The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-09

aeter of German colonial administra- ton. The colonies are regarded as enonomic estates. and are managed on bureaucratic lines. They are part of the iron-bOund official system, which, whatever it's merits, does not attract that free spirit of enterprise that con- quers the most untoward conditions and fosters commerce and trade. AL though Germans have been offered in ducements to settle in their oYer-sea possessions, they have not responded with the eagerness which one would expect from people reputed to be an- ious to found a great colonial empire; neither have capitalists shown any disposition to invest money in these undeveloped estates They have not achieved the success which has at- tended British colonies in the same position. Almost all of them are de- pendent on the home Government for financial support; some are heavy charges on the Imperial exchequer, requiring large subsidies to enable them to balance their budgets. Their existence is due to the resolute policy Of German statemen to increase the power and prestige of Germany throughout the world; their failure results from the reluctance at the in- dtvtdual German to migrate to them in any great numbers.
 It is not that the German makes an
 indifferent colonist. Like the English man and Scotsman he is a natural pioneer and settler, and, like them, takes root in new country and iden- tifies himself with his environment. The traveller meets them in every land and in the most out-of-the-way corn CTS. The majority are engaged i'll mercantile and banking business, many are produce merchants, while 8
 few devote themselves to agriculture. There is also a considerable number who are experts in employments re- quiring scientific knowledge.
 It is in technical ability and achieve ment that the German bests the Englishman abroad, as well as at home. A single illustration of this may be given. A German chemist
 through the forests of a tropical coun- try, examining and testing the sub stances he came across. He revisited Germany, and after some months re- turned, and a workshop was set up in the bush. Operations were conducted with the greatest secrecy, and they ap- peared to be successful, for assistant after assistant was imported from Ger many, the works extended, and to- day there is a large annual exporta- ttpyS s1f {o1 s,Ft Ao1 from the products of the woods. As linguists, also, they are far ahead of Englishmen. The principal | English merchant in French-speak- ing country informed the writer that he had given up sending clerks from England, because they could not, or would not, learn French. He had been compelled to employ Germans, who quickly made themselves indispensa- able, ard when he retired it would be a German that would succeed him.
 There are few better settlers than these quiet, plodding, domesticated Germans. They form a steadying fac tor in the communities in which they dwell, abstaining from meddling in local politics-save in British colonies,
 where their assistance in public work is welcomed-and very frequently marrying English women. When this happens they become more detached from home influences; and, although may continue to read German news papers and take an interest in Ger
 man affairs. their children grow up British citizens, often without, a knowledge of their fathers tongue; and when theys retire 1t is not the
 Fatherland that claims them. If there Is one point of difference between them and the British. it is that, as a rule, they do not understand the character of native, peoples so we'll. l and do not come into as intimate and sympathetic relations with them. There are, nevertheless, exceptions to this
 generalization.-St James Gazette.