THINGS SAID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 615, 18 September 1909, Page 11

THINGS SAID.

Tho following extracts from recent epeechee by men of note representing various parts ,ot the Empire are taken from the "Standard ol Empire" of August 6:— ; ' . Colonol the Hon. J. F. Foxton (Australia's delegate to the Empire Defence Conference).— Australia is proparod to ' contribute not ■ only her men, but her material resources to the'utmost, in order to take her due share in maintaining' not only the integrity of the Empire, but what is essential to that integrity—its supremacy upon tho oceans of the.world. Sir Edward Grey: (Secretary of State for Foroign Affairs).—lt is not merely or ' mainly by length of service that we romember .the late Lord Salisbury. It is from the timo that thd late Lord Salisbury first became Primo Minister as well as Foroign Secretary that we may date tho . period during which foreign affairs havo ceased to bo an element in .party controversies. • ■■/-..■'■ - , Lord Rosebory.—No school, perhaps, of its size, or of nny size,, has moro to do with the work of moulding men who are to carry W the work of Empire than Wellington College. It is. not merely tho illustrious name which it bears which gives it this inspiration, but the fact, which, 1 believe, is true, that , no school:sends so many of its boys oversea throughout .the Empiro as does Wellington College; ._.r.tliink that men will have to bo more universally armed in the future .than they are now. ■■''■ ■■.'.■■ ''■.:■■■■ ..' •.; ■ The Right Hon. F. R. Moor (Premier of Natal) •., British South Africa will bo one of the big countries of tho world. In the cessfnl, quelling of the Natal robellion the people of Natal rendered signal service to tho whole of South Africa. The white people of Natal aro determined to govern their country, thoy will not havo their authority "challenged, but their endeavour will always be to give fair play to theinatives. ;■ ~ ■:. Tho Deputy Lord Mayor of Sheffield (at luncheon given to the "Standard of Empire'o" party of Canadian High School, students): I hope that, in view of what our young vintois have seen here to-day, in ; the works of Messrs. \ lclicrs, ■ Sons, and Maxim, and in Sheffield, they -will realise that; England is not quite so effete a country as she is sometimes represented to De—even , by' Canadian 'writers.';'-. . Keir Hardio, M.P,-The first "work for bocialists is to get control- of-. the. - political machine,' and.becomo masters of both tho'Armv and Navy.;-/ ..;■ ~,;.-.,■.; .■■.,,'.:V';.v :; .v : :-,- •"*■