THINGS SAID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 613, 16 September 1909, Page 8

THINGS SAID.

Tho,following extracts .from" recent speeches by;men,of note, representing various'.parts 'oi, the , Empire tire . .taken from the "Standard." !ot ; Umpire" of 'August (S:— Kight Hon. Sir Josoph "Ward (Prime Minister. , xif; .'Newl- Zealand) —In .. all; - the ... oversea dominions .to-day the white 'population.isi probably within 13: millions iof : people, but to say f: that -in >100 years' time it will ; number 100 millions; is ' not, ; .'I think, an: over-estimate. The oversea dominions are ■ : growing: more powerful every, .day,, and '.they are ; anxious to tako /upon their 6houlders a 6h'are of the burdeni of . Empire defence borne by the Mother Jountry. ' . .. ' ■: : .. /The 'Earl, of Crowe (Secretary of State for Greater . Britain).—X , feel 6nre that' everybody present (theJnaugural banquet of the British Lmpi.ro Club), will, agree that, desirous, as we all ard, that the Empire ,6hould. ba united'in avery rcspect, it is particularly important that it should vbo: united in the Sphereof private social' relations. Wo . may exchange dispatches, and hold conferences; but- unless there; is; something of daily, habitual; friendly the peoples oversea and the peoples _here, we .shall not feel that the unity of the Empire has-been, fully .achieved. " <Gene'rar Smuts . (Colonial Secretary>of* the Transvaal).-rbince.; the days of William, of Orange .no, -foreign foo has ovei- set foot in Great Britain. We, on the other hand, in another-part;of the .world, have learned to know what.war;means. I am certain' that if .a small, amount '.of the-experience, which ivo wen^ through could;be at thp' disposal of tho: people of .these islands it would certainlv teach- wisdom: to some of thorn. There is the material in: South,: Africa for the best defence force which'any country nf that size has ever scon. ■; I cannot' doubt that if the::nccessitv aroso, all that .experience .and would be available for, the defence of South Africa and of .tho Empire. - ■ . Mr. Haldano (Secretary of Slate for. War) - There: is only.-one maxim': which-we can lav down ,on tho ouestion :of defence, and that i< , Iho British, Lmpire, one and indivisible/' 3 believe that .this is .the maxim . upon l , which the attention of tho Defcnco Conference i< concentrated. ;£.•'\ . • , •• ' _Tho Hon.. A.-- Fischer * (Premier of tlie Orange Ilivor Colony): Orangia has always kept' hei word,'oven in the most difficult circumstances Aow : Orangiai has'given her word to the Empire, and . that word will be kept. • ■ $