A COLONIAL SHARE OF ENGLAND.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12825, 8 June 1907, Page 7

A COLONIAL SHARE OF ENGLAND.

"A Colonial,"* who is * : HBallarat man, judging from btt referi : iji encee to fhe statues in tlie wide streets - • of his native town, writes in the'Ldn*. v! don "Daily Telegraph" of Australia V 7 right by inheritance to share in the 7-; f. glorias of British history and liter*. • ture. "It was iv 1847," ho says, "__•*'77 my father left th© Bay of St. Ives, .is f.fi Cornwall, to go out to tlie land af pro- ' niiso that was calling him—the M_*f--;,'•;. on© of his family who left. In 1907, 7 when only ono of those wht • said good-bye to him is elite. ta welcome mo, I oome back, lfo was ono of tlio rnco who wrot/wl_.V3. but who never left tho flag, and! who'-■'.,-never torgot the flag. In th© fullness. - of time tho raco looks nack ■-■ for it is always homeward, and I ana ■ a unit of returning representatives* .',; Wo come back, not te frtay. God torhid: For in the pla<x._ whore the outo« .','- :- ---! parti 01 the Empiro are building, wwr nave our own h-cstage_ to fortune/M* . - 1 latiiei- went al'ur, but tfia heartstrings ." were stretched from hia native land. Tho vibration from there always reach* ,;v; ea him. To th<»© of us who wen© bom .:. in tho colonies, there waa a' repegginfl .''V." down of tho string,, and th© heert.\-v strotch is onco again across tbe <omm_ >; \\h_i 1 get bao_ to. the-Hay 0f..•: Sfci \."; Ives, where th© story of my father 1 * ;-. lather lives, there will be a knitting t©» ' ■' gather of the string that haa lambed ■■•-:} round tlie gLobo. When that is doneL :■;' h>. the story of the Em-pit-, in the •mall -;r----.utttior of ono unknown "man's-life ia V' complete, and the musio leverberatM \.' to the spot it started from,' getting • >", renewed strength where it tonotoi mother earth in tho far-off countqj which is.na.tiv© to mc. . *'; 7V. ■ ■'■■ .1 "What is uiy lot is only the Jot of -, 7 • thousands. Whero I peg down tho». sands peg down also, and when j*biY*§\ have not one, but many thouaanda «l ;-4 singing strings, rooted frrst in the'Br»# .$ ish isle©, pegged down in theparts of th© _mpire, and carried bbmmm te tho Motherland, and tied up at -be WM starting-point, then you have tfre tery ot the British Empire* e_Api"« solution of tlio mystery as to can bo n distinct; nationalsV;i»|« Canada, South Africa, and _Ottra_WS-i and on Imperialism which ,ia eo.TOaeS.j|§ part of that nationalism may not be separated.' -■ ging-down of th© tar-oft part, you hay© '"'the * kutUeibiiiM, growth, and from that national the stretching back to the Motberleji*.! 1 m There is no interruption The raoo oomos back, andtW -<il>r4tt&||| en the strings is the stronger lwoausvll at th© tutnmg-point,-there7ip-;*:ii*te« ing-place -where the stock'strength. It is so hard for a LittWM Knclander to undenatand that lands across th© sea, whai« tru© democracies, there' oa4''liM : militant Imperialism, bttt th*'-*kin«|fiffl not difficult. The England of story i« not the sole-right of-the _3#Jl who lives in England.- ■ I\»^(_a»* : ' ; the right of all those-to story bellongs, and it■ th© i*eoe out of Errand, cc, those in England. ■ ~ ■ :,-. ■■:.'"• "It fell to my lot.to :/ Englander over my n»ti?e year ago. ' The main strsst ;tfiMiil% town is wide, and" hka ' —"i \_r ''"'ttitlloßl There is Robort Itatf,■ .DjmfiffM said the Tisiter; Vbo pot hl« The Sootchmon.V I JrSSMSi on I took my hat off to QneetirVfeMgßH Ah/ he said, carelessly, %b© .<MJaKB_I 'Yea,' I 'Our 6ld Lad/I' tKil came Thomas Moore, '.."■' hereP' The Irishmen, aidl -C-i j SS_ii a mvtter of. • little" time,' I tho Englishmen will in thertr«et^-':-.,f_atj'?iJid 'tibWmmWlM ped, with a you - put up "omething - yourselyes.f twlou toTSflil enawered. J '-Ttor/ .deeper- puwle.' 'Well, ther WM_lC___i our fathers, did "they '■ notFWfIKMHi course.' 'Well, our fatbers to ns, and they are tt S __ * ■ _- a ■*""_'--' _' _-' J*^""*_'Mt"l-l*K_i\_ . "And a sacrod right of is, too. The England-ol soMiSiili story is not- bounded by - -theV:B«_HiSMi Channel.-."Jti bounds are,tha <••«*§s ment of the race, : _nd '-"we,- _an_rJliißffl sands of miles away,: are' bounds,- and wiH be so vibrating string hold, ''of the-. Motherland caTTi«a' r teYbb^bbmmm the Motherland. So ' : -irs' back home," and ' teke'-- f'-oif ":i|33ii hats when.' w© see. Dover, for the land behind them Is«Sml land. . .To. ua the Colonial .flSfi ference is tho -deed of. charter which.--admits ; . us to-'i&iprWW leges of the' government of piro, and also to "'tr rnapnß_lrfli>ii___f both moral and financial. '