The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-04-13
THE RESULTS OF EXPANSION.

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amounted to $515, 600, 900. This
is the greatest sum ever raised III
one year by that government; but
large as it is, the civil branch
thereof receives only $165, 0OO, 900,
the balance of this great SUM,
$3.50, 900, 900, going to the army
and navy. 1t is estimated, that
in order to make up for deficien-
cies, the taxes of various kinds,
onerous and grinding as they are,
must be increased. With it's
overlooking population and con-
slant difficulty of obtaining en-
ployment, and the high price of
provisions, this means much to
poor people of that country
Ever since the year 1907, when
Britain first adopted policy of
colonization, planting it's initial
dependency at Jamestown, Vir-
GINA, the greed of acquiring adj
ditional territory has been it's
animating and constant principle,
until now after having extended
it's authority in every quarter of
the inhabitable globe, it is her
proud boast that the sun never
sets on her possessions; and, if we
may judge by the activity mani
lfested by her at all times in gath
ering in lands on pretended
claims, whose owners are too
weak to defend them, we may
reasonably infer that this policy
is to be indefinitely continued !;
and that she is only at the begin
ming of her career of conquest.
Egypt she in reality possesses as
truly as she does Canada, and she
is extending her dominions far up
the Nile, beyond it's borders and
into the heart of Central Africa,
driving out the French from
Fashoda, whose title thereto is
really as good as Britain's. She
is also working northward from
her colonies In South Africa, dis
putting the claims of the Dutch
China she is eagerly
watching, ready, when the inevi-
table hour of ACKNOWLEDGMENT ar
rives, to step in and tear off the
British lions share, if indeed
she does not seize all that is
worth having.
But i'll most instances the do
mains appropriated by this rapa-
cious land pirate, have been those
formerly in the possession of the
colored or inferior races, if we
except India whose inhabitants
belong to the Aryan race; and it
cannot be denied that her rule
over conquered territory has been
benefcent. She has really acted
i'll the spirit ascribed to her in
Kipling's spoem, "Take up the
White Mans Burden"
But Notwithstanding she has
performed philanthropic part,
though frequently against the
will of the people brought under
her dominion, in giving good gov
eminent and justice to commu-
mites which previously never
knew the meaning of these terms,
it is more than probable that in
comforting these benefits she her.
self has suffered harm. Her cas-
tern possessions, especially India,
are hot-beds of pestilence and re-
bellion, as the bones cf thousands
and thousands of once sturdy
Britons bleaching under tropi-
cal sun, will testify. The COM
mercial advantages that have ac-
crued to her by these acquisitions,
have not been at all commensu-
rate with the cost of gaining and
maintaining them in subsection,
as the expense of the stupendous
and ever-increasing army, navy,
ard civil service establishment
for the colonies readily proves.
Germany, upon British soil, is
disputing for commercial suprem-
acy with the latter country.
Even in religion which certain
Jealous but ignorant ministers
consider the most valid reason for
expansion, the established church
of England has made COMPARE
lively little progress.
The heather after being unjust
ly deprived of their governments
cling with greater tenacity to what
is left of them-their ancient
spiritual beliefs. All religions, as
experience demonstrates, flourish
best under adverse conditions.
This is'another case of the contest
between the sun and North Wind
as narrated by Aesop.
The old proverb, CHARITY be-
gins at home," we believe to be
based upon the surrounding prin-
ciples of reason and justice. Why