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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 122, 21 June 1909, Page 2

Till' COUIXIKK ,\x|j SK4 I !h' Fortnightly Review, the ablest of ■!» .Hi' 1 magazines in if„ criticism of Imi ciji ii aflairs, till-: a very powerful article 1,1 a m .cnt i ssll( . (m (]RI riv . l | rv tor nea-power unionist, tin- nations, anil tile tremendous issues nt stake. It says: "We need not count tin- colonial Oreacboughls before they are hatched, "nl |t is plain that the Sea League of I'll the Jintons is essential to Imperial unity If (his movement develops, as we think it. must, tilings may bo done winch would lie impossible to the ishind standing alone. The eleven millions Ml the white inhahitants of Greater Kritiii,, are richer, head for head, thitn ' People Hi the Mother Country. If they imposed upon themselves-ami notlnnir like so much i>' anticipated or ex--1 pected as yet-a proportionate share of Hie naval expenses of the Umpire, wo should in a few years have a couple uf squadrons of Dreadnoughts. J.'or C'-ui-nda could provide four; tile Commonwealth n-id Xew Zealand and South All lea together another four. These with perhaps a si[iindron added liy the •Mother Country. might he a speciill Tni"'liieli would lake upon I sell many expensive duties.' now discharged I,y the home liavv. and would save the island to face with concentrated strength the iiro,o!em of the North Sea. To make the colonial Dreadnoughts the core of ail oceaa licet Yi-iting eileli of tile States of the Knipire in turn, miglit solve the question of distribution-. Wo are realising what is tlin swat alternative for our dominion. rriiat alternative is union or death The whole power of the Herman Umpire" its industrial vigor, its 1 niilitimstrenglh. the fleet that will menace n'» i' l the future, is deprived from the achievement of unity. The Kaiser's subjects are over 112,00!),000; there are nearly 00.000.,000 of people in the United states. With our population of n'earlv 45.n00.()0n, scarcely larger than, that of I I i-i'ii-e. and but moderately iucreaslii'*. how as an island (.landing alone can we hope to hold onr own? Minds arc dull to the urea-ting of figures, but those we have given are of tremendous warning. Tf it is true that ivc must henceforth think in Dreadnoughts, it is Squally true that we must thi-nk in decades. We must get ready for the conditions which will confront its' before tire first quarter of the century i§ out, Tlien German# ; jUjjiitSi.'Mfgjek&bil.di.ti.T. •& ■> <