The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-12-28
TEUT0NS EAGERE!
FOR EXPANSION
Colonial Politics interests
KaiSef'S Subjects.
MORE AGGRESSIVE ACTION URGED.
Extension of Trade influence Be-
You'd Present German Deepen
denotes Desired Annexation
of Territory Considered.

The aggressiveness of the Germans in
colonial enterprises. is told in receut
report to the State Department by t.:nesI
L. Harris, M ed States consular agent
at EIbenstock He speaks OF the foreign
commerce OF German colonies and says
that the empires share in the exports of
her own colonies is only 50 per cent. while
Of all the products required by the colo
MES, the mother country supplied but so
per cent. Great Britain, either directly
or through the medium OF her colonies,
has monopoly OF almost half the com
merce of the German depend ncies-
FutherIand and Colony.
The ideal relations between n colony
and the mother country" says the con-
suIar agent, are those whiel permit the
colony 10 produce the raw material, which
the mother country receives and sends
back in d manufactured state; but in
accordance with an Irresistible law Of
economics, a colony with great material
! resources will gradually emancipate itself
from the mother country. 1t is doubtful.
however. whether this viii shortly be true
Of any OF the present colonies Of Germany.
In almost every part of the world
where her acquisitions are situal ed, there
is in the Immediate neighborhood colony
OF Great Britain OF of some other g0un-
try which is better able TO produce colo
NAL products German East Africa hits
fOr its neighbor on the north British East
Africa, with the harbor OF ZANZIBAR; on
the west, the Congo Free State, which the
Congo River inteTsects, afording natural
advantages Of transportation. The re-
INC
tropical products, too, will immensely as
sist those colonies on the road 20 material
progress.
The commercial development OF Ger
man Southwest Africa viii one day prob
ably be retarded by the competition and
aggTessiyeness OF Cape Colony"
The Kaiser's Colonies.
The German colonies OF today are as
follows: East Africa. KameTun, Togo,
Southwest Africa. New Guinea, Caroline
Islands, PeIIew Islands, Marianne Islands,
Marshall Islands, Samoa. and Kyao-chau.
The territory comprised in all these
colonies amounts TO ? sal 600 sQua y miles.
/ They have a white population OF 600S.
OF which only 3,S77 are Germans Not a
single one of these colonies is self-Sup-
porting. The total income for 1900 from
tariff duties, etc, amounted 10 Ss.Z26, 40.
WING tNE OtUClt reached the sum u
S6.S71. 922
= German ESpanSIonIst
DIT. Vosberg-Rekow. director of the
Bureau for the Preparation OF CONNER
ciaI Treaties. IN a speech before the mer-
chants Of Leipzig. among other things
said
1t is evident that we can never give
up our present policy relative to foreign
affairs, OF the strenuous efforts being
made te become a great sea power We
must engage il colonial politics on large
scale We must strive to expand our
spheres of interest and to instin in our
! people the Consciousness of the Geces-
sity Of an aggressive policy Il is only
by the annexation OF territory beyond the
seas, the development of our colonies,
the organization and direction OF iHi-
grafton TO the same that We may ever
hope 10 be in position to supply these
natural products which We are not able
to produce within the borders OF the
home country