Show I Welcome the Dominions I Ic c ENA statesmen who are the most exercised about those S CP five votes for the British dominions are arc also the same statesmen who talk the most about freedom for Ireland not Ireland not to mention India These same senators verge on Anglophobia when talking of the power and indirect influence of the British empire These same senators are most fond of harking back to the spirit of 76 and recalling our own struggle for independence Now isn't it a bit strange that they should profess to be so supremely jealous of our own sovereignty so extremely glad that we achieved independence of the British king and the p parliament to in tl London and at the same time should oppose autocracy and f practical independence for British dominions Representation of the dominions in the league assembly their separate signatures to the treaty of peace and its ratification by their parliaments parliaments' to all effects and purposes made them independent nations so far as their relations to the world are con concerned Their tie to the British empire r remains mains only one of sentiment with withA A vague quasi legal relation to the British crown which in practical effect mounts amounts to nothing but a ceremonial and social bond i Both colonials and understand this It was only ber berhard er hard fighting that the colonials led by Sir Robert Borden na iian premier succeeded in attaining this independent diplo- diplo tic status at Paris and in the league The recent debates in inthe th the Canadian parliament and the do documents and correspondence wade public there by Borden show that the old school tory imf im- im f U t in in the British foreign office and ot other er bunches branches b anches of of Downing Down Down- m ing s street opposed every step toward colonial colomal representation As s Americans as heirs of 76 is it not our proper part to I and assist our kinsmen in achieving by peaceful political r the government self and ancl independence that we ourselves had hado to o p right fight ht for But the senators seem seem to have been betrayed ye t into the inconsistency of supporting the tory try theory and forcing the dominions back into a position of dependence by denying denying denying deny deny- ing tb them m representation in the league and refusing to acknowledge them as as' political entities |