• Mr. Borden made an important speech on Tuesday at
a dinner given in his honour at the House of Commons by the Empire Parliamentary Association. He spoke first of the constitutional development of the Dominions, which was pro- ceeding on lines parallel to those of the United King- dom, and enumerated the particular difficulties which had confronted Canada. Her task had been "to create the condi- tions of modern civilization throughout a territory twenty times the area of the British Islands, to inspire scattered com- munities with a national spirit, to overcome the prejudice of race and creed, to provide cheap, rapid, and efficient trans- portation for enormous production over tremendous distances, to develop wisely and providently great and varied national resources, to overcome great national obstacles to political unity." And this task, he submitted, had not been unworthily performed.
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