The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-04

radiation papers, had shipped as ships
cook out of San Francisco and had de-
serted In Samoa. But II at any point
the United States had lost track of this
unimportant baker the recording angel
in Berlin was prepared to assume re-
sponsibility for the Baden baker Of
cakes and to get three years service
out OF his half savage offspring.
Recognizing that emigration was
loss OF German citizenship which could
be checked only for the period of active
service with the colors and which could
not be abolished by edict when a natural
law OF economics was running counter,
the idea OF German colonies offered
solution OF the problem. It proposed
to direct emigration from Germany and
to avoid the drain upon German citizen
ship, for II must be remembered that
in addition to census enumeration the
male German spends no unimportant
portion of his life in counting fours
before some feldwebel. The frame of
mind is set forth In the work of a Ger
man traveller in one OF the imperial
colonies, who apostrophizes a colonial
born baby: .'Give God the glory. my
dear little German scamp in a German
home set in the heart OF German tropi-
cal Jungle. That Is n true Joy. Here
one feels in very truth the pulse beat
OF the homeland. And It moves one to
still greater gratitude IL he has ever
lived in American lands and has seen
how the most OF the former Germans
cannot make haste too Quickly TO strip
of all that is German which they have
brought from the fatherland"
The balance of trade has entered into
1
colonies, n matter OF particular moment
where Government makes a practice Of
fostering industry. Not all foreign mar
kets favor the wares made in Germany,
yet markets must be found for the ever
| increasing product OF German Industrial
efficiency. The colony can be counted
upon TO derive It's supplies from the
metropolis. for It Is inconceivable that
in any German system Of imperial gov
eminent the colonies could erect against
the mother country the protective tariff
barrier which many British colonies
have set against the mother country or
could enact exclusion laws barring the
people OF one section OF the empire from
any other. Similarly Germany rs a
great consumer OF raw material has
given thought to the drain of money
in settling the material bills in a foreign
land which does not take the German
manufactured product in sufiiclen
volume to balance the outstanding ac-
count. Here again the colony has a
distinct advantage: II supplies the raw
material. Il consumes the goods made
at home. and with German line Of
| transportation the whole transaction is
distinctly national all ends and the
/ middle are kept in the family and the
balance In exchange shows no German
| loss
Accordingly having been led through
considerations such as are here briefly
Indicated 10 accept the colonial idea
Germany has in the last few years
| established a colonial system under
strict regulation which has begun Ia
show what II can accomplish The
period is far too short 10 disclose
whether II is possible TO establish n
colony by a set OF rules rather than by
the initiative of venturesome men push
ing out into the wild and making their
own rules as need may arise. The best
that can be said for all these colonies
Is that they have been established and
managed with the utmost economy
that In none is the debt great and that
in the most the income fairly balance.
the outgo.