A NEW BRITISH EMPIRE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 197, 4 August 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

A NEW BRITISH EMPIRE.

A new Empire js being born out oi ti.o t t; a ;! °, f ,Var ' ,vllose Nations w,t!, o .Mother Country v ill b e tl'tfercnt when peace comes. I n - • espect, indeed, the wa r itSelf has a |_ 1.-U-L- t v , 1)68:111 t0 a half he Dominions have gi ven thPeriod In aUy • 1 1 s!tt 3 aDd ° th6rs «"»• "Zd? o emea and are Ai + r discussed m Canada. - is iahu and Xe« Zealand. The «i<r_ antc 01 ' n< -'vitablo happening £ ;r; n « V lr - A - Uyatt c ,Kt tllal tliese men who will " 10 creat( ve work a l ter the dc Z lWtJre WOlk ol will *, ia l diiic-rent men. " They will want c, y assured," h e *, ySj •• that (v , ,a ''f ht na PP">S again, it I[j;lv ' nO /' ,,n ° t0 P r ot«t that vou never expected war, and, in fact, ignorel warning to get roady tor warUt U ,s terribf y expensive. It ni ay °-y Kl, ™t Poluy for humanity <el pec/ally German humanity) to- allow our industries to bo undermined ami our markets exploited; but that, too ' S ox P° ns| vc.'' .Against these tw.jl dangers only a reorgamsaton of the /'"P" 0 tan sc< 'Uie us, and .Mr. Tilley. a sonnies that the Dominions will ,j 0 - niand a real share -u the m.litary deencj rfiid the industrial security and advancement of the Empire. " Mr l illev & ays :

As to the fir,t, th c share of the Dom,„,o„s m th, ,Wc n « t |„, pire. Tins must lead, directir anrl .Jvitably, to thy Dominions having - 111 Questions of foreign policy for r Zn'f axioni/of statecraft that poli -v (i-ponds on armaments. As for <:-v industrial security of the Empire, tlii eudence we have seen of lorn, a a methods of peaceful penetration has uaturbed even tj ie most orthodox of I, ,S r ' ad^rs ' a "d it is clear that :u ■til tuese matters the policy of the i£rUpue must he iadic;/!y chanf r ?d. i i "ad the other day, for instance. that a tew years ago when Australia wishai to discourage the dumping of German goods and the cutting of British f freights, she iound she could do neither. Ihe reason was this. A commercial treaty between Britain and nouniania stipulated for equal treatment .n all British ports of British and Jioumauian shipping; Jin d the bene-.;, of this clause passed, by reason of other treaties and the "most favored nation agreement, to Germanv. After the war that kind of absurditv, which would never have existed at' all had we had a real imperial industrial poliov *"ill have to he abolished for »ner. B r. that is only the beginning. The whole question of developing the resources t the Kmpiie, of ensuring that the control of its main industries rests in British hands and is used to further i>ntisli and not alion and possibly hostil" interests, will have thorougnlr to bo into.

This, Mr. 'i'dley admits, is a Uiy., programme, but lie holds thai it i- flo r, beyond achievement. The solution Ji ■

suggests lies not in an overgrown lmperjal i'arliaincnt— arc enough Parliaments already m the British Empire— out in tlia Jmper'aJ Conten ao.', •uid the r-»ht, v. hi eh the war ha - ■ Toughl, for Dominion Prune Ministers 1 > be entered in tile Privy Co;;nc:l, mid tnerefoiv to have th,j privilege i atteniling on occasion the me?t:n_:< <t other Cabinets of the Empire. ,_\.i Jnipenel Conference every second ye;: 1 ■should be easily arranged, and mean tunc tliero should lie more cfw-opviu-tion between the Dominion Governments and their Agents-Gener.il in London and the Imperial Government. A. secondary suggestion certainly deserving of consideration is that tho Hig'; Commissioners siiould Le members »i the respective Cabinets which they reoresent in England. "Such a representative," Mr. Tilley argues, "would naturally have more authority on h iiii sides of the water than any retired colonial politician, however distinguished, who wishes for a pleasantly djgn:lied post to occupy his declining year«. Moreover, a High Commissioner wii-> was a member of the Dominion Cabinet which appointed him could vis't hir colleagues periodically to keep in touc-'i with th.em, and yet carry on his duties efficiently in London, e could remai.'i in elos3 touch with his own people, while speaking with authority rt*

member of his own Government

London."