The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916. RIGHT AND FREEDOM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 99, 28 July 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1916. RIGHT AND FREEDOM.

Referring especially to the recent Honour conferred on Mr W. M. Hughes and Sir Thomas Mackenzie by Bristol city, the Bristol Times, in the course of a leading article remarks that Australia and New Zealand, like Canada and every “new” country of great resources, set gieat store by material prosperity. But the war has proved that business enterprise, a high standard of workingclass comfort, and—in Australasia—a very “advanced” type of democratic politics, can all co-exist with forms or idealism and patriotism which arc almost spiritual in their intensity. The war, with all its horrors and infamies, has made real and evident these higher sentiments of unselfish love tor right and freedom. This is what Mr Hughes eloquently expressed when he

said that “there is now a surge sweeping through the mind of every Britisher that will make him—has made him—a hotter man than he was before.” The Bristol paper goes on to say:—“And what we can claim for .Britain and all her daughter nations we arc proud to grant also to Franco and the other Allies who are joining wkh us in the great conflict against the Germanic Powers and Ihe poisonmis doctrines of modern Pmssianism. Germany has carried 'her attempts at domination into every sphere—military, political, and commercial. The, ruthlessness of her soldiers has been I matched by the unscrupulousness of her manufacturers and merchants. Trade has been used as one of the weapons of war, and will he so used again by Germany. It is the business of Britain and her Allies to say that ‘never again’ shall we leave ourselves exposed to German aggression! in the way that the outbreak of war. found us iu 1911. ‘The laissez-faire policy will have to he abandoned,’ said; Sir Thomas. Mackenzie, and he was, expressing only the conviction thatj has forced itself almost universally! upon the trading communities of this country, including even such oldtime centres of Free Trade doctrine as Manchester and Glasgow. In some way the great problem of ‘marshalling, organising, and scientifically directing the resources of the F>m-| pire’ has to he re-studied and dealt 1 with afresh in the light of the war. and of die peace which has yet to conic. Sir Thomas Mackenzie made

the interesting suggestion of ‘a great exhibition or fair n some central position in the Motherland.’ Perhaps the prosaic details ol organisation, and of better application of science to industry and of intelligence 10 trade enterprise, to which he also referred, oiler a more promising field. Exhibitions. from ISM downwards, have sometimes raised higliei hopes than they fulfilled.”