The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-19


nigh exterminatcd, wantonly and cru
ely. The merely savage tribes, both
in North and South America,
who wore very few in number, have
much decreased OF have vanished, and
grave wrongs have often been commit
ted against them as we'll as by them.
But all OF the Indians who had at
tanned to an even low grade OF indu-
trial and social efficiency have re-
mained in the land. and nave for the
most part simply been assimilated
with the intruders, the assimilation
marking on the whole a very con-
siderable rise in their condition. TAX
In into account the Indians of pure
blood. and the mixed bloods in which
the Indian element is large. IL is un-
doubtedly true that the Indian Popula-
tion Of America Is larger today than
II was when Columbus discovered the
continent and stands on far higher
plane of happiness and efficiency. In
Australia the few Savages tend to
die out simply because their grade oil
culture is so low that nothing can be
done with them; doubtless occasional
brutalities have been committed by
white settlers, but these brutalitles
we're not an appreciable factor In the
dying out OF the natives. In India and
Java there has been a great increase
in well-beiHg and population under the
English and the Dutch, and the ad-
vance made has been in striking con-
tract to what has occurred during the
same period in the nearby lands
which have remained under native
rule. In Egypt. in the Philippines,
in AlgieIs. the native people have
thriven under the rule of the foreign
crs, advancing as under no circum-
stances could they possibly have ad-
Vanced il left 10 themselves. the in
crease in population going nand IN
hand with the increase in general we'll
being. In the Soudan, Mahdism dur
the ten years Of its unchecked control
was responsible for the death OF over
half the population and meant physical
and moral ruin, a fact which should
he taken into account by the perverted
-philanthrophy which fails to
recognize the enormous advantages
conferred by the English occupation of
the Soudan, il not on the English
themselves, certainly on the natives
and on humanity at large In the
same way the Russian advance into
Turkestan has meant real advance
In the well-being OF the people, as
we'll as the spread of civilization In
Natal the English found an empty des-
ert; because OF the peace they estab-
lished ii has filled up so densely with
natives as to create very serious and
totally new problems. There have
l,.t
conquest and control of Africa; but on
the whole the African gegions which
during the past century have seen
the greatest cruelty, degradation, and
suffering, the greatest dlminution Of
population. are those where native con.
troll has been unchecked. The adj
vance has been made In the regions
that have been under European con-
troll or influence; that have been pro-
foundly influenced b. European ad
ministrators, and by European and
American missionaries. OF course the
best that can happen to any people
that has not already a high civilization
Of Its own is TO assimilate and profit
by American or European ideas. the
ideas of civilization and Christianity,
without submitting TO alien control;
but such control in spite OF all its de-
fects. is in a very large number Of
cases the prerequisite condition 10
the moral and material advance of
the peoples who dwell In the darker
corners of the earth Where the con-
troll Is exercised brutally; where 1t
made use OF merely. to exploit the na.
tives, without regard TO their physical
or moral ell-bcing; IL should be un-
spariDgly criticised, and there should
bo resolute insistence on amendment
and reform But We must not, be-
cause of occasional wrongdoing, Blind
ourselves to the fact that on aae
whole tho white administrators and
the Christian missionary have eXer-
cised a profound md wholesome in
fluence for good in savage regions.
Let me illustrate what I
moan by particularly alludlng
to three cases, Algiers, India,
and the Philippines. The North
African coast wos a mere nest or
pirates during the first decade Of the
nineteenth century. Punitive expedi-
tions wore sent against these pirates
again and again, but they could not bo
permanently suppressed by such ex.
petitions, and all the great CONNER
clnl nations were forced to pay them
q more or less thinly disguised tr-
butte, or blackmail The United
states was among the number. It
was the French conquest OF Algiers