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Title: Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Penfield, Frederic Courtland, 1855-1922
Subjects: East Asia -- Description and travel India -- Description and travel Sri Lanka -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : George Bell and Sons New York : Century co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Germany over colony or sphereof influence. To forcibly back up his subjectspecuniary rights in the American hemisphere,even, the approval of the government at Washing-ton has first to be obtained. In his heart the Kai-ser loathes the doctrine of Monroe; that isobvious. It is twenty years since Germany began to buildup a colonial empire in Africa, and the net resultis that, after spending some hundred million dol-lars, she has acquired over a hundred millionsquare miles of territory, with a sparsely scatteredGerman population of between five and six thou-sand souls. A third of the adult white populationis represented by officials and soldiers. Militar-ism is rampant everywhere, with the result thatthe white settler shuns German colonies as hewould the plague. The keen-witted Kaiser longago saw that empire-building in the Dark Conti-nent could produce nothing but expense during hislifetime. To perdition with the Monroe Doctrine, andwith African tribes blind to the excellence of Ger- 298
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The Kaisers Play for Chinese Trade man-made wares, the Kaiser might have saidten years ago: I 11 have sweet revenge upon alland sundry by capturing trade everywhere—I 11make Germany the workshop of the universe.Keep your territory, if you like; I 11 get thetrade! Bah, Monroe Doctrine! Bah, grinningSenegambians! The resolute Trade-Lord then turned his faceto the bountiful Orient, pregnant with resource be-yond the dreams of avarice, teeming with hun-dreds of millions of people. The East had madeEngland dominant in the worlds affairs. Keep-ing his soldiers at home, the Kaiser hurled a le-gion of trade-getters into the Far East, plantingcommercial outposts in Ceylon, sending a flyingcolumn of bagmen and negotiators to India andthe Straits Settlements, and distributing a numer-ical division of business agents throughout China.The Empire of the Celestials was made the focalpoint of a great propaganda, openly espoused bythe Emperor. It was readily demonstrated that Great Britainhad no per

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