal Of
Japan. However this may be, England
is today the only European government
except Holland, which has a larger
colonial than home population. Tho
total population of the British empire,
including British protectorates in Asia
aud Africa, wa.ss3S3, 900, 900 by the last
census, whilo the total population of
Great Britain by the same census was
only IS, 900, 900, or 10 per cent. In other
words, the colonial possessions of Great
Britain were nine times larger than the
homo 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 tho 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 OVERLOOKING population and has con-
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 u protec-
torate in Abyssinia has ended disas-
trously. Still another European country
Il. i
ties for colonization is Austria, but
there are no Austrian colonies and no
serious expansion of the empire i'll any
direction. There is no accounting for
the existence of 'colonizing spirit"
among nations One extends its powers
and authority; III adjacent country
doesn't. Sweden, for instance, has for
many years maintained colonies i'll va
rious parts of the world. Norway,
which adjoins it, never has, though the
Norwegians are, perhaps, better sailors
even than the Swedes. 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 q
colonizing country until recently, and
when the two were associated together
the Belgium provinces of Holland con-
tributed but few coloDizers. There have
been many immigrants from Switzer-
land; there have been no Swiss colo
MES. The Mohammedan Arabs have
extended their rule; the Mohammedan
Turks never have. There have been
Greek settlements, but no Greek colo
MES The Anglo Saxons, however, out
rank all others in respect of colonial.
ton, the English and Scotch especially.
New York Sun.