The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-22

subject TO the parent state or independ-
ent of it. England. Holland, France
and Spain, when they founded colonies
beyond the sea founded them for the
good of the parent state. and governed
them as dependencies. The home coun-
try might treat her colonies we'll or
i'll; she might cherish and guard them,
or Cypress them with harshnesS and Sc
verify, but she never treated them as
equals Russia. in pushing her obscure
and barbarous conquest and colonial
ton OF Siberia-a conquest destined to
be of such lasting Importance in the
history OF Asia-purSued precisely the
same course
Footing of Equality.
In fact, this had been the only kind
OF colonization known 10 modern Eu-
rope In the ancient world il had also
been known, and it was only through it
thaC great empires grew Each Ro-
man colony that settled in Gaul or
Iberia founded a city or established a
province which was tributary TO Rome
instead of standing on a footing of
equality in the same nation with Rome
But the other great colOnizing peoples
of antiquity, the Greeks and Phoen-
icians, spread in an entirely different
way. Each of their colonies became alb
solutely independent of the country
whence it sprang. Carthage and SYRIA
cuSe were as free as Tyre or SidOn. as
COrinth or Athens. Thus, under the
Roman method, the empire grew at the
cost of the colonies losing their indie
pendence. Under the Greek and Garth
aginian method the colonies acquired
the same freedom that was enjoyed by
the mother cities; but there was no ex-
tension of empire; no growth of a
great and enduring nationality. The
modern European nations had followed
the Roman system. Until the United
States sprang into being, every great
onlnnfzino
or the other.
Free Government.
THE American republic, taking ad-
lures and of its strong central govern
nlent, boldly struck cut on new path,
which secured the freedom giving
properties of the Greek methods. while
preserving national union as carefully
as il was preserved by the Roman en-
pire- New states were created, which
stood on exactly the same footing as
the old; and yet these new states form
ed integral and inseparable parts of a
great and rapidly growing nation This
movement was original with the Ameri-
can republic. She was dealing with
history of England merely taught her
what to avoid The English colonies
were subject to a British crowd, and
therefore to Great Britain. The new
american States, themselves colonies
the old Greek sense, were subject only
to a government which they helped ad-
minister on equal terms with the old
states. No state was subject to an
other. new or old. All paid a common
allegiance to a central power which
was identical with none.
1.-THE absolute novelty of this feature
as the world then stood fails to i'm
press us now because we are now used
to it. ButFit was at that time without
precedent; and though since then the
idea has made rapid progress, there
seems in most cases 10 have been very
great difficulty in applying it in prac-
tice. The SDanish-American states
proved wholly unable to apply it at all.
In Australia and South Africa all that
can be said is that events now aDDar-
emily show a trend in the direction of
adopting this system. At present all
these British colonies, as regards one
another, are independent, but dis
united; as regards the mother coun-
try, they remain united with her, but
in the condition of dependence