Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1898 — Cost of German Colonies. [ARTICLE]

Cost of German Colonies.

Germany can scarcely be considered as successful in her efforts to secure fame as a colonizing power. The estimated cost of colonies for the coming year is fixed, according to the imperial budget, at $2,000,000, In return for which she Is able to point to 1.803 colonists, all told, of which number half are soldiers and officials. With regard to t!;e trade, Germany’s exports to her colonies do not amount to $1,500,000 per annum, so that from a business point of view the undertaking can scarcely be considered as a profitable one. It is evident that the fault lies with the German government rather than with the German merchants. The latter thrive and prosper to a phenom enal degree in the United States, an/ In all those English colonies where ini tiatlve, enterprise and commerce ari not submitted to all the vexatious and hampering restrictions that seem to be Inherent to Germany’s notions of colonial administration.—New York Tribune. ,