The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-08-06
THE WHITE MANS BURDEN.


o shall cease throughout the globe; tina
: without respect to color all parts of tn
earth shall be free and open TO the &C
, cess of the inhabitants OF any othe
, part.
1t is prognosticated that the Teutoni
race will dominate the globe, not per
=, haps to rule every section. but that tn
influence of the Teutonic or Anglo
Saxon race shall be SO powerfully fel
in every section that its mandates viii
be obeyed The prime reason for sucl
a demonstration is the love of home
which is inherent in the Teutons anC
which they carry with them in theil
peregrinations. The maintaining OF
the purity of the home is unquestion-
ably the strongest trait of character
times the women of Germany fought
side by side with the men in defense OF
their homes, and the continual incite-
ment they exercised over their sons and
brothers towards that end has been re-
peated by following generations in both
England and America
In looking back over the history of
! Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome we
note that those nations. and probably
as great nations who preceded them.
| have utterly persisted off the face of
the globe. In searching for the causes
Of decline we arrive at but one con-
cIuSfop and that &c fbair Ia cL IF he wing
any burden like 1.-THE white mans bur-
den" The manner in which they treat
ed their neighbors; the waging OF I'M
necessary war upon them for the
avowed purpose of enslaving them and
carrying off the Accommodations of those
peoples, that the conqueror might en-
joy the fruit of the labors of others.
without the care of tilling the soil or
manufacturing the products of the for
ests and mines.
Without attributing this decline and
fall to the Creator as a punishment
meted out as avenging the oppressed
We know that the enslaving of man
and the forceful taking of his earnings
emasculate the conquero- and untitled |
him for the defense of his citadel when |
in course of time he was in turn at
tackled.
The white mans burden, Individual
ly, is to conduct himself, amidst |
temptations, in such a manner as to
obtain the respect of his fellows with
out respect to color or previous condi-
lions of servitude. In all parts of the
world we find the white man, with his
superior cunning and power, individ-
ually taking advantage of the aborig-
ines of those countries. We find him
the native of his birthright
wheedling him out of his land for a
few baubles; taking his services for a
mere Iittance of their value; and in a
thousand pseudo-legal ways imposing
upon him.
Probably the result will be the same
as we have seen in regard to nations;
the individual cheaters and imposers
on their fellow men will slowly estab-
fish regulations which will ultimately
cause their social downfall. All the
struggles they may eventually make to
retain their ill-gotten gains will be
futile and they and their children, who
will assuredly inherit the traits of their
viii be as certainly lost as the .
site of Babylon. 1t behooves, therefore,
Zach individual in his dealings with
lbOrigines in new lands to be fair and
honest in all his transactions. ;
The white man demands the right to
EXPLORE and exploit foreign lands.
Should he deny a similar privilege in Z
lis own land to the inhabitant of other l
ands he assumes a burden which may 2
rush him eventually. He claims the 1
light to use the rivers, waterfalls, G
mines, and the right to unrestricted V
rade and travel in alien lands: let him
e careful how far he denies similar
rivileges to the inhabitants of chose +
ands in his own land. There is no -
objection to these natural g
SEPARATIONS, for the world was made for r.
he inhabitants generally, but we
hOuld beware lest In denying similar
rivileges to others that we are not -
nwittingly superinducing a burden d
'hich Will assuredly react to our great .
injury. ,
Thus the white mans burden has
vo characters, national and Individual.
n the one, nations must be reciprocal |
/ their dealings with each other, and, |
lille insisting on good government and
IL that implies, in its neighbours ter
tory, it must protect. the weak against
lie aggressor. In the other, individuals |
lust be fair and honest in their deal |
lgs with their fellow men in alien |
inds.