The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
OUR PROPOSED TROPICAL COLONIES

ton to the Republican party, nave resoivea III laVor of holding all territory dominated by our arms Tn the brief Spanish
 Impassioned public speakers and reckless news paper writers have fed the flame by talking ot the naval and commercial value of colonial possessions in the tropics Human greed has been stimulated by overstatements of the of the hot islands we are asked to take under the flag, and Europe has not been slow to see the advantage of drawing us out of our impregnable continental position and pol icy and getting where we must be party to the quarres of the nations and the wars of the creeds
 By an illogical statement and misrepresentation of history the proposed possession of tropical colonies is put as the analogue of acquisition of Louis iana Florida, Texas and the land for which we paid Mexico after superior military strength had beaten down her weak guard and she vanquished.
 The land we took by these several processes was for the expansion of our continental possessions. It had upon 1t but few civilized people The red ln- dians were still lords of the so and as the United States gradually acquired the right of eminent do main over it, by treating with the tribes people, Ango-Sa and their congeners, fel- low citizens, members of body polite, settled upon it, planted there American institutions, admin istered by Americans and in due time on all that territory American states guaranteed a repub-
 can form of government, required by the Federal constitution All of this territory within the north temperate zone None of it was hot cold as to furnish physical conditions inmical to the Anglo-Saxon. Our race northern blood which first came before the footights of history the sur viva of unknown ages of struggle with the auserities o nature in the north, wherein the est had so sur vived that their prepotency is still in the thews and sinews of their postery was destined to flourish in the temperate zone It has not hourished elsewhere.
 Our extensions of territory from I8o6 to IS46 on1v a homogeneous people, where we could make American states and plant homes filled with the children of American parents trained in the ways and traditions of their fathers.
 The orators and writers who are holding out false hopes and false lights to the American people are spreading abroad the expectation that this process is to be repeated in the tropical islands are asked to hold This is deception, perhaps not always deliberate, but always deception. The Anglo Saxon race, race, cannot live in the tropics Adult individuals of that sustain life in the tropics, but Anglo-Saxon homes, wherein children are born to take the places of their sres are inn possible under vertical sun, for the white child does not grow to be strong adult
 This fact is so well established in anthro biology and ethnology that it is beyond controversy. The experiment of founding Ango-Saxon colonies in the tropics had been tried long before time, and failed wretchedly.
 The last one was the close of the seventeenth century William Paterson the Scotchman to whom Great Britain the scheme of the Bank of Eng land, fired by the and profits of the British East India Company, organized Scotch company to plant Scotch colony the Isthmus of Daren It was gltterng lure. This colony to found a state, nation, which, by commanding the isthmus to dominate the oriental trade, that prize which Wisby lost to Venice to be snatched in turn by Genoa and Amsterdam.
 The shares were eagerly taken by the Lowand Scotch and the expedition sailed in the midst of cheers and enthusiasm. The colony was planted and rosy tales went back to Auld Reekie of the growth of New Edinburgh"
 Let Macaulay describe what followcd
 Nothing happened but what might easily have been foreseen The company had, in childish iance on the word of enthusiastic protector, and r defiance of facts known to every educated man in Europe taken 1t for granted that emigrants born and bred within degrees of the Arctic circle would enjoy excellent health within 10 degrees of the equa tor Nay, statesmen and scholars had been deluded into the belief that country which, as they might have read in books SO common as Hakluyt and Purchas, noted among tropical countries for its nsalubrity and had been abandoned by the Spaniards was Montpelier.
 "Nor had any of Paterson's dupes considered how colonsts from Fife and Lothian who had never in their lives known what it to feel the heat of distressing midsummer day, could endure the labor of breaking cods and carrying burdens under the fierce blaze of vertical sum-.
 After disease and death had prostrated the enter prise Macaulay describes the closing scenes:
 Those who were not laid on their beds were yell low, lean, feeble, hardly able move the sick and to bury the dead The cry of the whole community was. that death all around them, and that they must while they still had strength to weigh an- chor or spread sail, fly to less fatal region. The men and provisions equally distributed among three ships-the Caledonia, the Unicorn and the St. Andrew Paterson, though too i'll to sit in the council begged hard that he might be left be- hind, with twenty thirty men, to keep tip show of possession and await the next arrivals from Scot land But his offer disregarded He was car ried the St Andrew and the vessels stood out to sea. The voyage horrible. Scarcely any Guinea slaveship has ever had such middle passape