The evening times., 1898-10-10

Should the United States add the Phil
ippines and Porto Rico to the Hawaiian
Islands. which have already been annex
ed, this country would rank fifth in i'm
portance in colonial powers of the world.
Only Great Britain. France, Germany
and Holland have colonial possessions
that are more popuious and more valua-
BILE. Spain.. which is now fifth as colo
nial power, would have to take lower
rank.
With the annexation of the Hawaiian
Islands the United States increased its
area LOT square miles and added about
10000 to its population. The Philippines
would add ia. 326 square miles to the
area under Uncle Sans dominion and
about 100000 10 the population that
claims his protection. Little Porto Rico
has an area of 1850 square miles and
sos aS people. Hawaii is now on the list
of United States colonial possessions,
but there is every reason to believe that
other islands, and valuable ones, too, are
soon to be added.
Great Britain. of course. leads all the
nations of. the world in colonial posses
sions. Indeed. the Queen of England
ard Empress Of India rules over great
er colonial population than is subject to
all the other nations combined. Truly
enough may it be said that the sun never
sets on the soil of Great Britain; for in
every ocean and every sea there are ISL
ands big and little. whose people owe
allegiance TO the Queen.
She has colonies, dependencies, and
protectorates throughout the world,
and, collecting all the provinces of
the Dominion of Canada and all the
province OF British India into one group
/ for each, there are no less than sixty
islands and territorial divisions to be
! found in the list OF British colonial pos
J sessions. Some of them are colonies
I possessing free constitution and hay-
I ing a responsible government, such as
/ the Dominion of Canada and most of
/ the Australian provinces. Others are
! colonies in which the legislature
! is partly elective and partly con-
/ trelled by the governor, such as
! British Guiana and Bermuda: others
! are crown colonies, ruled directly by
} appointees of the imperial government,
such India, to which country young
! Curzon is soon 10 be sent as governor
/ general: some are dependencies subor-
! dinate to the government Of others. ard
/ few are protectorates, internally IN
/ dependent, but subject TO British con-
! troll by treaty or otherwise.
From the latest statistics published il
1 appears that the British empire cH-
tends over II, 80 900 square miles, of
which only I2l II5 are in the small ISL
ands which are the home of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Oueen Victoria is ruler over 4O0.0o,FJ
people, and only IS, l64, ,g75 of them dwell
within the confines Of the United King
! dom In 1881 the revenues of Great Brit
/ ain and her colonies were about 81
! GOlOOO while the share raised in the
/ United Kingdom was only hah lne
! amount.
/ India. Australia and Canada are. of
| course the richest OF England > posses
sions In the provinces OF India the
/ oueen's realm extends over more than
! 800 600 square miles of territory ana
! through her viceroy she rules 2S'oo ,eJo
people The Canadian possessions cover
? 40 600 square miles, and the Canadian
subjects number nearly 5.5yl.0Oo souls, In
| Australia the Queen has 5.5Oo.e" loyal
subjects. 1t is the largest island in the
! world-euualing in size the United States.
| including Alaska and being twenty-siS
times as large as the little England that
| rules It
The rest of Great Brirain's colonial pos
| sessions are not, territoriaiiy. 50 I'M
portant In the English and Irish Chan
nels are the Isle of Man. Jersey and
| Guernsey: in the Mediterranean are Cd
braltar and Maltese and Cyprus Islands;
in the Gulf of Alden is a group OF de-
tendencies; in the Indian Ocean are Cey-
Ion and a few minor islands: in Asia are
India and the Straits Settlements; in the
Asiatic Archipelago are HongkonG. North
Rorneo and I-abuan Island, and in the
Pacific the British flag floats over New
Zealand and the Fijis: on the American
continent. besides Canada. Britain holds
sway over Newfoundland. Guiana and
Honduras: in the North and South At
lantic are dozen such islands as Ber-
muda. Bahama Jamaica ana Barbados
and added to all these are millions OF
miles of English territory, and the mil
lions of British subjects in Darkest At
rica The smallest of England 5 posses
Sions but at the same time one OF the
most important is Gibraltar. which in
cludes only one and nine-tenths square
miles. and is the home of $500 people.
Next to England France holds the mos
important colonial possessions. The tota
French colonial territory is about 2,I5o0o
| square miles. and the population is prac
| tically 40 600 The most important o
| the French dependencies are Algeria
Madagascar. French Soudan and Frencf
! Congo, Tunis which is a protectorate
French Indo-China, comprising AMMAN
| also protectorate; Cambodia protector
1 atpl, Cochin CHINA ana III lii'
latter are 12,ee0 600 people, and in Frencf
| Congo more than half that number. AL
geria has a population of 100000 ant
Madagascar 3,5Go.6eo The African ant
Asiatic possessions -of France are TN
largest and most troublesome and wouif
fully warrant the home government IL
keeping a large standing army If the Ger
man frontier were thousands of miie
away. Among the French American
Observation-Disclosures now rules Canada
where France was once supreme-are Cay
enne Cwhere the pepper comes from)
Martinique and St Pierre and the Mique
lon Islands.
Germany's colonies as compared witt
/ those of England are somewhat insignifi
cant They cover about l05O.009 squar
miles most of the territory being in AT
rica and not being mentioned often in tn
! DISPATCHES In the Cameroons are $500,
900 people ruled by the young war lord
and In German East Africa are 1000. 90
more. In the Pacific Germany holds tn
Bismarck and Marshall Archipelago
Kaiser Wilhelm's Land and the Solomon
Islands.
Spain has more colonies now than sh
will have in a few weeks. The most valu
able of the islands over which once float
ed the red and yellow stripes are tn
Philippines. Cuba and Porto Rico. TIL
last named will belong to the Unite
States Cuba will be free IL it behave
itself and the Philippines may go wit