BRITAIN'S BRIGHT FUTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16210, 7 December 1926, Page 6

BRITAIN'S BRIGHT FUTURE

SIR ABE BAILEY'S FAITH. KEIGHLEY (Yorkshire), 'Oct. 21. Sir Abe Bailey, speaking at Keighley to-night to the boys of his old school,' said: "The character and! spirit of the English people earned! England through its revolutionary period and is going to carry Great Britain and the. Umpire through the testing time, we are now experiencing. " The opponents of England think that as a commercial nation she is done, but the day of Britain's strength lias not yet passed, and those enemies who expeet to seo as their reward the destruction of her industries will be disappointed. "Owing to other countries making themselves self-contained 1 by protecting their own national industries, problems of an essentially new and difficult kind are confronting England. "I am an optimist, however, and do not think there is a famine of good men, full of alert patriotism, in England who will enable her to overcome) these great difficulties which appear to the outside world so crushing. " I believe that there is much suppressed! prosperity in England, and that there are better times ahead. "We must all realise that England's prosperity is bound up with the extension of a commerce with the Dominions. The future of the Empire depends on the development of the Dominions, and that is the aim of our Empire statesmen. "A strong and powerful England means a united British Empire, and it cannot be well with the Dominions unless it is well with England. The British Empire is holding humanity together and preventing chaos in the world."