The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-22
John Bulls
Richest Colony.
How the English Manage
the Natives at Singapore.

Copyright, 1901. by Frank O. Carpenter)
Singapore Straits Settlements came to
Sir G; pore TO show you how John Bull man
ages this one OF his possessions. He Is this
price of colonial proprietors. He has
bigger empire than the car and he spots
tho globe with his colonial farms. lie has
been working for q hundred years at the
problems which Uncle Sam Is trying 20
figure out in the Philippines, and his work
here has been among tue Malays, who are
second cousins to our EilipinOs The ell
mate aud soil are about the same as thnt
1i me Philippine islands, and the very air
IS full of OBJECT lessons for ms TO our
own property and people In the western
Pacific.
The strc:..5 Settlements.
The English colonies down here In Ma
laysla are called the Straits settlements.
There ARE about have dozen Of them. and
Singapore is tho chief. II is the capital,
and 1t is one Of the most important financial
centcrs of King Edwards empire. 1t is an
island so near the Asiatic continent that
you can row TO 1t in a canoe in less than
an hour, ana SO small that you can walk
from one end OF it 10 the other in n day.
IT contains ouly $4,000 acres, and OF this
Pnly OneseVenth Is und1T cultivation. sun,
the islanu does a business OF $&VV,UUUUUO u
year, Ii has milllonuites by the score, anu
Its banks and business houses are among
the greatest of the orient. II has notes
which will accommodate hundreds OF
GuestA. fifty great steamship lines connect
IL with tbs north, west aud south, 1t mas
miles OF docks and more than a Thousand
vessels come In and out Of its harbor every
month.
How England Made the Jungle Blossom.
The growth OF this island Is an example
of what England can do with a colony.
Eighty years ago Singapore was jungle.
IL was inhabited by tigers ana other wild
beasts, and you could hardly take step
without putting your foot on a cobra. To
H. gay the island is cut up with roads. 1t
KY IS pepper sugar, tapiOca ana Sage planta-
~ ons. great part OF the jungle has been
III cared away and big city has grown up
III bout the harbor. The city is the halfway
III btation of the voyage around the world. IL
~ Is port Of call for the steamers to and
E from India and China, and also for those
ki srom China and Japan to and from Europe
E ny the Suez canal. Some of the Australian
" lines pass through the straits and there nrc
bs regular ships from here TO Java, Borneo
~ Slam and the Philippines.
Singapore now contains about 200, QUu
I people, OF whom UOVO are Europeans and
I Americans and the balance Aslatics. III,
population is perhaps the most eosmopol
tan on the globe. There are about 1000.
Chinese and 1900 East Indians liner,
ere hundreds Of japanese, Sinmese ant
Jews. There are thousand dark skinned
Arabs and representatives Of almost every
tribe Of Hudoostuu and BurmUh. Their,
arc ParseeS from bombay, Siamese from
Bangkok, as well MS hundreds OF Armeni
ans and Jews, There are also thousands o
Malays and lnrse population OF EuraSiuus
Vho ere half European, half Aslatic
II Is this mass that the English govern
VI, III" sIii'i ac IN M Pg onn thaI1
perfect order and make property and lif
safer than they are In the heart of Londo
or New York.
How Singapore Is Governed.
The English understand how to COVER
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doubt whether they are as great succe'
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+ten,ents are n croNn colony upder a 90
cynor onnoipted Inv King Edrard aided
nm executive council The governor liz /
commander chief OF tho little army a
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guard ,
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