Excerpt from Imperial Preferential Trade: From a Canadian Point of View Mr. Chamberlain, with his unique capacity for burying himself in one idea at a time, has been chiefly instrument al in preaching the decline of British power and capacity. Nothing more strikingly demonstrates his well-known demagogic influence than his remarkable feat in bring ing so many British people from a condition of prosperous contentment to the very brink of ruin, within a twelve month. The very Empire itself is for him but as clay ...
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Excerpt from Imperial Preferential Trade: From a Canadian Point of View Mr. Chamberlain, with his unique capacity for burying himself in one idea at a time, has been chiefly instrument al in preaching the decline of British power and capacity. Nothing more strikingly demonstrates his well-known demagogic influence than his remarkable feat in bring ing so many British people from a condition of prosperous contentment to the very brink of ruin, within a twelve month. The very Empire itself is for him but as clay in the hands of the potter; for has he not assured us time and again, that by 'means of the Boer War he brought it to a condition of unparalleled unity and solidarity; and has he not, within a very short period, reduced it to such a parlous condition that nothing can save us from destruo tion but committing our destinies to his charge, by giving him a blank mandate to work out our salvation N ow we in Canada cannot dictate to the British people what com mercial policy they must adopt, for we in the past chose for ourselves, and insisted upon following the example of the United States, not that of Britain. We can have noth ing to say, therefore, even should the British people under the influence of Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, and their assistants, become convinced that their day of greatness and independence has suddenly passed, and that hence forth instead of following a policy of their own and lead ing the commercial world, as they have done so long, they must go back several centuries and learn once more to imitate the example and'copy the policy of other Europ ean nations. But, in the face of such possible changes, it behooves us in Canada to know where we stand, so that we shall not be blindly committed to a line of policy which may be inconsistent with our national interests and dignity, or threaten the maintenance of those higher relationships within the Empire, which must be inde pendent of fiscal changes in any part of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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