IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 2 September 1914, Page 4

IMPERIAL PREFERENCE.

It may bo too soon to discuss methods for consolidating and maturing a scheme for Empire preference, and trading within ourselves. The magnificent spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifice that is stimulating our peoples in the hour of national pen 1 can, however, have but one climax, and that is the galvanising of the Empire into an indissoluble whole, which shall lie unassailable' in commerce, in science, in literature, anu in civilisng agencies. When the conflict in which w.e are now desperately engaged shall have passed, and the cavf>e of righteousness shall have prevailed, our first duty will be to take stock of our position as a vast and expanding Empire, and consider how best we can preserve that Empire in the interests of freedom, justice, truth, and civilisation. Wo shall have to bring our best intellects to bear in creating national aspirations, national ideals, and national developments. The whole of onr system of trading, of defence, of education, must be brought under revieWj and wo must realise more fully our national responsibilities as we conserve our national greatness. On the horizon of this grim struggle for a brighter, a, better, a more prospera brighter, a better, a more prosper ous era in the history of our great and glorious Empire.