New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-19
THECONTROLOF THETROPICS
VAST PROSPECTS OPENED TO THIS
COUNTRY BY THE POLICY OF
EXPANSION

Benjamin Kidd in The Atlantic Monthly.
To take up the threads We must SO little AZ.
tanoe lack 10 where find Spain oonfrontin :
oTer%hen.ing advantaee on The Side Of the former
country. Slowly the outwardly stronger poweL,
goes down. and toward the end OF the eighteen, p
century T. is France with Spain behind her. whieh
stands confronting England Throughout me wo,n,
Even yet historians have scarcely faihomeo me ne
meaning Of the great struggle that eliminated IN
what Is known as the Napoleonic wars Up to r..
only English historian who has risen 10 the philo.
sophcsl position Of seeing that that confess wsS n
her had ioined with England for the future Of the
word-a duel in which the real ISSUE Mas ~ne.I i,
which Encland had become identified was 10 es Pre-.
DOM ant The whole Eapoleonm efS as iSe1s
p3nsion Of the Enssh pflncp PIE anq nroe Se
cause ne reeiized tnat he coud not otherwise 0o"'
nous. Ii is impossible 10 give figures which would
bring home to The miro he real extent Of ne Sso
Britains population Was about seventeen mii ,i
But before peace was restored mat compare i've
snail nation at a period when money was very
scarce and OF higher value than u is now. had
incurred 4 nstonai debt OF about s4o"ojoUW
RESULTS OF THE ANGLo-LATIN CONFLICT
It Is no, vet perceived IN America that ore OF the
principal results Of this prolonged strugele nas
been not the secession OF Inc nee ana Of the
nature of Development, but rather tina, The Ncrt
a1 9n 5G Of the ard 9fffhs s S asY
inheritance OF that cont cen. belongs - the type
Of civilization which the Unite. states no" repre-
But 10 present the history o! this development IN
It's mex: chapter have to take large canvas
FOR it is necessary to md room for the whole Norm
American continent Looking al the map Oh Hot ~
America Immediately before the period wnen me
United states began its career as Nauon We
have remarkable spectacle htts iri r D,,r 0l
her occupied the territory along the Atlantic sea
board The French occupen the broad hinSe srs
possession in the South. they held also the great
territories along tho Pacific seaboard. TINS Eng-
nsh-speaking territory Is little more than patch
on the na1. surrounded by territories peionehg
70 orc or other of almost all the leading Powers
% Europe Yet We look again toward ihe end Oh
the nineteenth century, and wonderfui translol
nation has aiken place later and vaster chapter
OF the world-movoinent. Of which had the open
ing chapters in another hemisphere has been en-
acted. North south. west. from Atlantic to Pa
cinc from sea board to seaboard. the great wave
OF English speaking civilization has nowed' s .
merging. nay CELEBRATING. a.! other rorms. ,.No'
square mile OF territory. once won. mas ever oeen
given back. -, ,sA.ls.
The meaning OF Washinctons Farewell Addres,, ;:
delivered when the United States contained on,I
about six million people. surrounded on every slde
hv hostile Powers and hostile natural conditions.
appears be lost when the sly million nave EroW WI
70 seventy million. and are already reckoning me
dav when they will be two hundred mlIhoh ne
people whom Henry Adams Described as hVlng AZ
The beginning of the nineteenth century IN an $50
lation like that Of the Jutes and Angles OF the M
century have tanned continent have covered u
with vast network Of the most m5gnincent "a =,
and most homogeneous Nation the foce of the
earth with a great world-movement behlnd ~ ana
certainly great world-part in Inc future before
II is because the man in the western states TO-
dav In n dim Instructive way reaizcs thesee
things because he has himself been in the midst OF
this development. and has even been factor IN
f. that he seems be willing TO take the risk
which more theoretical minds hesitate at That
closer a the matter is only to have the Importance
Of it brought home with increased force