STATE BANQUET.
SPEECH BY SIR E. BARTON
By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright Ottawa, Sept. 0. Sir E. Barton, in the courso of a speech ut the Toronto Board of Trade banquet, said that 20 years hence, when the population of autonomous colonies equalled Great Britain’s, they would not submit to have their destinies controlled by the Motherland without having a voice in the matter. ITe complimented British statesmen on their grasp of tho priuciplo of the colonies’ autonomy. Referring to Imperial trade he dwelt on the great need of elasticity in any proposals expected to run the gauntlet. So many parliaments would have been useless. The Imperial Conference might have prepared a scheme likely to be upset by defeat in one out of many parliaments. It was only possible, to come to a goneral understanding, for each Premier to propose measures of preference in trade, either by lowering duties against British goods, or loaving them untouched but raising tho duties against foreign goods.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 511, 6 September 1902, Page 2
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