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

trade, to n large part OF the business
or every country. lt practically con-
tro,s southern Brazil. where there are
provinces which have 80 many Ger
man citizens that they are known as
West Deutschland, Germany is push
Ing its trade into Central America and
into all the countries of Asia. The
Kaiser lately got his arms around the
neck OF the sultan and squeezed out a
concession for German railroad
through Persia, and he IL Cabling and
forcing German goods into every out
of-the-way part OF the world Indeed.
the Germans are doing the best outside
their own colonies. The territories they
have annexed are about the most
worthless on the face Of the globe, and
they have hardly a colony that In self
supporting Their deficit in 1900 was
$LO0O,000. and at present the colonies
do not anywhere near meet their ex-
penses.
GERMAN AFRICA.
The best Of the German colonies are
in Africa, but even there they have
about the poorest lands. the chief ex.
ceptlons being the French possessions
In the Desert of Sahara. The German
colonies lie on both sides OF the CONT.
nent beginning with the province Of TO.
go on the west and I'm spots extending as
FAR south as Cape Colony. Togoland f.
about as big as Indiana. II lies only a
Few degrees above the equator on the
Gulf of Guinea, and Is VIGOROUSLY un-
healthy. Every German who goes there
gets the fever and all attempts at colo
nization have failed.
At present Togoland is managed by
syndlcates 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 zoo, 600 cocoa
nut trees $4,000 coffee trees and 10000
rubber trees. They Are engage a
In trading, importing cotton and other
goods and exporting palm oil, rubber
and ivory. Togoand Is the smallest
German province In Africa.
IN THE KAMERUNS.
little further south on the Gulf or
Guinea Is the German colony of Kane.
run, which was acquired in 1884 and
1890 This country is much larger than
Togoland, and Il has about million
more people. It's soil Is better and
there are brighter prospects Of develop
ment. The government is trying to en-.
courage capital to come in and 1t has
recently given territory ABOUT as big
as Indiana over to a syndicate. The
syndicate has the right to buy and sell
land, build railroads and canals and to
provide steamship communicaL tons. II
is now setting out plantations of CO.
Goa, coffee, tobacco and rubber. and Is
experimenting In the raising OF cloves.
ginger and pepper II has factories for
palm oil and trading houses In different
parts Of the country. The imports there
now amount to about 81 900 900 a year,
consisting chiefly OF German goods The
exports are less This syndicate is
building railroad from Victoria on
the coast TO the town Of Lisoka in the
interior.
The Kamerun population Is much the
same as that of Togoland, consisting Of
Bantu negroes and similar races which
have a slight admixture Of Hamitic
blood. The chief town Is Kamerun, al
though there are other important sta.
lions.
GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA.
The German possessions In southwest
Africa are almost entirely controlled by
German colonial company, entitled
the Deutsche Kolonal Gesellschaft fur
Sudwest -Afrika. This syndicate has
charge of an area 10 times as large as
the state of Ohio. with a population
half that Of Cleveland. The country Is
of little value II is mostly desert, with
few grassy GASES scattered over II.