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casian civilization, this betrayal of both the white race and the black, will yet be stigmatized in history as one of the infamies of the age. This violation of im­manent laws, ethnological and moral, cannot fail to bring forth its harvest of misery and evil in days to come.

“Colonizing* Means Missionizing*.”

Germany, as universally acknowledged by all Stud­ents of African affairs, maintained the most liberal principles of Free Trade and the Open Door in her colonies—contrary to the practice of most other Euro­pean powers. Scientific hygiene, model town-planning, education, modern methods of agriculture and afforestra- tion were everywhere introduced. I have striven to characterize the new policy which governed Germany in her attitude towards the inhabitants of her colon­ies, in a speech which I delivered in the Reichstag on March 6 , 1913, and from which I beg leave to quote:

“The natives, gentlemen, are our wards, and the German Gov­ernment is for this reason confronted by the duty of considering the just interests of the natives as its own. For we do not wish to exterminate, but to preserve them. This is a moral duty to which we stand pledged through the hoisting of our flag in our African and South Sea colonies. The exercise of this duty is also actuated by wisdom, for this alone will secure us the possibility of a commonsense commercial policy and thereby the basis of our national participation ...