SECTION D COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION 



(Hall 4, September 24, 10 a. m.) 



CHAIRMAN: PROFESSOR HARRY P. JUDSON, University of Chicago. 

 SPEAKERS: PROFESSOR BERNARD MOSES, University of California. 

 PROFESSOR PAUL S. REINSCH, University of Wisconsin. 



THE CONTROL OF DEPENDENCIES INHABITED BY THE 

 LESS DEVELOPED RACES 



BY BERNARD MOSES 



[Bernard Moses, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of History and Political Science, Uni- 

 versity of California, b. Burlington, Connecticut, 1846. Ph.B. University 

 of Michigan, 1870; Ph.D. Heidelberg, 1873. Professor of History, Albion 

 College, 1875; Professor of History and Political Science, University of 

 California, 1875 . Member of the United States Philippine Commission, 

 1900-02. Author of Politics (with W. W. Crane); The Federal Government of 

 Switzerland; The Establishment of Municipal Government in San Francisco; 

 Democracy and Social Growth in America; The Establishment of Spanish 

 Rule in America.] 



IT is one of the simplest and most evident facts of social growth 

 that in the early history of peoples now civilized one generation 

 succeeded another with very few changes either in character or 

 outward condition. If some of these peoples developed peculiar 

 institutions, and established independently peculiar manners, cus- 

 toms, and ordinances, this result was made possible by their long 

 isolation, or their freedom from external influences through extensive 

 periods of time. Such isolation and such freedom were characteristic 

 of the early ages of social life. The barbarians of long ago were 

 left undisturbed through centuries, and if they had capacity, they 

 had also the opportunity to develop an indigenous civilization. 

 The barbarians of to-day, if they have the capacity, have not the time 

 at their disposal, have not the opportunity, to effect an independent 

 development. 



The creation of the means of communication, the desire and the 

 ability of the strong, enlightened nations to expand the field of their 

 dominion, and the economic need felt by civilized society for the 

 resources of the whole world, take away from the undeveloped peoples 

 the opportunity for a centuries-long process of slow, independent, 

 social growth. If it were assumed that the American Indians, left 

 to themselves for a thousand years longer, would have advanced to 

 a state of civilization, this capacity would have been of no avail 

 because the other factor, the period of a thousand years, was not 

 accorded to them. In the days of old it might have been reasonable 



