ORDERED LIBERTY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 88, 24 January 1938, Page 4

ORDERED LIBERTY.

“Each succeeding generation is only dimly conscious of the progress made by previous generations,” said the Canadian Minister of Finance, Mr C. A. Dunning, in a recent address. “The citizen of the British Commonwealth of to-day starts life Avith all the advantages, material, moral and social,

which have been won by all who have gone before. He .naturally, therefore, tends to take for granted, as commonplace, all the hard-won attainments of the past. I sometimes think that it would add greatly to our appreciation of British institutions if suddenly, some morning, we could awake in the world of 1537 and live in that past century for a weelc or two. I venture to say that on returning to 1937 we should have a very much higher appreciation of the value of many things which we now take for granted. The greatest responsibility of Empire at this time is to see to it that every citizen knows and appreciates keenly all that ordered liberty under the British Crown means to the individual, to the nation, and to the Commonwealth. Thus we may be sure that our steady march to human progress and betterment will go on and on because it is the will of a free people.