Nuhou, Volume II, Number 24, 17 October 1873 — German Development of the Tropies. [ARTICLE]

German Development of the Tropies.

Yv'e haveread with iDtcreat aome articles in tae Vqss Konigliche Zeilung y respeccting eoolie iabor and caltivation in tropical Africa aad South Amenea. This journal whilst advocating the advaneement of German eoterprise ia ali parta of the worid, desiree that German laborew ebail adhere to the Fatheriand ;* and that German eapitaiist3 seeking to engage in foreign enterprise, Buch as tropical cultivation, ehail endeavor to utiiiEe the Ohineee and Japanese raees. It poinfcs out the vast field whieh Africa and South Ameriea ofter for cotton and other cultures 5 and propoee a vast eeheme, wherein German eapllal wiii be emplojed to emigrate perhapa one million of Asiatics in the next twenty jears to colonies in Africa, South America and Malājsia. It makee eepeeial mention of thc Japanese emigration to the Sandwich Islands, and augufs the best of reeults from Japanese colonization. Xt sajs,we musfc not lose eight of the facc that whole Japanese eettlements might also befound. The t!irong of emigration from Japan might be made propcrtionallv larger than that from Ohina -'' And then goes on to speak of the advantages that would result from this class of emigration. Wc iearn from this and other articles that have eome under our observation, wbat an impulse haa been given to Germao enterprise bj theestabiiBhment of the German Empire. It is possible that German diplomacj maj be engaged at thiB timc, in preparing the waj to open the iabor market of Asia to the enterprise of Gcrman eapital in tropical countries in order to producc for Europe a vast increase ot raw matemi for her manufactures, and of food fbr her peopie. We do not think that Japan eaa be tempted to aliow her people to help to found colonies in Africa or South Amcrica in whieh vast andremote countries Japan would iose her children for ever. But she could be interested in permitting her people to eome to a small countrj like this, and aeeist 111 cstablishing a quasi Japanese eol=onj; because in eueh a countrj her people wouid not be lost to her. A few thousands wou!d wield an mfluence in thls little etate; and if Japan ehouid a,s ehe hopes, venture out on maritimc enterprise, she would then find in Honoiulu a bott of kindred j>eopie ? and it would become to 1 er a semi-Japanese port. If we had anj statesmanship at thc head of affairs we might trj to intercst Japan in thia matter