EMPIRE AND COLONIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81868, 18 October 1906, Page 4

EMPIRE AND COLONIES.

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE. MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S VIEWS. A cable message published in our issue of September 18th referred briefly to a letter which Mr Winston Churchill, Under-Secretary of State for .he Colonies, had written to Mr Hamar Greenwood, M.P., who was then traveling in Canada. Following is the full text of the letter, which its writer and its subject invests with a high interest to colonial?.— "My Dear Greenwoood,—l am very glad, indeed, that you are going to spend the autumn recess in Canada, la your double position as a Canadian blood and bone, and as the representative of a famous English city, you may find some opportunities of helping forward the measured but irresistible march of Imperial cosolidation. Your own gifts and your work a! the Colonial Office will enable you to turn these opportunities to good account.

"For the last twenty years the Conservative party in England has been inseparably associated with the symbols and apparatus of Imperial ad-mini-tratmn. The British Government has for so long implied 'the Ccnservative party' that the terms have become almost synonymous. Canadian and Australian statesmen have been accustomed to deal with one et of British politicians, and alike by their wise detachment from our party controversies and by their loyalty :o the Mother Country, they have come insen-iblv to regard a particularly political party as having an especial claim upon their confidence. In great measure, and certainly until the last few years, that confidence has been worthily repaid, and the long period of Conservative predominance has synchronised with and generously aided the growth of the Imperial idea. LIBERALS AND THE COLONIES.

"At the last general election a great change was wrought in the balance of British political parties and in' the disposition of political power The consequences of that change are likely to govern our affairs for a long time to come. Ido not now examine the advantages of the change, nor do I wish to minimise its importance. It involves a considerable alteration 'n political principles and in the points of view and modes of thought of public men and in the character of domestic legislation. What you must try to do, as far as may lay in your power, is to convince your and kinsfolk in Canada that this change in England, great and far-reaching though it has been, does not imjUy any weakening in the affection of the British people towards their kith and kin acros the sea, or in the earnest and vigilant efforts of the Colonial Office to render the colonies every le. gitimate service, military, diplomatic or commercial, that may be in their power. There are new men, there are other principles, there will be different methods; but in the guiding aspirations, in the central impulse, in the ultimate aim, namely, a solid defensive league of free democratic communities, animated by a love of peace and justice under the leadership of the British Crown—in that there is no change of any kind or sort what ever.

NO REASON FOR MISTRUST. "And what. I should like to know, has ihe British Empire to fear from Liberal principles? It it one of the oddest things in modern history thai there should be any question on this point. It is to Libera! social principle», carried in some ways to for more logical extremes than in this old country, that Canada and AusrraIh and New Zealand ascribe no little share in their progress and prosperity. It is upon Liberal principles of tolerance and trust in racial matters, of freedom and equality in religious mat ers, that they built their own 'nternal peace. It is by Liberal Imperial principles of colonial autonomy of a lofty humanity, and, above all. of a peaceful foreign policy, that the »!tuctural cohesion of the British Empire has alone ben achieved and will alone be maintained. •'I do not write this to you because I should .ike to see the self-governing "■ I ni's pin their faith particularly !■■■ tli'' Liberal party any more than to the Conservative party. The Brit--npip- must centre upon the Brit- ( r -,vn. But in so far as you " r. your friends in Canada re- ■' in the Liberal Ministry in tiiey will find true comrade? t- : hful.unrelaxing setvice whenT"' rave need of it, you will br d work in a good cause.' 1

PROVE ALL THINGS. SEW PLVV.TPEOPLE LOOK FOB P: PEOOF. To win a'i ••; "an English marquis on . Bndge and offered • - . - : :ive shillings. He could i : " t"! onifr. It is not to be - r ■ a;, tor .the public look '■ : -• at a 7"'" proposition where the j ev.-.tently a financial loser, ' ai-v direct or indirect gain. r- a . ; ,. ■ ~n t scliemers have often been • ■: aa:! in these days sceptics want better proof than the word of a granger. So evidence can be btronger thin the testimony of friends and neighbors—of people we know. Here is a case of it Miss Jordan, Junction road, near New Plymouth, says:—" For some years I was troubled with backache and giddy headaches. The pains in my back were very severe, and I could not stoop without suffering increased pains and the agony when I straighten again was even worse. Then giddiness would /•ome on suddenly, and I would nearly fall. Medicines seemed to do me no good, until I took Dnan'a Backache Kidney Pills. The relief this remedy has given me is splendid; it is really marvellous how completely all pains have been banished."

It is important that you get the genuine remedy—that which Miss Jordan recommends. Therefore ask for Doans Backache Kidney Pills, and see that the word " Backache " is in the name.

Doan's Backacne Kidney Pills are sold by all chemists and storekeepers at 3s per box (six boxes 16s fid), or will be posted on receipt of price by FostcrM :Ciellan Co., 70 Pitt-street, Sydney. But be sure thev sre DOAJiS'.