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“The tribes with which our colonization brings us in contact occupy a lower plane of culture and are actuated by a lower, frequently much lower viewpoint than the civilized whites. It is not only our legal duty, to which, as the protectorate state we are bound—no, gentlemen, our position as a cultural state obliges us for the obvious sake of civilization itself, to help these tribes and to strive to procure for them better conditions of life than they themselves have hitherto been able to secure in view of their inefficienc)' and limited capacities.

“Colonizing means missionizin g , and missionizing in the lofty sense of education towards culture. Precisely as one of the supreme tasks of a leading statesman consists in the proper approximation of the imponderabilia of his own nation, so must the colonizer strive indefatigably to study the thoughts and feelings of the natives, to analyze them and to adapt his methods of work accordingly. And his tasks are many and diversified. The natives are ignorant —they must be instructed. They are indolent—they must be taught to work. They are unclean—they must be taught clean­liness. They are ill with all manner of distempers—they must be healed. They are savage, cruel and superstitious—they must become peaceful and enlightened. ”

The Rig’llts of the Native.

No nation with a colonial purpose so humane, so lofty as this, need fear comparisons with other lands, nor the aspersions of those who for dubious motives, would now deprive an unfortunate people of the results of their yearlong work, energy and enterprise. A nation with a colonial program such as the foregoing pledges itself in the highest sense of President Wilson’s prin­ciple—that “the interests of the population concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of