BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81848, 18 September 1906, Page 3

BRITAIN AND THE COLONIES

LIBEBAU' CLAIM FOR CONFI-j DEN'CE. NO CHANGE OF AIM. Beceived 17,10.16 p.m. Lokdox, September 17. Mr Winston Churchill, iu his letter to Mr Greenwood, cabled on the seventh, admitted that the confidence shown by Canadian and Australian Statesmen in the only set of British politicians with whom they had long been accustomed to deal, had in a great measure been worthily repaid. Conservative predominence synchronized with, and generously aided the growth of the Imperial idea. There are now new men, with other principles and different methods, but with no change of central impulse and aspirations as to ultimate aim. Canada's and Australasia's progress and prosperity was largely ascribed to Liberal social principles, carried in some ways to far more logical extremes than in the Motherland. The Empire had nothing to fear from Liberalism, by whose Imperial principles of Colonial autonomy, lofty humanity and peaceful foreign policy, the structural cohesion of the Empire had alone been achieved and maintained.

[The Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr Winston Churchill, writing to Mr Greenwood, M P., who is travelling in Canada, asked him to try and convince Canadians that the Conservatives do not monopolise interest in Imperialism. The advent of the Liberals did not mean a weakening oi British affection for the colonies or a belief in the ultimate aim of a solid defensive league of free democratic communities animated by love, peaee, and justice under the leadership of the Crown.]