New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-03
AMERICA IN A NEW ROLE.
1T FINDS ITSELF THE NEW POWER IN
THE ORIENT.

THE coLoNIzING NATIONS OF THE WORLD IN
THE PAST AND PREsENT-THEIR POSSES
sIoNs AND THEIR PoLIcIEs
Washington July CspeciaD-The question as to
whether the United States shall become cooniz-
ing Nation suggests the lessons 20 be learned
from history. ancient and modern and The conci-
ton ot this country 10 avail itself % the exam
pies set by other Powers. The great colonizer OF
the remote past Greece T. sent out from lis
separate city states-Athens Sparta Corinth and
others-large numbers OF hardy. brilliant and
shrewd coonlsts who founded dependent conmrn
ties. and sometimes sovereign governments. along
the borders OF the Fgean. Mediterranean and
Black Lbya. in North Africa. contained
some OF these and Marseilles In Gaul. was an
other. The Hellenes voyager. soldiers and
merchants. and restlessy carried everywhere they
went the gems Of Hellenic art and civilization
The great masters OF the world who conquered
Greece and its colonies at later period were
chiefly warriors and politicians The Romans Dor
rowed the best OF their ideas IN literature and
philosophy from the Greeks. as the Greeks had
done with a difference from the Egyptians The
Cartha gnlans ard their ancestors the Phenicians.
chiefly merchants and navzators They were
not Ike the Greeks. great humanizers and com
monwealth builders Their work did not endure
long and Il was not such refined work at best.
The Egyptians and Hndoos the Babylonians and
Assyrtans were not. In the full sense. colonizing
peoples Assyria. that bitter and hasty nation.
crushed all that came in rs way. ruthless con-
queror until II FELL itself in a single night cult
ure Il is true -adiated from those seats Of most
ancient dominion Egypt and Chaldna. but II was
not much distributed IN colonies "a cihused
through learned men who visitors from
various parts ~ the earth.
THE ENGLISH POLICY AND THE SPANISH
In modern times the great colonizer has been
England. While Spain. using the science and
faith Of Italy discovered America, The United
Kingdom peoDied the northern part OF the CONT
nent ard settled distant Australasia Is colonies
extend almost from pole 70 pole and enc!rcle the
globe Spain In the DAYS OF the great Emperor
Charles V. had ne grandest possessic rs eyer held
In the civilized world. only 70 lose them IN three
centuries and a hall While England established
everywhere cvli order and good government, spain.
with barbar,c faulty. sought 70 wiring gold out OF
the sweat and blood 81 the colonies she founded
7. was the difference between the modern man
and the redlavalist between the yeoman and the
soldier % fortune Seven centuries ~ mortal con-
rict between the cross and the crescent had per-
ve-ted the best elements IN the Old Gothic ard
cal,-rbe-ian natures The Spanlart had become
higo,ed fosszod brutalized. The Spanish con-
gues,ador invoked his saint and slaughtered his
foe It was a dwarfed and bastard culture that
Spain disseminated. In the tropics there was
small chance even ,or that 20 expand The Eng
lshman set I'd freedom u conscience. the span
lard the Inquistion. The Englishman sent the
torch o, enlightenment into the wilderness the
suania-d darkness and superstition. The Eng
ishrnen on distant shores struck on The letters
and freed n,en's minds and bodies. the spaniard
rod the rack and the dungeon and the gar
ro,e First 20 establish borough representation In
ne legislative chamber Spain was ne last 70
give 70 her coonlsts even the mockery % auton-
omy
THE COLONIES OF OTHER POWERS.
7. England with more than eighty-hve times "a
much colony as mo;herand. IL easily the princi-
pal colonist o, the world Germany, with rapid
strides is preparing 70 be a good second Al
present the colonial possessions % England are
l6 o1sS square miles. with a colonial population
o., r. go 90 France comes next. with 2.55co
square miles and 10000 population. Germany is
,h!rt having only recently entered upon career
q colonization In a shor; time she has acquired
1887 square miles OF colony. containing popu-
lation % $4,000 The Official statement issued re-
c.ntly by the STATE Department shows that only
Great Britain France Holland and Portuga! have
more inhabitants IN their colonial POSSESSES Ions and
pro;ec;oraes han ,here a 49, a. rom a, cd nss
MIS- though she - hfth FL population Of colonies
Spain. has nearly double ne territorial extent t q
colonies The same semark II rue OF Holland.
colonial system of The spanish nation
AMERICA THE NEW FACTOR IN THE EAST.
The Spanish Anerican war Ike lis immediate
predecessor The Chino-Japanese war. doubtless
revoutionizes ne Eastern question No longer
90 We hear o., Turkey and the Danube. II is a
matter OF the conquest u the Philippines the
partition OF China. the probable absorption OF
Corea thar rerDexes Cabinets. A new Power
arises
and may ,ake par; IN The adjustment = commerce
ana territory In The orient The new Power IL not
Japan but H. United states
F-Ou, m. DAYS Z the Far vel Address the ira
,li,iou and practice have h.en 70 regard this Re
,ublIr as Grlra once regarded herself-as segre-
sltrd from the rest - mankind. The United States
Vas considered and considered itself as having
rnfhing 10 g. WIZ .he affairs y Europe and Asia
Tov-ev was ordered - destroy the Manila squad
ron" Of -pair-tna all thar SEEMS % nave changed
ir me forrgccr Z glorious May day.
Bsr1re me destruction - Admi-a. Montojos heet
thrre had been congu~sts and peacefl acquistions
~ territory by tne nlird states The purchase or
louisiana Territory. the annexation y Florida
re Mexico ard california. ne puro 2ase o.,
Aia.ka had all brought vast additions 70 ire Ma
.to-.s h0ri-~ possessions None ~ these tnirg "a
80 ha.r done In the dark. AL OF them rad cost
,raasur4 and some - them had only come AFTER
the sxDer iiture % both blood and treasure
CONDITIONS SUDDENLY CHANGED
Put they had beer incorporated as American