WITH FLASH-LIGHT AND RIFLE 



to settle their grievances against one another and 

 against the colonial government. 



The whole public and social organization of the 

 native tribes is to be explained by the fact that they 

 were, from ancient times, in a constant state of war 

 with one another. Now they suddenly are asked by 

 strangers, who have usurped the supreme power, to 

 change the old-established order of things. The chiefs, 

 who had the power of life and death over their tribe, 

 are practically dethroned, and thus the natives are un- 

 controlled, and will soon be uncontrollable, as the arm 

 of the European administration cannot reach all and 

 every one. It would have been much more simple and 

 much less expensive to strengthen the authority of the 

 chiefs and make them responsible to the government. 

 The complex European method of administration and 

 military government is not only expensive, but will 

 some day prove inefficient and dangerous. 



The budget of the colonial government of German 

 East Africa for 1901 shows an expenditure of $2,927,- 

 400, including over $1,000,000 for railway construction, 

 and about $550,000 for the colonial army, which num- 

 bers 1700 men, of whom 1500 are colored. The rev- 

 enues for the same year amounted to $700,000, neces- 

 sitating an imperial subvention of over $2,000,000. It 

 is plain that it is rather expensive to rule such an ex- 

 tended and unfertile territory in European fashion. 



Again I repeat, the disarmament of the natives is an 



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