Lord Rosebery—whose reference to Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman has been
much commented on—further challenged the accuracy of Mr. Wise's statement that the sympathies of all the Colonies were with the Tory party, and invited him to carry out a plebiscite in his own . Colony or any considerable part of it, " in which the banner on the one side shall be the Liberal party, with freedom of trade and freedom of Empire, and on the other the Tory party, with Chinese labour." In conclusion, Lord Rosebery repeated his advice to the Liberal party to do more to win the confidence of the'outer Britains of the Empire than it had done in the past. There was no reason why the Liberal party in Great Britain should not represent Liberal communities throughout the Empire as well and as truly as it does the Liberal community at home.
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