New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1923-08-24
GRIGG CHAMPIONS
IMPERIAL POLICY
Says Whites Must Clear Jungles
Of World II Natives Fail

Edward Grlgg, IN his nnal lecture De-
fore the Institute of Politics last
night, defended British Imperialism
and lauded the work of such empire
builders as Rhodes, Give and Warren
Hastings
Predicting that the United States
would be compelled by the force OF
events to become more and more i'm
perialistic in the future, he minimized
the doctrine of sef-determination for
backward peoples, and declared that
imperialism was necessary to the
world in its spread of trade, law and
order and peace. He called imper-
ialism the greatest power in the
world today"
The lecturer traced the growth of
modern British Imperialism from the
time of the American Revolution and
the Industrial Revolution in England,
which concentrated the main forces
of England on the overseas expansion
of industry and commerce.
While the United States was able to
expand across a continent to fill the
needs of its population, he went on,
England had to go across the seas.
He remarked that the Americans had
made short work of the Indian tribes
that stood in the way of their ex-
pansion, but that the problem had
grown more complex for the English.
In this problem, he declared the |
English had been actuated not only |
by their own material needs but by a
sense of duty to backward peoples. He |
said that this combination of motives
was best exemplified in the lives of
the empire builders like Rhodes. /
whose work has changed Rhodesia in I
Central Africa from "a savage jungle |
forty years ago to a prosperous and |
progressive self-governing colony |
now"
Replying to charges that have been
made during the session of the Insti-
tute that Rhodes had established
secret society to brink back the Unit
ed States as British colony, Sir Ed
ward said that when a youth of "a /
Rhodes had made will looking to
that end. but it was only boyish
dream, In his final will Rhodes es-
tablished the Rhodes scholarship for
Americans for the sake of furthering
understanding between the English
SpedhlnS peoples.
L. S. Policy of Expansion.
N Our annexation of the Hawaiian
Islands. the Philippines and Porto
Rico, and our special relations with
Cuba, he said, were other examples
of American imperialism. Again. he
said, we were very rightly now re-
sisting the right of the Cubans to
self DIFFERENTIATION in the matter of a
lottery"
& Our acquisition of the Panama
Canal Zone, the building of the canal
and it's fortifications, he went ON,
showed the necessity and wisdom Of |
i These examples, he said, covered
every form Of infringement on self
determination known to British i'm
perialism. Britain had gone further
afield with its, imperialism and had HI
dealt with it on larger scale, he II
said, but the principle was the same
as in American Imperialism. II
] Il do not know how economic riv-
TRY is to be prevented from embroil-
hg the civilized nations, If any more
arge areas of the world fall out of
he normal procession of production
Ind exchange" he said. There is
,nIy one safeguard against that dan :
,er. and its name is Imperialism"
At present, he said, the demand of
civilized nations for a safe and ade-
luate share of raw materials and
plus the nationalist and
acial demands of backward commun-
ties for self-determination, were
rtynp hA af inf
equation to the front.
Civilization must in self -preserva-
ion be guided by two economic laws"
e said. ''The first is that where
alive people cannot clear the jungle,
he task shall be undertaken for
hem by the civilized powers. The
econd is that where the jungle has
nee been cleared, civilization shall
OF allow the jungle to return. The
rinciple of self determination will
weep the world into new chaos of
ompetition, if these laws are not OBJ
erved."
The moral code by which imperial
I'M would be justified, Sir Edward
lid, was this;
That where elf-government is
ithheld, the government which takes
s place must aim steadily and sin
,rily at building up the moral fabric
seif-government as a trustee re-
,onsible for a world. The American
,ample has done much to secure ac-
,ptance OF this article in the code
' the rest of the world, and Amer
q is right" ~
British In India go
Give and Hastings in their develop lal
emit of India, he said, also showed
at the mere purpose of commercial
ploitation was subordinated to tic,
ONE greater humane ana clVlllzlng hat
lrpose-" est
The imperialism of these empire dec
ilders. he said, was something moreI An
an 'the overseas expression of ow,
lropean economic civilization" as ant
lillian S. Culbertson of the tariff I
mmission defined it at a round table ella
Inference. tior
Analyzing the criticism of those the
10 oppose imperialism both in Eng Sell
Id and the United States. Sir Ed he
Ird started with the objection that wit
perialism infringed the rights of F
oples regardless of how civilized dial
BY may be. the
This view," he went on has taken sar,
W life in a modern phrase the right lpov
self-determination.' 1t is certainly whi