The Daily News. MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1902. THE COLONIALS AND GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 23 June 1902, Page 2

The Daily News. MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1902. THE COLONIALS AND GREAT BRITAIN.

A Colonist," apparently a Canadian, hss been contribu'iog to the London [ 'Jauy Ixpress a eorioa of ai Voles urder the_ title of " Liakage of- British wains, the objeoi of the wri'er being • to set forth the supericr capabilitUs of I ® coloaiala over the stay-at-home j Britisher, Tee following is an extrsct Erom one of bis articlesln the J Oo we tea things soooer than you I see them over here. There are two I great even's tbat are going to happen j within the next ten yairs, which will j affect the status of the British Empire, j One is that tbe United Stages, bnipping Trust, and by mains of (ht-ir Stite Department ara going to make a strong move in the direction of ( thrawiog down the Customs line between Uanad* and the Stit;s. In ■ other words, Canada is to ba driven inIto annexation with th* S'ates. Toe other point is th it the Commonwealth of Australia within the next ten years will make it perfectly cW tj France in the Pac.fic that she is not going to I have criminals dumped down in the neighbourho:d of the Australian nation, and will fight to prevent it; and, secondly, tbat New Guinea, with its newly dise.vered gold minop, i ■»hither on English or Garman territory, is going to be Australian, and not German. 'lhe hand of England is going to ba forced by tha coloniit. Australia has tasted blood. Carada's Paardeberg is not the lasi of the kind. It is time for England to wake up and recognisp, if not we'eome, the novelty that tha colonies are no looger dependent co!onie°, but nation', equal nations, containing people every bit as gocd and much stronger than the people over here. in the colonies everyone worth his salt can get his tucker. Threa square meals a day is the rule ; their absence the exception. I have teen reading a book written by an Englishman named Rowntree, in which he describes an expariarntal inquiry made at New York by which it seems that your working classes are not [properly fed, tbat they aie badly |hous:d, and their children do not get I enough fresh air or nourishing food, I and that at least one third of the population of England is subject to this [state ef things. If Mr Rowntree's figures and facts are accurate - and my itnglish friends tell me that they are considered to be accurate—then it is about time that the colonios came in and tcok a hand in raising the ph) sisal standard of you English."