Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-15

But at present they are a source of weak
ness and expense to France, rather than
strength and profit. The great goal OF
French colonial ambition is not the mastery
of the Pacific, the aim of other leading ma
items but the development OF that immense
African estate for which such heavy sacri-
fees are now being made
The mere gaining of the territory Is one
of the most remarkable achievements of the
nineteenth century, although 1t Is one 10
which comparatively little attention mas
been paid, even in France. 1t has been
made possible only by the courage anu ue-
votion of many military heroes like Mar
chand, of whom the world has never heard'
and by the genius of two great statesmen
Hanotaux and Delcasse. But apparently
France has yet to evolve empire Duliueis
and consolida tors of the type or Cromef
| and Taft Her efforts to develop her colon
| fal estate by means of railways, ocean
cables, steamship lines and paternai aoihiii .
istrati are well meant, but at present
they are feeble and spasmodic. A Chamber
lain at the head of the French colonial de-
| partment might work wonders.
Britain and Her Share of the Burden
Tibet. with its $4,000 square miles OF
territory and it's six million people has just
been added to the British empire Ihat is
the plain truth of the matter, WhateVe.
polite fictions may be INDUCED In by Bril-
ish diplomatists. 1t is the principal con-
quest made by a. Yhne1irace over people Vi
| another color and another clYilizauon our
/ ing the present year, but next year may
very possibly see a greater one,
Events move rapidly nowadays IN the
! matter of colonization, Hardy year
passes without a few million blacks anu l
browns and yellows being auoeo u eie
white mans burden.
| The British empire, the sFea,eot ooioItS
| newer the world has ever known, mas
grown with wonderful fidity WITHIN th u,
memory of living men. IN 1881 IL eAteiueu
over an area of y 80 600 square miles, VIII
| 1fs COO 600 people; in 1902 it covered L.
$50 coo square miles, with over 4oVVo,uVo'
| And this latter total did not Hciuoe terri
tories occupied by British troops, sucn a'
| Feypt and the Soudan, which are britlsii
nossessions in fact but not in name.
| Neither did it include, of course, conquest
made since 1902 such as the SCUM IN Airicai :,
republics, large territories IN WEST anu
Central Africa and Tibet ,.,
Altogether the total area OF the BRUSH
empire counting all the places Where the
word Of Briton Is law, cannot now pe
less than 130C0.O00 square miles. EXACT
figures are impossible to arrive at, because
the exact extent 3of some 5ot the African
possessions is still uuisDOwnc
In 1897 there were only a miiiion anu d
half Britons in sthe Gpl4nies; a cohsiu e.a
able proportion of that NUMBER were lne, {. =
in Australasia. In, a994 there are over
eleven millions of puBe5hlooded BTltons 90
Ing garrison duty alq4ppg ri the far-huns Dat
tie line. ,,,.,,
In 1887 the total revenues of the Brush
empire amounted tosfibeut f7aooooovt the
united kingdom havingtta revenue OF Tow,
coo Geo and India and the colonies about
| s25 GOO. 600 In 1902 the revenue OF the
united kingdom was sfbughfy, fl43 oOo UeO
| India, fT5,000,O eco; Australia f3sooo,OOo'
Canada, f12 ,O00, 000: tesaPe Colony and Ma Ma
| tai I'll 800 600; othdpopolonies,- tt 5oo,ooo'
| making a grand totalfDfff2S1 ,060,0e8:
T England was amongothe last OF the sea
mowers of Europe td start IN the race Tor
colonies. Spain, Portugal and Holland got
| far ahead of her buttnowrthey' are nowhere
| in comparison. King Edward rules qi-
| rectly or indirectly over a hfth OF the
| worlds surface and more than quarter Oh
| the human race. And the pike and car
| ronade have won for him nearly all MS Ter
| ritory. -s.:.i.. .
By Mutual Agreement. ~ !
It is true that treaties have been largely
operative In recent years In adding to the
territory of Great britain end other col
onizing powers. bat those treaties were not
as a ruie made with the people most az
fected by them. They were made between
| the powers that had entered IN the race,
| and their simple principle was always. tn
let you grab that bit il you'll let me grab
| this bit" What did the Angoni in ,Nyasr
saland or the Bekwai in West Africa know
about the deliberations of frock-coated gen.
uemen who. met In London or Paris and
decided their destiny? But England or
France got title by treaty" to the black