The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-29

army of 100000 men scattered here and there through his various dependencies; he has established the biggest navy on earth to defend them, and he has piled up a national debt of enormous propor- tons.
 At the same time the EngIish believe their colonies pay. They say. they cou!6 not exist as a manufacturing nation with out them. They rely upon them for their raw materials, and they sell them great part of the British home products.
 The English colonial trade is enormous. In imports 1t gives Great Britain $547, ,0O0.- 900 worth of raw materials and food stunfs every year, and this Is more than the country gets from any place else outside the United States As for us. we furnish John Bull the cotton with which he is clothed and we spoon-feed his corpulent frame. In exports he sells his colonies a full half billion dollars worth annually which Is about one-third of his whole for eign trade.
 British Trusts and Colonial Stocks.
 The British invest to a large extent in colonial securities A look at the stockS sold here on the exchange shows that the undertakings represented are scattered over the globe The market goes wild over diamonds of South Africa. the gold mines of the Rand and the wool products of Australia. You can buy stocks in en- terprises of almost any of the colonies. There are coffee syndicates from Borneo tea syndicates of CeyIon and India, sheep stocks from the Falkland Islands, clove companies of Zanzibar. and. indeed. so many different trusts devoted to foreign investments that a page of this paper would not held them all.
 Great Britain has now more than four billion dollars directly invested in the col onies. Much of this is in loans at a low Al, tially guaranteeing the dividends. Some of the larger syndicates arc under the patronage of the king. The British North Borneo Company. which is selling land and laying out coffee and rubber planta- tions about Sandakan. governs the coun- try for England. It has built railroads and telegraph lines. and is selling land, under the guarantee of British protection.
 The British South African Company has been practically controlling Rhodesia. an enormous territory in south-central Afri- ca. It has a capital of s25. 700, 900, and it's revenues are several million dollars year.
 The British East African Company which has been operating in Zanzibar and along the east coast of the continent has acquired hundreds of thousands of square miles of territory and that added to the empire by the British South Aftica Company is ten times as big as Peupsyl- vania. These companies have surveyed more than 100000 acres of land. They have built towns and villages. They have laid down railroads and telegraphs ana are opening up commerce in every direc- ton.
 Another colonizing compeny is operat- ing along the Niger. It began with a cans ital of $5,000.0O0. and has made treaties with more than 300 African kings. It has & river fleet and has established trading stations. Through it the British have gained territory ten times as big as tho State of New York. with a population of 5000 900.
 The British in Africa.
 But this Is by no means all that the British are doing in Africa. They have already taken possession of the very best improvements in nearly every territory own, they have about one-third of all the land in Africa, or fin all territory larger than the whole United States. Cape Col ony is bigger than Texas, Natal and Zulu land are larger than Maine. Basutoland Is bigger than Vermont and Bechuanaland is more than ten times as big as Indiana. The Transvaal Is about twice the size of Illinois, the Orange River Colony is as big as New York. Rhodesia would make eight States like Missouri. and East Afri- ca, including the Nile basin, Is alone about one-sixth as large as the whole United States. In the western part of tho continent, Nigeria is twice as big as Cal ifornla, Lagos and Yoruba are just about three times as big aS Nav LAraAx. and