THE WRONG WAY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 30, 22 September 1914, Page 4

THE WRONG WAY.

German has not been a successful coloniser in the past for many reasons, hut possibly the chief reason of all is that her first aim has been the greed} exploitation of the aboriginal peoples in places whore she has attempted \ww settlement. The great difference between the English and German method is that Britain has respected the rights and feelings of native races. Not long ago there appeared in the "llheinische Westfalische Zeitung," the special organ of German industrialists, the following enlightening expression of the national viewpoint:—"Why does Germany carry on colonial policy? In order that we may be able to bail several million Bantus, Hottentots and Masais as brothers and fellow-subjects? Why have all the German pioneers

gone to Africa? Why have 2000 Ger-mans-laid down their lives in the, South-West? In order to save the precious moral Herrcros from the des-j picable white traders J 1 To what purpost- have we governed our protectorates lor twenty .war-,:- In order that | negroes, Papuans, Indians and other'

interior peoples may appear against our planters and officials in the courts as equals? Wherefore has the German nation expended hundreds of millions (marks) on its colonies? In order that Indians and Greeks may do business there, and the German himself be hoodwinked? To ask all these questions is to answer them in the negative."