The Daily News WEDNESDAY, MAY 13. NOT UNDERSTOOD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 121, 13 May 1908, Page 2

The Daily News WEDNESDAY, MAY 13. NOT UNDERSTOOD.

South Australia has produced another Million. A strung man gifted with dear perception and lorcelul expression na.s mine to the nont. That, in llii' Mothci- | | laud, chamber., of cuumcuc have .-,-

| ~ nd.lcd to listen to hi* views on trading I 1 .subjects, and tin- various public bodies 1 hive vied ill doing him honor is evidence mat however little iic may ''C known, gcncrallv. to tliu people of the Commonwealth and -New Zealand. -Mr. 'l'ln'mas i'rici! lias been frankly recognised as a

' natural leader of men l>y Uiose *>'"■-■' judgment in this respect has never erred and is entitled to ready aciepUtiuii. In England the l'reiuier of South Aus- | 1 Inilia lias not spoken for his own Stall 1 alone, lull for Australasia. The viens

I he has expressed have been wide ami comprehensive. For services rendered, fur population, eounneree, and tile great dc-Unv awaiting tlifin, .Mr. l'riee n-- | „ei'ts 'that these southern lands have I never received, anil do not now rci-ei-.v. the eousideraiiou to which they are enth led at tin- hand- of tin 1 people nf i'ne '

Muliierlaud, and he lias not failed I" point out tlie directions ill whieli the consideration should in tin' I'nluri! e\leiid ilSell. Mr- l'riee ha- said, and .-aid truly, thai, to the Liberal Parly <>l' England'llic colonial does nut owe anyilii'ng. Some fifty or more years ago a vvi'v learned professor, speaking at .Manchester, asserted that the colonies ~" were an encumbrance and a responsibility, "a burden upon the British laxpayBjj er." and should be got quit of as soon §§ as possible. This extravagant parable g! was unfortunately adopted by the Libra era I Tarty, and'through all'the year TC that have' passed the attitude of stolid Egj eold imlill'erenee attaching ,t|o it hiix H clung to them and is with them still. B Uailiea) in their democracy as they may H be, the colonists of Australasia yet reB cognise that whatever sympathy or help

ithey may have received from the Motherland has eonie from the hands of lite Tories, llr. Trice has not hesitated to tell Hie Liberals plainly how iui-(ikeii I heir want of policy has been, and what colonials think of them.

At the banquet given by the Colonial Institute in honor of Mr. Price there was much eloquent speaking. AH (he i>ld platitudes—"the ties of kinship,'' "the bonds of sympathy," "the spirit of Empire"—familiar to the colonial, ap]K'ar to have been given an airing lest they should grow over-musty. His lfnyit Highness tile Prince of Wales, indeed, went a trifle further when he spoke <>f "Imperial defence and the strengthening of military organisation in peace time," and "reciprocity in matters of education and the strengthening of social relations." This was a little deviation into the practical. Of course, whatever his personal views, it would not haw !i 1 pr(i|«'i- for his Uoyal Highness to have referred, even in"thc most incidental fashion, to any kind of reciprocity that might be held to savour of party polities, but the introduction of the won) "reciprocity"—any kind of reciprocity—constituted a marked feature "f his speech, and could not have been very agreeable to the Liberals. As tnr reciprocity in trading considerations, as for representation in the Councils of the Kmpire in, limit of anything of that sort could be expected 'with a Liberal Ministry in power. As Mr. Price lias pointedly observed, the people of the ".Motherland do not understand. If a man is Seventy-four years of age. then he lias lived a t a time before any one of (he colonies south of the Line—save Now South -Wales—was in existence, and before the close 0 f this year New Zealand alone will have one million inhabitants. The population has about doubled itself in twenty-five years In HMO, the population or Victoria was •oine sixty thousand; to-day there is half a million of people in Melbourne alone. The people in England do not understand. Not only Mr. Price, but nearly all the public men of the Comjuomvealth arc anticipating a great inllnx of population to set) in .shortly. Canada, in this respect, is absolutely bounding forward. I u a comparatively few years the population in the great sell-governing colonies will equal ,| l;l , of tlie .Motherland, and a few years '•'"•'' probably the question may „,'■ „„, what concession England will grant to '"-■r children, but what provision ],..,- ehildren -hall make for || l( . ~|,l | , n ,| ""• l"'"!' 1 '' <»' l-J'Bl«nd do not ~, • stand.

AM ,*,„• „„ top of th,. high-faluting table talk at the Hotel Oeil almost i,„. mediately tnnic tlie moral. .Mr. Price pointed out that from Seryia 'butter ™ul< l«. imported at a rate one shilling ','' >»»"ln-«Iw. B ht cheaper than butter , n0.,, Australia or \,., v ZoalaiKJ. X„t ' 01. ,'' -n ' S<,ntl '" ,ont that can be "I ok. 11 will compensate for that little I «iiir V ivnco. There is no sentiment, in Ws. The trader, a 8 ~e has ™ light to do-which not all the fustian -mfin,,,,,.. t.anean be manufactured ,e, ( " '!"" l!'° m ' M »S~huy» i„ the M' t ""'' S ° l,s in ''"-• 'learnt marI,' n '"" 1W " l,s law of """mieree tli<; products of the colonics, Mr [Ylll . i : o.«tea out, sutler. The fiscal rof„ ~ 1 undredweigl.t u„ the butter of he a km, so that the produce of the ehildr , '' t '.■ l'-'U|>Ue may reap the advantage. Th skill "' the free-traders, it'■ I ' , "«,'7'' eSt ' nt3 «'<•' «Hole issue; '"* t0 t>™ibJe Dn its fate.