Lord Rosebery and Lord Carnarvon made on Thursday speeches in
favour of Imperial Federation, from which it is clear that they really think that Imperial Federation between the United Kingdom and her Colonies can be made some- thing much more effective than a cordial affiance for certain purposes,—such as we heartily desire,—indeed, something much more resembling a Central Government determining on a policy which is to bind the British in both hemispheres for a. policy extending throughout both hemispheres, and to be supported by the purses of the British in both hemispheres. Well, that seems to us just about as possible as to restore the large family councils such as still exist for certain purposes in France, and give them the power of determining what friends and what enemies every branch of the family shall have, and of dividing a common fund between the separate branches of the family for the purpose of cementing these friendships and prosecuting these enmities. Would any race in its senses dream of proposing such an institution ?
Previous page
