THE EMPIRE.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11735, 18 September 1906, Page 3

THE EMPIRE.

MR. CHURCHILL'S VIEWS.' Received September 17, 10.16 p.m. ■;■ Londen September 17. Mr Churchill, in his letter to Mr Greenwood, cabled on tbe 7th, admitted that the confidence shown by Canadian and Australian Statesmen

in the one sot of British politicians with whom they had long been accustomed to deal, in a great measure worthily repaid them for the conservative predominance synchronized with ana generously aideil the growth of the Imperial ideas. There are now new men with other princii/bs and different methods, but no change in central impulse or aspirations as their ultimate aim. Canada's and Australasia's progress and prosperity was largely ascribed to Liberal social principles, which had been carried too far in some ways— to* far more logical extremes ~th H n in the Motherland; The Empire had nothing to fear in Liberalism, by wnope Imperinl principles of _. Colonial antpnomy,

lofty humanity and peaceful foreign policy the structural cohesion of the Empire alone had been achieved anrt maintained.