SOUTHERN LANDS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 13, 15 May 1915, Page 4

SOUTHERN LANDS.

Mr Edward Pulsford, the wellknown Sydney ex-M.L.C, has just issued a new paper entitled "Southern Lands,"' with the object of educating public opinion so that' gradually the tariff policv of Australia. New Zealand and South'Africa may be brought into lino with "British principles of freedom of commerce," so that the Empire mav be supported and strengthened. Mr Pulsford recalls the fact that at the time of the Imperial Con- | ferencc of 1907, he published a pamphlet, entitled "Empire Commerce," in the last paragraph of which he express-j ed the opinion that "The future of the world-wide British Empire rests moro ] on justice and generosity than on war-' ships and bayonets." In connection with the 1911 Imperial Conference, lie published a pamphlet, entitled "The Foreigner and the Commerce of the British Empire," and concluded thiS | with the hope that the self-governing Dominions would "do something to help the .Motherland to lay for ever, that ghastly destroyer of the world's | of. peaceful commerce." He had been deeply impressed with the paucity of population in the self-governing Dominions, and the' fact of sixteen million people holding and governing territories equal to' ( two Europes, and yet thinking it wise to limit the trading of the outside world. To-day. Mr Pulsford says, the Avar is working great changes; thesej Dominions are becoming active instead of passive partners in the greatest-' world-Empire that ever existed, if they, were not born with the right to parti-; cipate in Empire government, they have now most surely earned it by Empire work. They may certainly be relied on to review the tendencies of their legislation, as it affects the world position.