The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-18

year and their foreign trade has be-
come a vital part of their Industrial
existence. They are frightened at the
advances of the Americans and are
now organizing movements to develop
their colonies and thereby build up
trade which they can control. They
also need new lands for their surplus
population. Every German who set
ties in the United States becomes an
American and the Kaiser says he wants
cies where they will still be support
ers of the fatherland. AS it is now
this empire is chock full It has more
than 60,000,000 and there is large ex-
cess of births over deaths.
THE GERMAN COLONIAL MOVE
MENT.
The desire for colonial expansion is
not confined to the Kaiser. The people
of all classes are with him and nearly
all are actuated by self interest. There
are many societies in favor of the
movement and half dozen newspapers
are regularly published in it's interest.
There are journals outside the country
as well as at home which support it.
The Deutsch Sud-West- Africanishe
Zeitung, for instance, is regularly pub
lished at Swakopmund, Africa, and
there is also the Deutsche Ost-Afri-
J.
the continent. These papers are week
lies costing from 81 to 81 a year. In
Tsingtau there is a colonial newspaper
devoted to expansion in China and in
Shanghai another is published in the
same interest. There are German pa
pers in South America There is one
in Samoa and there are colonial maga-
zines, monthly and weekly, in Germany
itself
Within the past year or so a colonial
museum has been established here in
Berlin, and the government has Great
ed colonial school in connection with
the Berlin University. Here the ma
tive languages of Africa, Asia and the
South Sea Islands are taught. There
are more than sixty different courses
of colonial study, embracing all
branches of ethnology, natural history
and geography.
THE KAISER'S COLONIAL EMPIRE.
The Kaiser's colonial empire has been
created since 1884. Germany was too
poor to have colonies before the Fran
co-Prussian war. 1t was then an agri-
cultural and not manufacturing
country. Today the Kaiser governs
five times as much territory outside
Europe as in it. His colonial empire
all told covers million square miles.
In Africa alone it is one-fourth as big
as the United States, and it's islands or
the Pacific have an area half as large
as the whole German empire.
In Asia the Kaiser absolutely con-
trolls but two hundred square miles,
but he claims the earth. He has really
only strip around Kiauehau bay. but
all the land back of this is known as
the German sphere of influence, and 1T
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 val
ley.
The Monroe doctrine keeps Germany
from having legal title to anything In
South America. It has commercial /
title, however, based upon it's enor-
NOUS trade, to large part of the busi-
ness of every country. 1t practically
controls southern Brazil, where there
are provinces which have so many Ger
man citizens that they are known as
West Deutschland. Germany is push
ing it's trade into Central America ana
into all the countries of Asia. me
Kaiser lately got his arms around the
neck of the Sultan and squeezed out
concession for a German railroad
through Persia, and he is cajoling and
forcing German goods into every OUT
of-the-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, ana
they have hardly colony that is SELL
supporting. Their deficit in l9oO was
:$7,000,0 600, and at present the colonies DO
not anywhere near meet their ex-
penses.
GERMAN AFRICA.
The best of the German colonies are
III Africa. Out even NAiSs
about the poorest lands, the chief ex-
ceptions being the French possessions
in the Desert of Sahara. The German
colonies lie on both sides of the con-
tinent beginning with the province Oh
Togo on the west and in spots extend
ing as far south as Cape Colony. To-
goland is about as big as Indiana. IL
lies only few degrees above the equa-
tor on the Gulf of Guinea, and Is
VIGOROUSLY unhealthy. Every German
who goes there gets the fever and all
attempts at colonization have failed.
AT present Togoland is managed py
syndicates and individual capitalists.
They are trying to develop the country
with the native labor, which they can
get for from 10 to 20 cents per day.
They have already set out 100000 cocoa
nut trees, $4,000 coffee trees and 10000
rubber trees. They are engaged In
trading. importing cotton and other
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