THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES
BONDS OF EMPIRE, The most human and therefore the most powerful bonds that tie (any union of people, together are those of mutually profitable trade. Kinship, generally growing more distant every year is of little avail in facing the hard facts of life. We cannot live on bonds of sympathy, blood ties and the like too long. Sooner or later must come a more lasting cohesion than that. And we have found it to some extent in what we to-day call Imperial preference. It follows, then, that, if we admit that our only avenue of expanding of export trade lies within the Empire, we must also admit the [potency of mutually profitable trade" towards Empire solidarity. It then becomes our bounden duty to increase to its utmost our present system of Imperial preference.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1930, Page 4
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137THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1930, Page 4
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