THE ASIATIC QUESTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 419, 4 August 1908, Page 2

THE ASIATIC QUESTION.

And the Colonic

London, Satqr ; -v In the Home of Common'?, ; ,c. Col. Seely (Colonial Unde:-Seciv ; y' on the motion for adjouram' ,r <t to :-t October, admitted that thf A.;: i

question in the Colonies tfas whelraingly important The future of the Empire depended®"f| the present steps and a false i i might shatter it. Great Britain* not to adopt a superior tone i the colonies, with whom the quo was more acute than in Europe.

are bound to admit that the sc

eruing coLnies could exclude they would and we could not fere,” he continued. “ Certain

ciplcs, however, might be laid f if immigrants are admitted . n; sooner or later be given civil they must be admitted free or • ; all.” If self-governing colonies-ecu to exclude British subjects owing

economic reasons—to prevent being cut down—or because of cli

conditions, or social antipathy n

causing of riots, they ought at r to treat with the utmost gen. ) the coloured immigrants alr r ' . j

The Imperial Government asked A for them, and the request had been by Canada in the friendliest spirit, was confident that the Government"* Australasia and South Africa w«j show the same spirit in realising( necessity for mutual j He agreed that the Imperir’ ~• tariat should take the mat®, he believed it was necessaA' . the Seci'etariat real, namely, the c? ing house of the Empire, wb'

different laws might b ~ exa reported on, enabling ■ cry Empire to know what was

in other parts. r Sir Gilbert Parker said it was ' ,§sntial (hat the structure of National life should be built from the. beginning by whiles ; otherwise it would be rotten. Col. Seely’s words would be re-echoed in every corner of the Empire, added Sir Gilbert, and he commended the Government for taking the right view of appealing to the colonies and conferring with them.