" IMPERIALISM."

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 138, 7 December 1907, Page 13

" IMPERIALISM."

THE EMPIRE-BUILDER. ' Mr. Rudyard Kipling, in an inspiring address 'at'the Canadian Club at Toronto his subject being "Imperialism," said the idea of the Empire as a community of men of allied race, identical by reason of comradeship, comprehension J and sympathy, was no neAV thing. It grew up in the. hearts of tho people Avith their natural groAvth. "No one," nursued Mr. Kipling, "can 'say Avheie it as born, b,ut all knoAv one man avlio in our time gave its present life" to the grand . conception. Our children avill tell their sons of the statesman Avho, in the evening of his days, crowned Avith years and honour, beheld what our Empire might be made : who » stepped aside from the sheep-track of little politicians: Avho put from' him -case, comfort, and friendship, and lost even health itself that he might inspire and lead the young generation to follow him along the new path. ' l We ourselves are too near tht man and his work to understand the full significance of Mr. Joseph Chamberlain. It is the high tradition of our land that in moments -of need a, man shall not be Avanting to do and to dare, and, if need be, die for his people. It is the custom 1 of our land to accept that sacrifice as a matter of course, always withonl thanks, and often Avith ungenerous criticism." •