on the American continent. Her attitude towards Mexico has been extremely threatening.
In the year 1914 the homeland territories of the six Great Powers amounted in all to about six million square miles. The total area of their colonial possessions at the same date was approximately thirty million square miles.
It need hardly be said that in the first instance such robberies were effected at the expense of the lesser countries, of those that were unprotected and weak. They were the first to be ruined. Just as in the struggle between the manufacturers and the independent artisans the latter were the first to succumb, so here. The great State trusts, the great capitalists organised for robbery, began by smashing the lesser governments and seizing their possessions. In the world economy, the centralisation of capital advanced along the familiar lines; the lesser States were ruined while the large robber States grew richer, larger, and more powerful.
As soon as they had annexed the whole world, they began to