SENTIMENT AND TRADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 124, 28 May 1925, Page 6

SENTIMENT AND TRADE.

t The Trime Minister of Britain is a ] practical idealist, and his Empire Pay ' message shows this quality of hi 3 mind. ! Realising the power of sentiment a= a \ link of Empire, lie appeals for its r encouragement, but lie has far too much ' I common sense not to know that material j ties are also potent, and he accordingly deprecates "the belittlement of the material side of the partnership." We | < are told that man does not live by bread j: alone, but not that he does not need I ' J bread. There is nothing to be ashamed I * lof in the fact that commerce is a link of I, I Empire. There coincides with Mr. j i Baldwin's appeal a movement -to I ' popularise Dominion poods in Britain. | ? jit is even more important, pihco the h ! Dominions are more prosperous than the i J Motherland, with her army of unem- ' j ployed, that buyers in the Dominions, ' j business firms and housewives alike, .' J should choose British goods wherever i■■ possible in preference to foreign. I ' -Mr. Baldwin, like many other Britons, ' is not satisfied with the term ' "Empire," and suggests either that it should be given a. new meaning or J that the title "Commonwealth of British ! ( Nations" should be substituted. Coming M from the leader of the Conservatives this \) is significant. It. is not easy, however.!' to make the change. The Empire is ! ] partly an Empire and partly a Common- t wealth. Besides, the word "Empire" is ' ' so much the more convenient. Publicists ' who write serious articles for reviews * may prefer to use the cumbrous phrase "Commonwealth of British Xations," but > the average journalist and citizen will 1 continue to use "Empire."' 1