Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-21
,conyrighted by Frank G. carpcnter)


- ERLIN.-The Germans are
exporting moro than a bill
lion dollars worth Of goods
every year and their foreign
trade has become vital
part Of their industrial ex-
istence. They are fright
ened at the advances OF the
.Ao,scans and are now organizing move
,nents 10 develop their colonies ana
thereby build up a trade which they
can control. They also need new lands
for their surplus population. Every
German who settles In the United
states becomes an American and the
kaiser says he wants his people to go
"a German dependencies, where they
will still be supporters of the father
land. AS II is now this empire is
chock full. II has more than 6o0oO,0 900
and there Is large excess Of births
over deaths.
THE GERMAN COLONIAL MOVE
MENT.
The desire for colonial expansion IL
not confined TO the kaiser. The people
of all classes are with him and nearly
ali are actuated by self interest. There
are many societies in favor of the
movement and half dozen newspa-
pers are regularly published in its in
ierest There are journals outside the
country as well as at home which sup
mort IL. The Deutsch Sud West-Afri-
canshe Zeitung, for Instance. Is regu-
larry published at Swakopmund. Africa,
and there IL also the Deutsche Ost-
Africanishe Zcltung in the eastern part
of the continent. These papers are
weelkles costing from 81 to 81 a year.
In Tsingtau there Is u colonial neWspa-
per devoted to expansion in China and
in Shanghai another is published I'm the
came interest. There are German pa
pers In South America, There Is one
in Samoa and there are colonial maya
zines, monthly and weekly in Germany
itself,
Within the past year or so a colonial
muselm has been established here In
Berlin, and the government has Great
cd a colonial school In connection with
the Berlin university. Here the native
languages of Africa, Asia and the South
Sea Islands are taught. There are
luoit iiihH olANS hiANiNhN 'ptA pN7 VI
colonial study, embracing all branches
Of ethnology, natural history and geo.
graphy
THE KAISER'S COLONIAL EMPIRE,
The kaisers colonial empire has been
created since 1854. Germany was too
poor TO have colonies before the Fran
co-Prussian war. II was then an agri-
cultural and not a manufacturing coun-
try. Today the kaiser governs five
times as much territory outside Europe
rs In It. His colonial empire all told
covers million square miles. In Afri-
ca alone II Is one-fourth as big as the
United States, and its islands of the Pa
Clflc have 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. lie has really only a
"trip around I<iauchau bay but all the
land back of this Is known as the Ger
man sphere OF influence, and 1t em-
braces some of the best parts OF China.
The Germans are going ahead there as
though they owned Il. They are build
Ing railroads. opening mines and are
reaching out their itching palms to-
ward the Yanstse Kiang valley.
The Monroe doctrine keeps Germany
from having a legal title to anything
in South America. II has a commercial
title, however, based upon its enormous