To such as believe that the quaint product called French civilization would be an improvement upon the civilization of New Guinea and the like, the snatching of Madagascar and the laying on of French civilization there will be fully justified.

But why did the English allow the French to have Madagascar?
Did she respect a theft of a couple of centuries ago?
Dear me, robbery by European nations of each other's territories has never been a sin, is not a sin to-day.

To the several cabinets the several political establishments of the world are clotheslines; and a large part of the official duty of these cabinets is to keep an eye on each other's wash and grab what they can of it as opportunity offers.

All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash.

No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty, occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.