MODERN ROMANS

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 752, 26 February 1910, Page 10

MODERN ROMANS

r-.fLOED'''CROMER :ON' ; BRITISH:;; / V Addressing .the business' meeting.'. > legX-:"-LoriVCrpmB^^'.6Qmpareil\tlie-',ESman : ' ■■andAth'e>Britijlt ! -;i^jr^A'\STKe:-*;:tota , jopulatipn ?'oi' ■itha*'Eomiiii'-Enipire at'-its.' greatest extent'Vas'less thah'lOO'millions," sjiread ''ofer-'ttfo: inillidiySauare >miles. 'of country, as compared • to ■. the 350. millions bdeupying ,ll}Vmillion: square, miles ioveri vrhieh .the•.British'..flag: flies.,V'Eorne,' ■e'iiially!.'.with:.- the , V(modem" expansive. Powers,: Bfitain?an &. ' Russiai .was ■.■impelled ; onwards by- the ■imperious'';anil /.-.irresistible- ..'.necessity, of ; acquiring.l'defensible-Ifrqiitiers."..v vvlir,.',. {:The;&6thods!qf-'Romans •■'and i) British: weroV'tds'o'i'yei'y/'similar. SJn:;bpth bases. undauhte4;'a.udacity. ; ; characterised';, their,. .prociedings'ii'STKere-.was.inffact, 'a'goed;j deal : .bfsimirar-.ity, between-the Roman and British'; •'character.. / 'Both V:nations''■.'ap-; peered'; to :' the'Vbest -.. advantage > in -critical' ■times.'-- 1 -;;; *}'k;?>?'\\ ■ ''■■ vj'.\'-, '■-, <: ■■"■■ '• ::>•',' ■.'■'' v \ ; i ;;: Much;- had: been\written of- the inability/ of modem'Eurdpean.OPo.wers to, ;subjeetvrace^irlt.ffai ; .jjrj'igenerally..)ibrd--;. ih tho"British;i»^hat' : therei\raK' Eqmej.trutKvin'-'thnt-gtatem'ent-lip of the , "-masapfithe^ljbpiilation.'.;-,The:,Mosi'; leih'' who,- speaking.- : abput the ; English...to' ■Professor'yanibbry,vsai.d ) y.''Black..is:.lMir' justice;".'-.p'resentfe'd;' , a ! phasp-!of; thought, .veryrxommon -iimong-Asiatics.■■■■irv-i-; Sf ; -There, had-been' no;.thbrpugli ; fusion, ,'no real; assimilation !be'hvecn the British' and. ■their';, alien , 'subjects,-'and- so far "'as-they could.i now. predict-.the;:future. %puld in', '.this; respect ibe , ~l>ut: . .a;:iepetitipn."''pf-'the;: '.'::' .''- ; !..-.'.'--.■,'..■ ■'■ ■:■[■'■-■ /,-", . .(What '•: answer, would j ! .the'modern.. Tm-. perialist'give.to.'tho 'question quo tadis? Tho Englishman would'be'puzzled to give' any. , definite. answer,- for:he .was always 1 striving to; attain ; two -ideals which were' . apt ■to be. mutually;: destructiyerrthe ideal ,- oi good-government arid the ideal:of'self-gpyernment^lt.-would iho-j.Tvell-for,' : Bng- ; land, j f orilndiai - and>,best, of .-.all ~f or■ ihe- cause.'of| •prpgreseiyd•>.;cjvilisation' v ':jn' general-.'ifUt'were- clearly. 'iiriderst.ood..fro*m,. the .outset ;that,AhpweVer,-liberal: ! might; .be ;;the ; concessions-: had ■'•now;. been : madefand'which'atrany fjiture time'might be;made,-wo.-.had,not the:;smallest.inteh- ; . tipn:pf abandoning-'our Indian possessions.;