Comparing Viewpoints on Imperialism

1. Comparing Viewpoints on Imperialism For each slide, evaluate whether the view of imperialism was positive or negative and use evidence to describe your evaluation.

2. 1. • I contend that we are the first race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. I contend that every acre added to our territory provides for the birth of more of the English race, who otherwise would not be brought into existence…I believe it to be my duty to God, my Queen and my country to paint the whole map of Africa red, red from the Cape to Cairo. That is my creed, my dream, and my mission…What an alteration there would be if they were brought under Anglo-Saxon influence.” • Cecil Rhodes

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4. 3. • A Pink Cheek man came one day to our Council…and he told us of the King of the Pink Cheek who…lived in a land over the seas. ‘This great king is now your king,’ he said. This was strange news. For this land was ours…We had no king, we elected our Councils and they made our laws. With patience, our leading Elders tried to tell this to the Pink Cheek…But at the end he said, ‘This we know, but it spite of this what I have told you is a fact. You have now a king…and his laws are your laws. • Chief Kabongo of the Kiduyu in Kenya

5. 4. • Using the murder of two German missionaries as an excuse, Germany landed troops in Shantung in 1897 and proceeded to extract from China (1898) a treaty granting extensive rights in Shantung. By its terms, Germany obtained a ninety-nine-year lease of a naval base site at Kiaochow (Jiaoxian) on the southern coast of Shantung and the exclusive right to furnish all foreign capital and materials for projects in Shantung. Added to these sweeping rights were specific railway concessions and mining rights in the province. The monopoly on capital investment in Shantung province gave Germany a claim to a sphere of influence in China stronger than that of any other power. • Encyclopedia of the New American Nation

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7. 6. • The present situation is becoming daily more difficult. The various Powers cast upon us looks of tiger-like voracity, hustling each other to be first to seize our innermost territories. . . . Should the strong enemies become aggressive and press us to consent to things we can never accept, we have no alternative but to rely upon the justice of our cause. . . . If our . . . hundreds of millions of inhabitants . . . would prove their loyalty to their emperor and love of their country, what is there to fear from any invader? Let us not think about making peace. • TsuHsi

8. 7. • Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child… • Take up the White Man's burden--Have done with childish days--The lightly proferred laurelThe easy, ungrudged praise.Comes now, to search your manhoodThrough all the thankless yearsCold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,The judgment of your peers! • Rudyard Kipling

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10. 9. • Perhaps the English may try to assure the Hindus that as the Muslims have consented to give up killing cows from respect for the Hindu religion, they will do the same, and will ask the Hindus to join them against the Muslims. But no sensible man will be gulled by such deceit, for the promises of the English are deceitful. Once their ends are gained they will renege on their promises for deception is habitual with them. The treachery they have practiced on the people of Hindustan is known to rich and poor. • Moulavy

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12. 11. • It is a glorious history our God has bestowed upon His chosen people; a history heroic with faith in our mission and our future; a history of statesmen who flung the boundaries of the Republic out into unexplored lands and savage wilderness; a history of soldiers who carried the flag across blazing deserts and through the ranks of hostile mountains, even to the gates of sunset; a history of a multiplying people who overran a continent in half a century…The American people can not use a dishonest medium of` exchange; it is ours to set the world its example of` right and honor. We can not fly from our world duties; it is ours to execute the purpose of a fate that has driven us to be greater than our small intentions. We can not retreat from any soil where Providence has unfurled our banner; it is ours to save that soil for liberty and civilization. • Albert Beveridge

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14. 13. • …[T]he urgent duty of our America is to show herself as she is, one in soul and intent, rapidly overcoming the crushing weight of her past and stained only by the fertile blood shed by hands that do battle against ruins and by veins that were punctured by our former masters. The disdain of the formidable neighbor who does not know her is our America's greatest danger, and it is urgent-for the day of the visit is near-that her neighbor come to know her, and quickly, so that he will not disdain her. Out of ignorance, he may perhaps begin to covet her. But when he knows her, he will remove his hands from her in respect. • Jose Marti

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