BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES.
SPEECH BY MR. CHAMBERLAIN
LONDON, November 4.
Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Glasgow, said that patriotism had become a democratic passion. Those who- had given the colonies home rule expected that the colonies would soon declare their independence of policy. The suggestion of the desirability of clearing them out, however, at any public gathering would mean the utter discomfiture of that policy, and no English Minister would again suggest separation. The most satisfactory signs were the demands for closer union coming from the colonies, though the exact form in which this should be brought about was not now of so much importance. The prospect of a really united empire was now becoming a question of practical politics.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 257, 5 November 1897, Page 5
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