ORGANIC POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10111, 21 April 1896, Page 3

ORGANIC POLITICS.

TO THE EDITOK. SIR,—At a great meeting in London the other day pro the colonies, chiefs of the two great parties of the State being present, the following words were uttered by the Lord Chief Justice of England, in course of a great speech. lie said : " One thing particularly has to be noted, and that was that the freest Governments had been found not only consistent with but conducive to the closest and most loyal union." Lord Rosebery had previously spoken at the same great meeting, using words of precisely the same signification. Bravo! Years ago 1 discerned, and have more than once expressed the idea, that the highest perfection of organic politics is confederation of autonomous countries. For colonies, self-government with the proper limitations, like town corporations. Many leading politicians have failed to see this, and have seemed to judge the two principles indicated exact opposites and hostile, and some have even spoken of the giving- self-government to a Crown dependency as a "disintegration" of the empire. It is pleasing to see our greatest men opening their eyes upon the truth of the matter. I did think that Ireland should ba constituted a full colony, having three provincial districts — northern, ceutral, and southern, with three Councils, and their only Parliament the Loudon. But England now will not have it.— am, etc., W. E. Sadler. Auckland, New Zealand, April 17,1596.