Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1901-12-31
MAKING or COLG4IEs
The Country Just Now E. gagged
in Study Of Me'hTIs
One of the Essentials in lccessful
Colony Building is &c Roads.
Along These People llvel to
New Life.

Washington. Dec. aO.-Th'Gdmprove-
ment of the material, rnenta-Thd moral
condition OF the people OF airTlony. and
the methods applied by sutWssful col
onizins governments in tssf work is
the subject of chapter IN the work
on Colonial AGministratioI27ust issued
by the treasury bureau Nstatistics.
TO answer this in siniZ question
would be: The inToductiIShnd extern
sion OF modern civilizat7 and en-
Iisntsnment. To answer II IN detail
would be u show what { q great colo
nizing countries OF the wa-t have done
for the advGEC cement of 1feir colonies
during the nineteenth ceFfry-the in
PRODUCTION OF roads, railvy.ts, irrigation
works, river and harbor IMPROVEMENTS.
and through them the 9 ielopment OF
production and thus OF ahterial pros
perity; the encourageIc-At OF com
mercc and the adoptiorJbf improved
conditions of life; the \ Enlistment of
reliable ana permanens forces of cur
rcacy with proper bt-tdrg facilities
for the encouragenerJS thrift among
the natives: the estatI lhmenI % pos
tai and telegraph se;Ate FOR the en-
couragement CT asFommunication
among the people of y colony and be-
J tween them and the tside world, the
establishment of Sex hship lines 70
connect the colony fifth the home
country and the ci sfZed world; the
encouragement OF e'ncation through
schools. colleges. nes'Gpapers. libraries
and churches; the establiahmcnt and
proper adH.inistratih Of laws ana reg
ulations by which public safety and
/ order are assured.
When it Is consI cred that in India
! alone where ro Is were unknown
when the British BVernment assumed
/ control. there ere tIoM 10000 miles of
road. Of which o er 100000 are met
| allsd;" that The always in the Brit
ish colonies now tgrcgate Sc. 549 miles.
| against 80 COO in BS5. a growth in hf-
| teen years exceeding the entire dis
| lance around theearth; mat the .T'Tiga-
| ton canals and bther works o. India
ere $1,000 miles b extent, and the area
! irrigated by all hethods exceeds thirty
million acres, AID that although they
nave cost aDout400 million rupees. the
/ value OF sinCiyear's crop in the irri-
gated district Dove that which it
could produce / years of drought is
more than the Htire cost of the canals,
the importanct of these public works
for the develo kent of agriculture and
| commerce viii ke apparent.
When it is, hrther considered that
the. commerce bf the British colonies
alone has grrh from over 300 million
dollars in 1851 y 900 million dollars in
1900, their ID lOpment under the fos-
tering care . In Intelligent method of
government III the consequent benefit
to the nativtlhs well as the consuming
world viii I appreciated. The fact
that the III ish colonies were able to
import liz million dollarsi worth o.
food. clothjk, and the comforts OF civ
ilized life lOm other parts Of the
world in 2, against 40 million dol
lars wora in 1850: the French colo
MES leo Ir-iion dollars worth in 1893
against s4nillion dollars worth in
1Ss7-an Grease Of 72.5 per cent in
twelve y, fs-stiN further emphasizes
the in4ased earning capacity of
those co Iies and affords some meas
ure Of t,'ir improved material condi-
ton
Whenf Il further realized that the
amountUandinS to the credit OF depos-
itora i:t;avings banks in the British
coionietllone. which amounted to 1873
nillionhbiiars in 1885. had increased to
2SS mitpns in 1889. an additional evil
denoe II the growth of prosperity and
thrift imong the people Of the colonies
will bEpparcnt. When it is seen from
offioie3 reports that in India alone the
numlf of postoffices has grown from
753 iT1 S56 to 29,I22 in 1893. and that the
numer of pieces received by the post
ofncs increased from IS million in 1850
to q million in 1899. the development
| of iterconmunication and of mental
as Ell as business activity among the
peok may be to some extent meas
ure- Still another evidence of the
sag is seen in the fact that the teIe-
grph lines in the British colonies have
grim from 115.GCG miles in 1889 to over
1880 miles in 1899. thus increasing
tlar length in Z single decade by more
tan the distance around the earth;
al that the telephone lines IN those
,Ionies now aggregate more than So
q miles in length. When ii is further
onsidercd that the total number of
lgipils in the schools of India alone is
gov nearly 100000. against about g.
100000 in 1888, and that the expendi-
ifure FOR public instruction was. in 1899,
iS6.215,000 rupees. against 1874. eco rupees
in 1858. the growth of education and
educational facilities will be to some ex-
tent realized, while additional evidence
of the general Intelligence will be
found in the fact that the number OF
vernacular newspapers published in
India in 1887 was 1913. and the number
of books and magazines published in
Nj