Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-21

expansion in China and in Shanghai
another is published in the same interest.
There are German papers in South
America. There is one in Samoa and there
are colonial magazines, monthly and week
ly, in Germany itself.
Within the past year or so a colonial mu-
scum has been established here in Berlin,
and the government has created colonial
school In connection with the Berlin Uni
versity. Here the native languages of At
RIGA. Asia and the South Sea Islands
taught. There are more than sixty differ
ent courses of colonial study. embracing
all branches of etEnology, natural history
and geography.
The Kaiser's Colonial Empire
The kaiser's colonial empire has been
created since 1884 Germany was too poor
10 have colonies before the Franco-Prussian
war. 1t was then an agricultural and not a
manufacturing country. Today the kaiser
governs five times as much territory out
side Europe in it. His colonial empire
all told covers n million square miles In
Africa alone il is one fourth as big as the
United States. and its islands of the PACING
nave an area half as large as the whole
GERMAN empire.
In Asia the kaiser absolutely controls
but two hundred square miles. but he
claims the earth. He has really ONLY
strip around Kiauchau bay. but all the
land back of this is known as the Ger
man sphere OF influence. and il embraces
some of the best parts of China The
Germans are going ahead there as though
they owned it. They are building railroads
opening mines and are reaching out their
itching palms toward the Yangtse Kiang
valley.
The Monroe doctrine keeps Germany from
having legal title to anything in South
America. 1t has commercial title how
ever based upon its enormous trade to
large part of the business OF every country
II practically controls southern Brazil
where there are provinces which have so
many German citizens that they are known
as west deutschland. Germany s pushing
us trade INTO Central America and into all
the countries Of Asia. The kaiser lately got
ms arms around the neck of the sultan and
squeezed out n concession for a German
d ran s through Persia, and he is cajoling
ana fore nS German goods into every out
nf-thr-way part of the world Indeed
the Germans are doing best outside their
own colonies. The territories they have
annexed are about the most worthless on
the face of the globe. and they have hardly
colony that Is self-support!ng Their
detictt in 1850 was 81 900 coo and AT present
the colonies do not any where near meet
their expenses.
German Africa.
The best of the German colonies are in
Africa but even there they have about the
poorest lands. the chief exceptions being
the French possessions in the Desert of Sa
nara The German colonies lie on both
sides of the continent beg ming with the
province of Togo on the west and II, snots
extending as far south as Cape Colony,
ioSoiand Is about as big as Indiana II lies
only a Few degrees above the eouator on
.he GuII OF Guinea, and is VIGOROUSLY nm
healthy Every German who goes there
ton have failed
At present Togoland is managed nv syn
dicates and individual capitalists They
on 1oE
native labor, which they can get for from
~ 10 70 cents per day. They have already
SET out 1890 cocoanut trees. $1,000 coffee
trees and 10000 rubber trees They are on
gagged in trading; importing cotton and
other goods and exporting palm OIL rubber
and ivory. Togoland is the smallest Ger
man province in Africa.
In the Kameruns.
\ little further south on the Gulf Of
Guinea IS the German colony of Kane
run, which was acquired in 1884 and 1880
This country is much larger than Togo
land. and it has about a million more peo-
Pile Its soil is better and there are
brighter prospects of development The
government is trying to encourage canitaI
70 come in, and il has recently given a ter
ftory about as big as Indiana over to a
syndicate. The syndicate has the right to
buy and sell land build railroads and
canals and to provide steamship commlmi-
cations. 1t is now setting out nlantations
OF cacao. coffee. tobacco and rubber. and
Is experimenting In the raising OF cloves
ginger and pepper 1t has factories tor
palm oil. and trading houses in diff
1erent parts OF the country. The Imports
there now amount to about two million dol
lars a year, consisting chiefly of German
goods The exports are less. This syndI-
cate Is building railroad from Victoria on
the coast to the town OF Lisoka in the in
terror
The Kamsrun population ID much the