22nd December.
Writ the fi policy of the ex-Colonial Secre' no out and out Free Trader can be expected to -Jagree for a moment, yet this in-in the Far Eastern crisis. Article compatibility need blind any one to the obvious skill and ability XII of the Treaty says that: "'The with which Mr. Chamberlain is con-Chinese Government agrees that, upon the exchange of the ratifications ducting his oratorical campaign, His of this Treaty, Moukden and Antung, speeches have evidently made a deep both in the province of Shengking, ito pression, hardly to be wondered will be opened by China itself as at since he is putting old facts in a places of international residence and new light, and asking attention to trade," ete. If the United States some points which however obvious seem to have escaped attention calls upon China to implement this agreement, the latter Power may call hitherto. upon the former to assist her, by In one of his recent speeches he diplomacy if not by force, in doing so. made a point which docs not seem tis to be doubted whether the to have been caught either by his success of the Labour Party in the audience or his critics. We are accustomed to hear from our rivals elections in Australia is altogether a and other friends that Britain is at Commonwealth. Sound as labour omen for, the future of the best decadent. Mr. Chamberlain on the other hand boldly maintains that parties everywhere may be at heart. they often show little wisdom in the British Empire is in its infaney—their choice of leaders. It is very a growing, healthy, vigorous childhood. For a nation whose much to the Labour Party's exaggerated determination to keep "Flag has braved a thousand years "Phe battle and the breeze," Australia "a white man's country" that the fact is due that a continent this. may sound rhetorical and nearly as large as Europe has only nothing more. Perhaps the ex-Seeretsome four million inhabitants; for ary's audience so took it, But a this determination has not been} little serious consideration will show merely to keep the country for white that it is no mere oratorical flourish men, but to keep it as faras possible to say that, so far as human nature for the white men who are now in it. may foresee, the British Empire, The Commonwealth cannot advance great as it now is, is but the promise of what is will be. We have but as its motto bids it do, without more liberal legislation than the Labour to cast a glance over the map Party seems likely to approve. of the world, note the red splashes The continued opposition which dot it every here und there, the "Quarterly Review" and the enquire int" their resources, consider "Standard" shows that the serious their development, and sum up the section of the Conservative party is results. And to do this with tolerable the whole of the) accuracy it is' but necessary to look at that great off-shoot which is- no prender of itself than the Mother ganda. The lines put by Mr. Owen Country is of it, the United States, Seaman. into Mr. Chamberlain's to keep our estimates within due "ud reasonable bounds. Foras the United mouth in "Punch" of the 11th ult, anticipate the Standard's States are to-day, so may Canada be to-morrow, Australia the day after, charge and South Africa next month.
"Tam the Empire's, you will please Canada has roughly some 5,000,000 Hers both to live and die—for!
remark, inhabitants. It is not so very long ago that English people thought choice, to live—And, so I serve her needs, were well content.
To sign myself Dictator, nothing Canada synonymous with frigidity, that her climate was fit only for Arctic foxes and Polar bears, that life was insupportable under. the terrible conditions with which nature
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