JOHN BULL AND CO.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 93, 26 April 1913, Page 4

JOHN BULL AND CO.

“I like the phrase ‘John Bull and Company,”’ said Mr G. B. Foster, Canadian Minister of Trade, speaking at Sydney last week. John Bull and Co. has not filled all the stages of its great warehouse, yet by any manner of means. (Applause.) It has not swept all its seas, it has not developed even a majority part of the vast business area which belongs to the operations of that company. (Cheers.) To those who are strong in faitli and hope, and want fields for adventure and enterprise, and have been filled with an ambition for great public work, great ministerial work, and great national work, I always contend that no empire of the past or the present presents such a field as the great British Empire in all its variety of climate, temperature, and production. With its illimitable possibilities and capabilities it is absolutely sufficient unto its own. wants. I want to say to you, my brother Australians, you are part and parcel with ourselves and the many other parts of the empire in working together for tire development of the whole. Wo will have differences of policy, differencs of opinion, and differences of ideals. We cultivate that diversity of belief. It is good for the empire. All that we need to bo sure of is that always outside and around and above all our policies and differences, we hold with firm determination, that it is written in the book of fate, in the decrees of the world, that we must stand together and be united.”