The Lamar register., 1903-05-20
THE SUBJECT RACES
oNE.r4lRo OF THE PEOPLE
Vast Alien Colonies Governed by
Men Of Foreign Linease-stronser
Nations of the North Control Tropie

Vast Alien Colonies Governed by
Men of Foreign Linease-stronser
Nations of the North Control Tropie-
Countries.
The area. population, commerce aiiu
methods of government OF the colohies
of the world are discussed in detail py
a monograph just issued by the ireas-
ury Bureau of Statistics, entitled Co
loniaI Administration, 1SO0-19Oo.
II shows that the colonies, so-called,-
of the world, including in this term all
territory not contiguous to the coun-
try by whose government 1t Is con-
trolled. occupy one-fifth of tho land
surface of the globe and contain one
third of the worlds population. or
about 500 ,O0O, 600 people. or this colo
nial population of 500,000,0OO. only
three small groups. numbering less
than 10 100000 population, or eiSht per
cent of the whole, are composed In any
considerable degree OF the people or
their descendants. The principal col
onies composed of people from the gov
erning country or their descendants
arc the British colonies of British
North America, Australia and South
Africa. The remaining 4S5,000.OOO peo-
pie, governed by countries not contig-
uous to that which they occupy, are or
different stock from that OF the gov
erning country, and less than one per
cent. of their population Is or the ma
tionality which administers the gov
ernment Practically all OF Africa,
Oceanica and southern Asia are gov
erned by countries not contiguous 10
the territory in question. All the gov
erning countries are located in the tenn
perate zone. and practically all OF the
territory governed as colonies Is, win
the exception of Canada. southern Aus
tralia and New Zealand, tropical or
sub-tropical.
The 4S5 900, 900 people of stock dir
ferent from that of the governing coun-
try, and located in the tropics. are di-
vided into three great groups-East In
dian, West Indian and Africa. The
East Indian, or Oriental group, in
cludes the British colonies OF India,
Ceylon, the Maylayan peninsula. FIJI
and Borneo; the Ditch colonies OF Java
and Sumatra. and the French colony
of Indo- China-all located compara-
lively near to the Philippines and hav-
ing population. climate and other
conditions somewhat similar to those
of the Philippines. The second group,
the West Indian. includes colonies gov
erned by the British, French. Dutch
and Danish governments; the third
group, Africa and adjacent islands. in
cludes territory governed by Great
Britain. France, Germany. Italy. Por-
tugal and Belgium.
The population of the British col
onies is In round numbers 350.00o.0 900.
that of the French colonies 100000
Netherlands colonies 35.00O,O0O. Bel
gian colonies 3O.0O0.0O0; German colo
MES Is 900 900. Portuguese colonies, g.
100000. and Spanish colonies 1875 900.
while the non-contiguous territory gov
erned by the United States has popu-
lation of about 1O.O00,0O0. OF the pop
ulation of $50, ,OOO,O thus governed by
Great Britain, nearly 300.0o0,000 are in
the East Indian group. 35.000,OOO in
Africa and less than 100000 in the
West Indies. OF the Dutch colonies 3d.
100000 are in the East Indian group
and $4,000 in the West Indies. or the
French colonies about 25,000,000 are in
the East Indian group, 25.OOO.OOO in
Africa and 100000 in the West Indies.