THE POLICY OF IMPERIALISM.
SPEECH BY MR CHAMBERLAIN,
LONDON, October 25.'
Sir Michael 'Hicks-Beach (Chancellor of the Exchequer), speaking at the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce dinner, justified the' British consistent policy in China. He disagreed with the idea of preferential treatment of the colonies against other countries, but was hopeful of a common scheme of defence between the Empire and her colonies.
The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, on assuming the freedom of the Fishanongers' Company, spoke at the banquet which followed. What, he asked, would be the head-line for the opening chapter of the century? The country had already replied and supplied it. It wojild be "A' United Empire." We were 'all Imperialists now. We had abandoned the craven fear of being great. Within the next 12 months the Empire would be born anew. The colonies had stayed our hands, as Aaron and Hur had stayed the hands of Moses till victory had been achieved. Would Britain ever forget? And who would dare repeat that the colonies were an encumbrance?' If disaster or physical convulsion engulfed us, our kinsfolk over the sea Would carry to unknown heights the sceptre of dominion. The' Canadian and Australasian Federations pointed to a fiouth African Federation, and a still greater federation of the Empire.
THE POLICY OF IMPERIALISM.
Otago Witness, Issue 2433, 31 October 1900, Page 13
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