The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-21
GERMAN COLONIES.

OF making purely German colonies.
For years the United States have been
the goal towards which the surplus
population of Germany has set in a
steady stream, with the result that N
a generation or two the German char
acteristics has disappeared and pure
American have taken their place, the
naming in the patronymic, and that,
itself, being often corrupted. 1t is
the same with any nationality that
goes to the States, in the third genera
ton it is completely assimilated and
the assimilation frequently occurs in
the second.
The emigration law, recently sub
mitted to the Reichstag, has for one
of it's aims the diversion of the stream
of German emigration from the United
States to purely German colonies,
which are to remain German in their
characteristics and not lose them as
tn ; Germans do who go to the United
States. In point of fact Germany has
initiated distinct colonizing policy.
Besides the German colonists in
Africa there is a strong movement to
establish large agricultural and indus
trial colonies in South and in Central
America. The German Government is
prepared to assist with money grants
any companies which will undertake
such q scheme, and the outcome has
been the organization of the Hanseatic
Colonization Company. This company
has a capital of 100000, marks, and
has acquired rights to 100000 acres
of land in Brazil
The history of Anglo Saxon and
other European colonial experiments
in Brazil has, up to the present, been
extremely unsatisfactory and, save as
a pivot to hang grievance against the
Brazilian Government when it may be
convenient, it is doubtful if much ben
eft may be obtained from any further
experiments in that direction.
4 certain DR.. Koch, who has been
visiting Mexico, is advocating the es-
Establishment of German agricultural
colonies in that country and thinks
that it will be for the mutual benefit
of Mexico and Germany, as they will
counteract the present Americanizing
tendency in that country. He claims,
according to an interview published in
the San Francisco Chronicle, that
without some intervention of this
kind, Mexico will be completely Amer
icanized in less than fifty years,
This new departure in Germany to
try and establish an extensive colonial
system will undoubtedly have a great
influence upon certain parts of the
world. 1t is for this that the Secre-
tary of the Navy asked for that large
addition to the German fleet, to which
allusion was made in these columns a
few days ago. He said I'VE need them
1.-THE ships) to defend our position as
a world Empire"
The results of such policy can only
be ascertained after fifty years or a
century of experiment. 1t is hard to
predicate from what we now know,
what the success may be. But of this
one may be sure, no colonies will be
successful unless they are left free to
work out their own salvation untram-
melled by bureaucratic and military
control. When either of these elements
come into play they initiate against
the success of the colonists and cramp
the growth of the true colonizing
spirit.
For the present, in the Pacific, it is
only in the southern part that German
influence will be felt, but we'll estab-
lished there, who can tell how far it
may spread up north and what effect
it may have upon the political position
of the Hawaiian islands. This is yet
another argument to be laid before the
thinkers of the United States. Fore
sight and clear political foresight
sweeps over future possibilities for
many years ahead and prepares to
meet whatever is likely to occur. If
the United States do not help them
selves now to the commanding posi-
ton which is in their grasp they may
feel assured that there are other
countries who will lay their plans
for acquiring what they miss. German
influence at the moment is as nothing,
politically, on the islands, but let Ger
man colonization schemes be carried
out as the German Emperor dreams of
and German influence, politically, may