BRITAIN'S IDEALS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 137, 14 June 1927, Page 3

BRITAIN'S IDEALS

NOT MATERIAL GAIN

THE STANDARD OF HUMANITY

In acknowledging the welcome extended to the members of the British Trade delegation by the Brjtish Manufacturers' Association test night, Sir Archibald Boyd-Carpenter remarked that there was something far greater behind the object of their mission than the mere business instinct, essential as that might be. There was a community of spirit and ideas throughout the British Empire which was great. We had taught the world something during the war which the world had to know and wanted to know, and had given of our best. New Zealand gave 14,000 Jives and sent the largest quota of men of any part of the British Dominions. Did they die for nothing? They died for d great ideal. Some might say we prided ourselves too much upon that but he did not think so. As a race we had always had before our eyes the great ideal of raising the standard of Humanity, and in doing so had strengthened the Empire so as to give it the power and the right to show an example to other nations. The strength, and.the strength alone, of our Empire would give us the power to enforce the universal peace that all right-thinkine people hoped would come some day We want also the strength that comes from mutual counsel and understanding," he said, "and resultant £l On\, We want mwtual trade. . . Should all these things fail, and should the critics win in this conflict between idealism and enthusiasm, then down goes everything that wo cherinh in this world. Our fight to-day is not for our own gain, but for that material gain which will enable us to maintain the idealism we inherit. If we fail our forefathers, they, from the other sphere, will appea l to us to speak the words they spoke before they died. We must feel that they fought for a fand n, 1- H\ They f°"*ht that