The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-27

new turn In the endeavor for com
mon action among the colonies Of
Great Britain, and in Germany's desire
to hold together her former subjects
| Who have emigrated- The formation
| Of the new German Empire and is
rise to a power Of the first rank has
been accompanied by an astonishing
| commercial and Industrial develop
ment; If has led. too. TO the establish
ment of compulsory military service
| for. all by the nations on the con
tineut- Germany's belated greed for
foreign colonies. like that Of France
could be gratiied only in tropical
lands Great Britain had already tax
en- the pick Of the earth
The pre- eminence in commerce and
the start in manufactures which Great
Britain had at the beginning Of the
Napoleonic wars il has retained
throughout the century. The change
from wooden sailing vessels TO iron
steamships came when the United
States, her chief competitor, was busy
with the civil war; and neither the
British iron vessels nor the steel YES
sells that have taken their place have
been caught up with. With her manu-
features she has controlled the mar
kets OF the world, but at the end of
the century she has eager rivals, who
are fast overhauling her. During the
century she has not only strengthened
her hold on her rich empire in India,
but her sons have succeeded in set
ting and developing the great Canadi-
an and Australian colonies. Remem-
bering the lesson of 1875. she has
conceded TO them substantial indepen-
dence.
Russia, the riddle of the beginning.
is still the riddle o. the end of the
century. Europe is not yet all Cossack.
but the danger seems as great as il
did TO Napoleon. In the last fifty years
Russia's progress in Asia has been
amazing. She has oyerrun Central
Asia to the Chinese boundary and TO
the edge of India, and the railroad has
followed close on the heels of her
Cossacks. She has built railroad
across Siberia and is settling the coun-
try rapidly, and she has eaten into
the northern rim of the Chinese EN-
pire. She has established nanufac-
lures and is developing exhaustless
natural resources. Her immense ter
ritory is all within the temperate zone,
II is contiguous, and there seems no
reason WHY this century should not
see Russian growth to the eastward
as remarkable as that of the United
States to the west.
One race that is not white. and one
only, has taken part in the centurys
progress. The sudden transformation
of the japanese people within one gen
Grafton is a curiosity of history. The
japanese have shown themselves cap
able of taking up and using whatever
the white civilization has developed
The part which this nation will play
in the twentieth century is an interest
ing problem.
To enumerate even the most impor-
tant inventions of the century such
as have changed the conditions of
mankind is a hopeless task. They
enter into every detail of daily life,
doing everything that human hands
could do with measurably greater
speed and strength and accuracy The
sewing machine, the shoe machine, the
Jacquard loom, the blast furnace, the
reaper, harvester, binder and thresher.
the Hoe press the typewriter, the fric-
ton match, Illuminating gas, nitrogly-
cerin, celluloid, the coal tar products,
India rubber, aluminium, the telegraph,