While the 'merit' of imperialism is that it 'trains the Negro to habits of industry' (not without coercion of course.), the 'danger' of imperialism is that Europe 'will shift the burden of physical toil first agricultural and mining, then the more arduous toil in industry on to the colored races, and itself be content with the role of rentier, and in this way, perhaps, pave the way for the economic, and later the political emancipation of the colored races.'