Crime in the Colonies.
The colonial history of France and England is far older, but it is also infinitely more bloody than that of Germany, which began practically in 1884. This attempt to besmirch the colonizing methods of the Germans by collecting masses of unverified and unverifiable misdeeds, or by exaggerating the importance of such as may really have occurred, is in itself so transparent and unscrupulous an appeal to passion, prejudice and ignorance, that it might well seem ridiculous, were it not at the same time so appalling a specimen of what is deemed permissible in war. As even every fair-minded Briton would concede, evidence of monumental magnitude and of indisputable historical veracity might be compiled which by its very bulk would annihilate England's moral right to possess a single colony and prove her utter incapacity to govern her possessions for the good of the land and the people.
One would not need to go back so far as the bloody reign of terror under Warren blastings in India—a land peopled by an ancient and highly-developed race—nor to the beginnings of British colonization elsewhere—the extermination of the Australian tribes, the Maoris of New Zealand, the massacres in the Soudan, the wrongs perpetrated upon the Egyptians and the Africans. Mighty world-wide structures of Imperialism have not been