Show CANADA AND IMPERIALISM When the British power was assailed In South Africa by Boer Intrigue and hostility the colonies realized at a glance the imnortance of the crisis An empire of 1500000 square miles with n future of indefinite expansion was at stake British prestige was at stake the diamond mines of Klmberley the fabulously fabu-lously rich gold mines of the Wltwaterg mild the great region north of the Transvaalwhich embraces unquestionably unquestion-ably the anchlent Ophlr of the days of Hiram and Solomon and the breezy salubrious uplands north and south of i I tho great river Zambezi 1 and adjacent to the inland seas of Nyassa and Tran ganlka with their vast posslbltles all these were the prizes for which the contestants con-testants entered the lists Instlnctand loyal Impulse led the colonies to range themselves almost Instantly on the side of the motherland with 3 determination that the great British empire in Africa should remain jntact and that British Influence and development In Africa should proceed unimpeded Imperial federation involving n federal union a central Parliament representation rep-resentation in that Parliament by the colonies and a central Jurisdiction exercised exer-cised by that Parliament over all the empire probably will never be realized I Is not essential to imperial unity that it should be Neither is It at all likely that Britain will Impose discriminating duties upon food products from various f countries In the Interests of Canada and I other foodproducing colonies unless as I i an accompaniment of an Imperial soil vereln and absolute free trade throughout through-out the empire There has grown up however a bond of sympathy and mutual mu-tual good will which amounts to an unwritten un-written law and which will secure every possible preference both In Eng land and the colonies each for the other In trade transact lops This spirit Is likely to continue and may lead in the near future to the consummation of that Imperial zollvcreln which now seems a dream of the advocates of a united empire Englands military power looms up I I before the world in vaster proportions than ever before Her basis of military I strength Is not only the forty millions of population of the British Isles but the large and rapidly I increasing population popu-lation of Canada Australia and New Zealand and India affords a recruiting ground among its warlike tribes for millions of men If necessary Lobe mustered into the British service The meaning to the world of this growth of the Imperialistic spirit Is not one of menace I proffers n benedic ion of good will and of hope for the future Great Britains course In the past has been one calculated to promote the best interests of humanity Such will be her course In the future and vast unreclaimed regions of the earth such as the dark unappropriated portions por-tions of Africa will yet fall under her sway The faster this destiny Is fulfilled ful-filled the better for the Inhabitants and for the Interests of humanity generally gen-erally Her colonial rule is 3 just and beneficent one She holds the scales of justice with even hand and sedu lously seeks to promote the interests of the people who come under her sway and to develop the resources and increase In-crease the wealth of the lands over which nor flag floats It Is needless to that the I say English speaking people of Great Britain and of all her colonies arc anxious to promote friendly relations with the United States and to act In concert with that I country which means that the earth shall bo civilized and reclaimed largely I through the Influence of the Anglo Saxon race A feeling of jealousy toward to-ward the United States does not exist In England No appeal to1 passion based upon popular prejudice against the American people can be made there for the simple reason that there is no such prejudice to appeal to Eng land will look with equanimity and with approval upon the extension of American territory and the Increase of American power hoping to be able to net In concert with the United States In the march of that dlstlny which God seems to have marked out as the path I of Englishspeaking peoples Jnihe twentieth century Hon John Charl ton M P in the August Forum |