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views expressed by these can best be given in a few extracts from their letters. The Bishop of Algoma says, " Nothing in my judgment is more needed or better calculated to promote the cause of Imperial unity and progress than the proposal you have laid before me in your letters. And I am firmly convinced that you are right in saying that, for the present, what we should seek first and above all else is a better knowledge of each other as the true basis upon which Imperial institutions may be built securely when the time is ripe." Rev. Dr. Armstrong, of Ottawa: "1 hail with patriotic delight anything that will tend to bring the various parts of our great Empire into closer and more sympathetic union. It seems to me you have put the first things first when you advocate an Imperial Intelligence Department. It is certainly in the line of progress, and pre-eminently safe. The opportune time will come for something more, but unions on paper without carrying the intelligence are unsafe and often hurtful." Rev. Dr. Barclay, St. Paul's Church, Montreal: "My sympathies are entirely and enthusiastically with you in your wise and practical proposals." Rev. Dr. Milligan, Toronto: "I think the Greater Britain must be a growth, like its predecessor, in order to be healthy and strong. Men are too ready to intermeddle with Providence. He that believeth in a great British future will not make haste. The spread of knowledge in the way you indicate and the assimilations which time alone can effect are the surest means of giving us an Empire, which 1 (rust God will use as a mighty instrument in the promotion of peace and prosperity in the world." The late Archbishop O'Brien, of Halifax: "It seems to me your proposal in your letters addressed to the Canadian Club is practicable, and would be a first step towards unity of the Empire." The Bishop of Nova Scotia: "Your proposals are fully in accord with my own views. The strangely vague ideas which residents in different parts of the Empire have of each other and their various resources and capabilities would readily give place to a definite conception of the possibilities of all. Your proposals are both sensible and practical." The Bishop of Niagara: " I am in hearty agreement with your views. . . . There is no doubt that the Imperial Intelligence Department must precede the formation of an Imperial Council, and in fact lead up to it. The former can be entered upon immediately, and with small expense. It will be the forerunner of the latter. lam sure that on this point the largest possible consensus of opinion will be with you." The Bishop of Ottawa: "There can be no doubt that free and frequent intercourse between the people in all parts of the Empire must promote that nearer acquaintance which produces and promotes mutual confidence and which will bring us all in one; and the intelligent, powerful union of the British Empire means a great deal not only for the English-speaking people, but for the nations of the world generally." Rev. Dr. Potts, Toronto: " There is no doubt that this movement is growing and is tending more and more to the unity of the Empire. Imperial unity is not a thing to be hurried too fast, but nothing will tend to draw the various parts of the Empire together as much as information." From these extracts, which are more or less fully indorsed in the other letters referred to, it seems clear that men who may fairly be regarded as representing the educated opinion of Canada are in remarkable agreement upon this subject. It might, indeed, be difficult to find any other subject on which all these writers would be so cordially and emphatically agreed. This fact may in no small measure affect the views of thoughtful men in other parts of the British Empire. For ourselves, we hope that those who have been most actively engaged in bringing this important matter before the notice of Canadians may find it attract the lively and sympathetic interest of British subjects everywhere. To quote once more from one of the documents in this State paper regarding the expressions of opinion already referred to: " The views expressed by these gentlemen may fairly be regarded as the voice of Canada. They are in substantial agreement with the recorded opinions of the commercial men of the Empire, and it can scarcely be doubted that they will be found in accord with prevailing opinions in the United Kingdom, in New Zealand, in Australia, and in South Africa. All heard from are substantially of one mind as to the establishment of a great channel of communication, linking together in an electric girdle the self-governing British communities. They appear to think that it is of transcendent importance to inaugurate an Imperialcable service, which, while satisfying in the highest degree the needs of commerce, would at the same time perform the functions of a continuous spinal cord encircling the globe, by and through which would freely flow every national aspiration, every sympathetic impulse of the British people in every longitude and latitude." With all of which we heartily agree. [Here follows a chart [not printed] of system of Empire cables.] {Tel. 07/327.) Approximate Coat of Paper— Preparation, not given; printing (1,575 oopieei, f22 J7«. o<l.

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