TRUE IMPERIALISM

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10479, 16 November 1911, Page 5

TRUE IMPERIALISM

UNITING THE EMPIRE. : (Received Last Nighit, 11 o'clock.) LONDON, Nbvember 15. Dr Plarker, organising representative of the Rhodes Scholarship Trust, addressed the Rtoyal Colonial Institute on True Imperialism. He ■said the-fundamentals of t/rue Im/per_ ialisim affected the union of various scattered coiwrnunitiesi, and the free development of each community, whale providing for united action in matters of common interest, sharing the d'efence burden, and some method of giving contributory units Biime proportionate voice in the Council pf the nation. Liord Rbberts, wtlno presided, in 'Proposing a wote of thlanks, lamented (the insufficiency of knowledge of the far off countries with which. Britain ihiad to dieal. The Him. A. Fisher, Australian Prime Minister, had told Mm. that before he attempted to take an inteireist m public polities, he traveflilied twice round the. world. Lord Roberts/ tluoughit it .was a good example for all our Ministers' to adlout, as it wjould prevent the mistakes now made. Tna foreign p'osses sions, in order to prevent the Empire from falling asunder and per. ksifoing, roust be defended on the ba■siis of equal responsibility. There was, he said, no other course.