A FEDERAL BRITISH EMPIRE.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 168, 16 October 1880, Page 2

A FEDERAL BRITISH EMPIRE.

The pamphlet by Sir Daniel Cooper, Burt,, on “A Federal British Empire,” j to which vefereliee was made lust mail, I has nUractuil much notice, ami men who | have given attention £o this .subject are | beginning to think thst if Uie Empira; | were federated there wmild not, only be a gnaraot s* of its safety from attack, but. the knowledge that a great power haijt been generated “out iff a eongrogation of atoms/' si> to speak, would '■oatvilmto largely to tile peace of the World, and dir more llnin anything rise to bring: about that, general disarmament which : theorists are eo.istaivtly spo.-uiatiug upon. ; There can be no doubt that iirueli of the : power of (rival Britain and tier colonies . is lost for want of organization, win-thur ■ the question be regarded from a military, i naval, or mercantile aspect. The common ' practice of the past lias lieen to let details- ; lake care of themselves, and iu legislatin' simply for (ho moment ; but tine practiciv l has met with its own condenimilhn, since events have grown wit of proportion to the means taken to compass and to faster ' them. Tlicw an Kmjdve, lying oulshle of Great Britain .jtad constituted by her j has sinhleufy >.piiing into existi-m-.,-without any very material ai-1 from the mother eoirrrtrv,which any n.-ir inutility I:-, the world would be glad So sh.>k»* iiaiuls • :.«l 1 . -J— "«'b • vi.v br-Mi-ip irrllutfiifV' . ~i it* s Uig. 11 "‘•ly hv ol.jo.tiftl, thi-r»!- • foie, tluit it cruel to al!nw ihn , V ,,wer J-’i n»-»« lo Ini l’r;-t.em! awnr , iwr want of whi-Mmt hUciuj.-' to tldiMr !hi- cxmK- j.»r»mi ui which (O.ifsimi shouM counm‘U?v r H may • jmante I nut tliai., s*> fur, neither tliocolonies nor the mother country h:i vo* , given that attention to the subject which its undoubted importance! demands, bur, have let matters take their chance. Clearly then, Tie- vast magnitude of the interests which arc at slake should compel attention lathe question of a federated Empire, with tile view to fuse and harden the power which propcily hcimigs to us. As things are, we arc 100 disjointed, and. ; llm best thing that mil he done is to set ' about obtaining a fusion, S i far. a federated Empire las been regarded amoing some peop.e as a chimera a ui a dream of 1 the land of ITopia, but ) rae leal nn-n m « in the proposal a nouns of cement i.g an intensely creative power, and of making jit more productive and useful in nr,ion i than it would otherwise he. Before, i however, a federated Empire can he [ brought about the colonists must first ’set (he i sample by federating among ■ them-elvos. It needs not to say that ! tlio power and inllnene* of Canada is j duo to ludertithm, and that it is the tight j piineiplo to pursue if the strength of our t eoiceiii-K is to he utilised toils full extent. ■ With power emms inflnet.ee,ami with in- ! finance come wealth ami all those glorious j auxiliaries of civilization winch all great ] conn ries are protnl to cnltirato, It is | well kti iwit llwl tho United .States nbj sorb the bulk of the emigrants from this j country, and that those who-go there go I out at their own rest. Of course It may | he contended that people go there who ! would not go to our colonies, lint the , ipiestion whether they would change their mi.nls if they were fully per- | snarled that-'they would obtain proton- ' lion in times of war for any property . , which they might accumulate in the j colonies has never, perhaps, been re- ■ ganled as a factor in the choice- they i make.. They know that the power of tlio j United Stales is equal to protecting all I her citizens, hut all i In- people who end- ! grate to tin- Stnics do not know lire 1 conditions under which pi'opmtv i* m.tdn ' seenre in the eol-mie-. fj then t.rn i-e ho any grotiml for I ho liypotherip, ohvjen-dv a good reason is onggesUd why the colonic* ui-u not regarded with fiivonr by a latge 1 class of emigrants, and mother argument; i is found in favour of a feilnatcd Empire. I booking at iv ll -it is happening around u», this is a question when will not brook delay, and Sir I Mniel Ucoper In a. wio well to draw Utontinu to it, Anglo Australian in tin) European Mail,