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` (Berman delivered by Rev I-I. Scott- Slnith, St. Peter's Cathedral, Ch,,,,»_ joitetown, Sunday, March 19th, 1911.; wmgrarihically reported by E, (‘._
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St. M-atthew, 26; 41: Watch mill pi-ay, that ye enter not into tempts- gjoii; the spirit indeed is. willing but me flesh is weak.
God, in his love for man, and in order that man may run with ont.- jgncii the race _that is set before him, ,nd that he may in the end be n wnlpieror through Christ Jesus, luis prdviiied him with all the helps that he needs for that race. When we spsak of the providence of God, or liear other prople discussing God'n providence, how often do we speak of that providence as thong-h it only had to do with material things-with the things of this life. We say in re- gard to Gorl‘s good providence that 1-le gives us our daily bread; our lilaltb; our strength; that hc gives his angels charge over us to keep us in all our ways; but we are apt to dwell too much on that Part of it, and forget that God in 'his provi- dence confers upon us those spiritual blessings which are too often thought lightly of.
A mnii who is not very strong in the faith hears of some accidint~ iionicouc is sud-llenly called i\wny- and he is inclined to say he doubts glie providence of God. Or if man feels that hc is somewhat destitute of gifts, he may call the provhlenre of God into qiiestion. Yel;_ if wr only could believe thut thc things which are seen are only tem- poral, but the things which are not secn ure eternal! Here below in this world, after all, is lint the shadow, and above is the siibstance; so thc spiritual part of man must, alter all, bc of very much greater iinprirtiincethan the bodily part. 'ln our general thanksgiving, when we thunk God for all the blessings of this life, we add: But above all for 'l‘liinc lnestimable love in the re- demption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ. Our _(blessed Lord through all his te-ach'i'n‘g has urged men to set their affections on things above, where I-Ie Himself dwells at the right hand of God. Of course man, must to a certain extent, take care of the things of this life--man must bc provident; man must bc a worker; but let him not think that there is the end-that there is iiotb- ing beyond. Christ .teaches a.ltogc‘.b=r so differently. Many persons who set such value upon the things of this life mill are so 'keen about what they hair to do here below, are often sur- nriried with those who can give ihcif enum me and interests to the gospel of Christ. lf we only reall'/.e it, thnsc who are willing to count all things as lost in order that tliey inn.,- win Christ, are inevery way for in mlvaiice of us. God has then given us every help that we need for the race that is .wt before us. “My God shall supply all your nced, according tu the rich:‘_>i of his mercy in Christ Jesus." So that if msn fails; if at the en-d he is not ii winucr, it is his own` fault, and he cannot in nny way blame God for it. There are many in the world who cast_the blame for failure upon thc lord. This is a. most wicked and lilasphcmous thing to do. Home-say! "I am as God made merit is not my fault that I sin; it is my human na- tllre, for which I 'am in noway res- Dcnsible." God is the author of all goodness; He is not the author of evil. We can never reproach God with UUI” Own failings, as many are inclin- ed to do. If we will accept the lines which God Almighty lays 'down for ilu, then wc are safe; if we will take advantage of the helps that he so freely offers us, then we may be quita sure that we shall conquer 'in the strife. But you kfnow, my friends, we are too often rather inclined to go our own way about spiritual things. 'flltrc are those who say: I worshlv G06 in my own way. There are Dro- I°9Si¥\s Christians who -tell us they I-Illllk the sacraments are unnecessary, although our ‘blessed Lord ‘Jesus Christ has emphatically laid down: ‘Wert ye are horn of'tbe water and llle Holy 'SDlrit. ye Cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; and again, with regard to the Holy Eucharist, He has said: Except ye eat..the flesh OI the Bon of Man and drink His m00=I. ye have no life in you.YeI- llicre are those who, in spite of this, “Y that they will W-orship God in their own way. and then are surpris- ed if they fail. NUW, we are thinking tonight ol Yllvwnibiect of watclifulness-one ol *IN qualifications necessary for Lille Blliritual race., Our Ldrd has sal-d t-liilt it is ‘absolutely necessary for all 0! us to watch; and of course with wntchfulness, prayer-the two l‘I“.'ll¢9 must go together. Watch and WHY; Our Lord teaches this in the Plrnble. of the foolish virgins. It would not* have been sufficient for the WW Virgina simply to have waited; PI'i‘i‘\i' to have watcbedfor the com- "lk Il\‘Il\1groom;`but they had to re- I’i¢_l\Il~\h'their lamps from time to "me to keep them burning. The oil that you and I need to use is pray- °l‘.Watch and pray-Our Lord 'over _'jill over again insists upon lhls= what I say unto you I say unto all “ watch." He tells us in another erm that if the householder _had _ UWB what time the thi-ef was com- __"K he would never have suffered his _‘mc to be broken into. If we exam- "¢ ourselves. from time to time to "Dil out why we have failed to resist wp”-tion. we win and it is simply
Gauss Satan has takon ua in an “’ll“l\'ded nioment., when indeed we 2,” assured ourselves that for the _\_>9_l_n_|z_ we were safe, and there
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The Imperial Conferciice of`1ti11 ig
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BY (I. 1"Rl<]DERI(,lK II/iMlI.'1‘iJN_ during thc intorvciiiiig period there _
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PROGRAM TO BE DISCUSSED AT THE COMING
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE WHICH OPENS MAY 22
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Hamilton, 'in un Excellent Article, Treats on the Coming Conference.
I>USSi\»Iy will lic coinpuraitivcly little to discuss. Even ao, thc list remains rcmurkubly long :ind the time re- markably short. _ SIIFCIY this is n very big program.
body luis snid in cflcct, “\'ci-i, these deeply i|ii;p~_ f_»| ' U j qliestioxis are vcry inipiirf.iilit"; unillese Alliiiricletm H'l‘Iixc liFi€liiIi=‘](;oI]l:})uiii' that then they linvc Iii-_eu slielved for tho For East l lluve seen it staytgd I “wk U' t’"‘°~ _ _ _ hes been shnnea by the nnnennnii-é' Thus our position is two-fold:-(l) cotton interest und the vote; behind We realize thnt there is :ui impres- it. 'l‘o protect the Lsncnshii-Q cottonl SiV¢l IMIZG llllullwr Of illlllurfullt market iii Northern Chinn ii ainsf:
(Statesman of the Empire Will Assemble und Debate on nn Extraordinary Number of _Unsolved Problems of lntercoloniul ln-I
terest-immense List of Subjects for Discussion-A Few of the More Important Topics-C. Frederick
SOMETHING ABOUT THE PERSONELL OF THE CONFERENCE
Purliunient u.nd to u. Liritisli admin- istrative department he swept away. 'l‘he way to do this ia to break up the Colonial Office; to leave il to control the Crown Coloiiiczs :ind Uc- pendencies, und to bovc a new Cab- inet Minister-u f~lecretnry of State
lilly, the 22nd oi llduy, und its pro~ Almost cvcry item on it is u big, in-
ceedings are to clos ri _ the 22nd of June. Wif?hil|)iytIi1i1ltuIi£f:iIilfIIl it is Il0Iled to obtain 15 working UHYSI 15 lluys on which the assem- bled stutcsmen oi' thc ldmpire will hold debate. Fifteen 'iuysz thc timeI docs not sccm excessive for discus- sion of thc common uffuirs of it very great liinipirc which presents nn ex- trilordinury number of unsolved proli- IOYUSZ our own llomiuioii l"airli:imcnt often requires over one l\iind|‘cd uc- tunl working dnys to get tlirougli
one of its sessions.
First of nil.-What is the program
to be discussed by the lmpcriul (‘ori- ferencc in these fifteen days? lt luis been unnounced.°
The Imperial (iovernmcnt, und
those of Australia, New '/iculunil :ind South Africu have submitted lists of tlllllcsi the (lnunilizui (iovcrnmcnt bits suggested nonc, beyond a discussion oi uniformity of Nziturzilixntion Laws throughout the Kiniz’s l)ominions_ The total iisf. of subjects is very lurgc; in the tublc which follows, l' huvc endeavored to clussify them, nnd to indicate the couu`trics making the suggestions. 'l`he list is illibrcvi- ated, one title occnsioiially covering ii vnriety of proposuls:-
1.-Subjects rclntini; to the Consti-
tution of the Empire, or of the lm- pcrial (lonfereucc:-
1.-Representation of nn Imperial
Council of Sltatc of flic Ovcrscn Do- minions. (New Zcnlnnd).
2.-Reconstitution of the (loloninl
Office, including change of title from “Colonial Secretory" to "Imperial ficcrctnry." (New Yicnlunil, South Africa).
3.-Imperiul Court of Appenl. (Now Zealand, Alistrnliol,
4.--Publicity of Confercncc Nicot-
ings. (New Zealand).
II.-Sllbjects rciiiting to lieuurzil
Imperinl Poiicy:-- ~
1.-Naval :uid lllilitury l’olicy_
(Austrziliu, South Africu).
2.-(lo~opcr:ition in (`ommc.rcinl llc-
lations. (Austrulin, South Africnl.
3.-Ueclnrutiou of lioudon. (Austra-
lin).
III.-Subjects relating to lmprriul
Administr|ition:-
.l.-The All4_led Route, (Ne\\'fouud-
land, New Zealand).
2. - 'l‘clegr1\phic Communicutious.
(New 7.euland_ Australia).
3.--Navigation lnws, regulations,
ctc. (New ilealuiid, .-\ustralin).
4.-l’oi-ltnl matters. (lluited King-
dom, Australia).
5.-Emigration, Labor ldxcliiiiige,
etc. (United Kingdom, Austruliul.
6.-Position of British Indians in
the Dominions. (United Kingdom).
7.-lieciprocity as to destitute per-
sons. (New Zealand).
B.-Income tax, stomp, duty, ctc.,
affecting (loloninl Securities. (New Zealand, South Africa).
9.-Interchungc of (‘ivil Scr_viinf.s_
(New Zenlnml). _ ' IV.-Subjects relating to Inipcrinl Legisli\tiou;-
1.-The law of conspiracy. (Austra-
lia). '
2.-Uniformity of lnws in Copy-
right, Patents, Trude ll/lurks, flom- pmiies, Accident Coinpcnsation, Nu- turalizntion, Exclusion rind ldxpulsion of Aliens, Currency. Coinnge nml lylgosiii-og, (United Kingdom, (inun- da, Austrulia, New Zealand, i-luuth Africa). _
Condensed und abbreviated ns this
list is, the render will sec that it cm- braces eighteen sub-headings, one of which, the lust on the li_st_, bus eight or ten further sub-divisions; while some of the others open lnrge ncldr of discussion. Thus the subject which I have summarized as "'I`0l€lZl`llPI\I0 (lommunico.tions," includes the _es- tablishment of ri chain of Brit!!-‘Il State-owned wireless cables; thc chenpening of cnble rates; the erec- tion of ri state-owned lnud lll\€ across Cunndn; and the acquisition of a Stnte-owned _cnble across the Atlantic. The All-sled Route propos- al includes a diversity of PFOPOBHIH. fast stenmship lines on thc Pacific and the Atlantic und the establish- ment of ports of call ut Newfound- land, Fiji, and sundry other points. S ' of these subjects ure of ntech~
omc
nlcal nature, nnil the Imperial Gov-
i ines-
ni-nmont has proposed that tie l tions of uniformity of luws..0I recé' procity in lcglflllltlvni Of the Hen; ment of undesirable aliens. BMI °
tl uniformity be handled bi'
£39553; oi committees, or subsidiary
conferences. _
There will he left n list of about
fifteen subjects to be dcnlt with by the full conference in fifteen working days, or lass. It is probable that two subjects which took_ up nuwll time in 15107, will be dismissed ruth- er briefly in 1911. The siuiiect of inter-imperial trndc preferences -may be left somewhat in nh¢yI\l\¢B. ui D0' litlcal conditions in the United KlnK“' doin have not changed in that rc- spect since the great debntc of 1907. Imperial Defence, on the other Imnd. is n subject on which therclms been effected n considerable advance; it will take several yenrs to work out
terestlng, constructive subject, the working out of which would demaml| plenty of time, very good brnins, and nliundiint experience of politics and udniiuistrntion. Moreover, few will ilcuy that the solution of practically cvery subject mentioned would be n. grcut mlvn|it:i_i:c. After ull, wc wliitc nicn of thc. liritish ldmpire have ii lot of comniou i|ii.crcsls! Our flunndinii Aliiiistcrs (Iii not sccni tn Iluvc troubled much over it, but the other Ministries of the Five l¢‘rce Nations limi little difficulty in thinking of n x'c|iuu‘li1lily interesting set of prob- lems for the stntesmen of the Empire to consider in common. _
The next reflection is that not one
bnlf, not one qimrtcr, of this ngeudn list will be bundled by thc Confer- ence. A few subjects will be debuted
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with some fullness, u fcw more will be glanced nt, nnd the rest will bc dismissed with regret bccnusc time is lacking for their cnusiilcrntion. It is what has happened before. It is what must happen when there are onlv fifteen working days for twenty or thirty subjects. It is entirely pos- sible that thc subjects relegated to n further four years of oblivion will be those whose solution would be of the most practical benefit. For example, in Canada, we are greatly interested in iiffmigration, and the United King- dom is interested in the cognate problem of its eniigraticn; if n big und comprehensive plnn of handling Imperial migration could be drown up, so as to link in with unemploy- ment prulilems in Grent. Britain, it would bc of immense benefit. But it will_not be done; there will be insuf- ficient time. l-lithcrto the regular course of events nt Imperial Confer- ence has been that migration, mail, communications, telcgruphic nffnirs,
sntion shi ping problems,
the scheme drnwn up in the subsidi- ary Defence Conference of 1909; und
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problems wliosc discussion and solu- t\o_n would lie beneficial. (2) Our ex- isting syiitem makes it impossible to
discuss und solve them. It is
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case of so ncnr ami yet so fur; for it
is lack of time that prevents thci discussion li a sin ulzirly well-rjuali
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1I“5Fli\l\ Ilflgression, (lrent lirituin Ilelilcd Japan ngiiinst lilussia. Aus- tralia and New 'Aeulnnd do not like the r_esult. llritish (lolumbiu does u_ot like the result. lint the 'liritisli
r l<ore.ign Oflicc could find out in nd- - ynnce wbut _liniicnshire wanted, und
had no purticulnr means nr induce-
ly clilivcncll, und properly seized oflmcnt to limi out what Austrnlin,
these problems.
I venture to drriw the :ittrntioii of
my countrymen to ii set of propoiinl which has been devised to inset tbi
difficulty. They nrc thc work of Mr. li. S. Amery, ri well-known ldnglish publicist, :ind ure to be found in full in the mngiizine entitled iluited Fim-
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It is ii curious inet which will li
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HON. SIR WILFRID LAURIER, Who will represent flzinada nf. the
fmpcrinl (lonferenrc. _
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the lniperinl (‘oiifercucc_
New '/‘_`cnl:uid or l".'inndn thought or desired. 'There is the further reflec-
i-i tion tlint Iiiincasliire coiitriliutes fif- s teen million dollurs or more every
your to the nriny null navy which had to support the policy of the po,-_ eign Office, while Australia, New Aca- land and (lanado contribute very lit- tl_e to the nrined strength of the Em-
B Ipire; but I pass that by, for the For- . cign (mice has been generous in sup- I. porting the Oversea Dominions-
nm. BALFOUR,
l.ender of the Opposition in the lnipcrinl Piirllament.
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_for Imperial Affuirs. Tliis proposal _fins been much cniivni~=i=cii of lute, and _is p\1t forward by New Zenlund and South Africa for considcratioii by the npproncliiug (‘\oiif<-rei\ce__ flue pro- posal is that thc Imperial :-lecreiary should also bc the Prime Minister.
3.~When the lmpcrinl illixiference
assembles, the Foreigii Secretary should go lu-fore it und lay before its members ii coiiiplr-i_c--aiiil of course, voiifiilcntilil-i'cvicw. of the whole course und meaning of British foreign policy since. the lust (lonference, To revert to what I have written about the Anglo-Japanese Alliance; if thc scheme herein set forth lind been in operation, let us any in 1002, the Foreign Secretary in the course of his stntemcnt would have mentioned thc fact that thc project was being tentatively considered; and then the Ministers from ilzinaxlu. Australia and New T.enlnnd could liuvu explain- ed' their points of view. To mention another subject, wc bear a great; dcnl about the Anglo-German rivalry, and extremely contradictory things :irc `said about it. At the lmperiail (lon- ference of 1911 surely the Stntcsinen of the Dominions should sit down with tyled doors to talk this great subject over with the British Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Secretary of State for War, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the expert nf- ficials of the Foreign Office, and the sailors and soldiers who are charged with the responsibilities of Imperial Strategy. Then in presenting their policies in their own Dominions then' would know what was going on else- where; und under the surface. `4_-The Imperial Conference should meet more frequently and hold Ionit- er sittings. Suppose it were to meet
Y for several weeks.
5.-Of course the Prime Ministers of
the Dominions could not assemble in London so frequently. Once in four ycnrs probably is as much as ` they can manage. But in Canada and in Australia there are Cabinet Ministers especially charged with Intcr-Iinper- ial relations; in Canada, the title is Secretary of State for External Af- fairs. Let all the llominions have
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All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely
players. .
-.\s You Lille It, Act II., Be. 1,
Blmllespenra in his use of figures of
"Deer-li draws on' ancient mythology, on the history of Greece and Rome, and on the legends and lore of Agia, and medieval Europe. His- pages are crowded with metaphors culled from nature, his dramas abound in figures ff'-fL'fl'iY\k I0 Sports.-to the hunt, to faivonry, to bowling, and in fonnig_ There is nothing that he more ire- quently uses to illustrate :ii ties or situation than his :~.~.i -,ii _ --;~.n.r.. To lntorio #li -|._-<-» .~: il ;,_,-;-.-pm_r the world wus: "~“» Hifliiv. where e\ei-y inan must.
lllay his part."
To Mn:-beth, the tyrant who was
beginning to let-i the unrelenting hand of Nemesis, life was:
“A poor player, 'l‘liai_ struts and frets his hour upon
the stage,
And then is heard no more."
fforiolonus, who _under the in-
ilui-in-ns of love was weakening in his rt-solve to hold vengeance dearer than country, mother, wife or child, com- oart-il himself to a dull actor who hull forgot his part.
'l‘lu= figure of the world as a stage
and its inhabitants as actors in th, rlrnnm of existence is a powerful one. From childhood to old` age, forcibly or weakly all play their parts. Whm the curtain drops whether there be applause or hisses depends on how n man ‘han acquitted himself. The world is a vast stage, kings and peasants, poets nnd historians, art- ists nml artisans, manufacturers and nppreiitices, sailors and farmers, have all their parts. The background is thc vast heavens, the stage ig ocenu, plain and liill_
The profession of an actor is an
i-xactiug one. 'l‘o be a finished actor, to_p|ay the pnrt allotted well ra- quires years of experience and study. On the stage youthful associations count for much, but close study counts for more. A lad brought up in the company of actors has a bet- ter chance of succeeding than one who has entered the profession lata in lifc. For success the exits and O!- trances must be known, the cuss inust he familiar, the characters must. be stiulicd und practiced until a mln (forgets _himself and does not merely pl'»iy_ but is It Hamlet, a, Lear, or g, .Ma rhcl Ii.
Ho is it with liic. How a man
[plays his part depends much upon his
once a ear, and remain in sessioii'¢m-jp fmvjronmom; hut mom upon
study. The merchant who studies his markets ami the tastes of his cus- tomers is the one who will succeed in hiisiness. The poet who studies diligently and with reveranch Homer and Virgil, Goethe and Schiller, Slmkesprare and Milton, is the most likely to produce song that will at- trnct and stimulate. The architect who is familiar with the works of such immortal geniuses as Michel
such Ministers; lst these Ministers
` "» '_ .serve in the Imperial (`_-onfcrences_ss| _; ..`_< -_ 1. "-. U mouth iece of their respectwel
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the p Premiers. Thus we, in Uunnda, could have a (lnbinet Minister spcciallyi charged with Imperial Affairs; hc. could attend fairly long annual (.‘ou-'
in them from the Council Cliniiibei' in Ottawa, he would return from
me Council Chamber;
an Council table would be in touch with the other Kingdoms and Do- |minions and Dominiuns of the .Ein- pire~ and when tho (.lanadia_n repre-
be as a responsible Minister, com manding i1 Parliamentary maiority and directly charged with the duty of transmuting resolutions at Lon- don into action nt Ottawa. _
6.-Finally, there is a suggestion
ization. Mr. Amery <rcw o H to the fact that while the Ministers in a Dominion l-‘arliamexit inigiit un
them to the an » - _ I
the men who sit around the Canadi~_a___,_ ti___c_
Angelo null Sir Christopher Wren stands a good chance of giving beauty and strength to his creations. The politician who has made him- self acquainted with history, ancient and modern, with the laws and cus- toms of his own sndother countries,
ferences in London; hc would repairiwm, the lives and works of great
stntesmen who have changed 'the complexion of society, will probably make his influence felt on his nation
The actor, too, in order to play
'his part wcll must practice it con- ,stnntly_ Irving's Bhylock, Bo0t.h's (Hamlet, Salvini's Othello, Forrest’s
Terry‘s Portia were not the products of the study of a few r.ir~ri¢l»s. A _lifetime of application ai- i~»~_irinuous ipractise is necessary fi r i~~-s'-.-#flop in ‘the n~_tor’= nrt. iii 'N -f flu- " fl i- -i !i.i “ '-4 .ii_':<vi"~'
senthtive spoke in I‘°nd°" xt' w0“k¥`Leur, Mrs, Sid-don’s Ophelia, Helen
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which already is in pi_ocess €J__i____i_;._i_i;1-_t__‘;___ __a___S_ ____ _ ___ ____,_ ___ me
,thcre ure dull actors who ncver real _‘ly know their parts. Failure in busi-
ness and priifcssionul life can gener-
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ing to deul with fcllou-members vib
‘M Pr' e Mimstcr
nnturnil , ll - etc., have liccii rnised; tbnt every-
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l"_ildfllIEIl JOSEPH FISHEII, _
Who will represent Austrnliu at the HON. JOSEPH Cl-IAMBERLAIN,
Iinperinl Conference. Englmid's Greatest Imperialist.
tliiitlthesc' Imperial topics on tbewhen it knew that they were inter-
wholc are subjects of udministrntion cated.
rniiier unin 1enieiniinn_ unifnrni leg-I Here then are the prospects for the
‘ i ti n of the Imperlnl
islntion might be advisable in somc_future organ zo o
cases, but it is not essential. Uni-|Conference:- form principles of iidmlnistrntion are l.-The formal Presidency of the highly necessary in mnny cases; one‘Conference should be vested, not in instance which occurs at once to the _thc Prime Minister of the United mind is the exclusion and expulsion Kingdom, nor in any Prime Minist- of undesirable aliens; another matter er, but in His Majesty the King. Let which requires to be set on n proper ,King George V open the Conference footing is the treatment of British ‘of 1911 in person. Remember, this Indians in our Domfnions. But above IEmpire of ours will not get along on nll. uniform principles of policy are'a basis of thc subordination of the important; - _ Dominions to the United Kingdom,
One of our standing difficulties \{i its Parliaments, or its Cabinet Min-
C d is the fact that British Co - laters. We must hnve equality of etn-
nna n umbia has views on the exclusion of tus. The renl link nt present is the
- ' - ‘_ M ' h. ‘inch an uct
Asiatics, nnd tlmt these views con (ommon onnic I flict or are supposed to conflict, would bc the outward nnd visible
gestion was tbnt the ini _ _ _ nttendiug the full In1ll_9FUiI (<’"f'_3" ~euci-_ should be accoinllflllled by ll ‘le °‘ ization of M.l’.'s, chosen on some pro- portionate principle so ns to li_n\_Ie1:_ll political parties represented. T 9
il t " he observed "would Dm'
di. ego es, I _ sumnbly not take pnrt in _the discus- - - ' :h rc dis-
sion of thc Ciinieiciice, uliix ii cussions between executive iiovern- .I ments. But they would meet togeth- er, with ii. similar delegation from the United Kingdom Pnrlianient, to discuss the resolutions arrived nt by
(‘ ference which would f.|\en be
the lon _ . _ _ _ submitted to them for then nDll\'0VH -
l und
This proposnl luis been sdopti-i, the (‘oronution cercnionics will H00 11 remnrkable gutbcrinfl Of “flush leg' islntors from the four qunrti-rs of the globe l‘miudu will semi eighteen _lu ull. The mere fnct of P rcur_h-Ci»\nni_i- nn M. l‘_'s talking with Boer f\i_l’._s. of Labor Members from Austr:_\l|a comparing notes with Radical (_ on- servntives from (lnnruln, of_Euf:llB\\ Radical M P.'s sitting beside New
M,P.'s, will cause n rnrc absorbing
fl ioinfs of vicw of other por-
( _ _ I:‘iona\eoI our iZN‘f\'i-. Uhr ‘\lV0ff‘lf‘e“-
teresting Empire.
iul Conference. hns in front of it \
ndmirnble, is profitalile, but is to extensive for it under present riuuli
with blgb Imperial policy. The high sign of the newer order of things Imperial policy grew up without the Of course, the King could depute th
much about the point of view-which deserves to bc er person of suitable rank and stand
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Stntesmen of Grent liritnln knowing task of presiding over working ses-
Dritisli Columbia sions of the Conference to some oth-
I return to my origiunl sllhif’-€f~
Th_ li t f b‘e ts 'hi »‘= the lniper- _
0 B 0 an I C “ L ' "sion cyc to the actions of the other
olci incl;-rs in the drama.
derstand the Imperial situation, they a__' _
_ _ y be traced to ignorance or ne-
Imght' he sem-“my hnnfpered by hfw glcct The actor who mis-conceives
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thc character- he is representing or
i l no such iiiforination. I~l_is_ s\igé!___________S _____ _________ ___ greeted with boots
‘and liisses. In life the plaver who Ifriils on his Duff- EBU* the 15\\Khf»°l' lan-il sncers of the crowd. The world has hut little sympathy for failures. `Succcss is the measure of a man’a 'gi-eatness, and success can he achiev- ed only by watchfulncss, _study and practice.
Another point of similarity betwbcn
thc stage and life is that actors or mon do not stand alone. There is a wlicilo world of feeling represented in the drnnia "As You Like It" from which thi- words “all the world's a stage" are taken. There are bitfm' 'enemies and loving friends. inhabit* anis of the court and dwellers in the ,wild wood. lioye and hate, charity ,and greed, pity and cruelty are All lrnprcsciiti-il in it.. A number of actorl lan- roquired to adiiquntelv bring out the situations. No actor stands alone on the staire of the world. In thc great drama of life than are many players. The drama to be auc- ccssful must bc played according to
'Zealand semi-Socinlistic lml>“fl*‘I_IEf the rules, and the actors who attain
Iproininence are those who adhere to the laws of the world, their stage, ami the laws of life, their drama.
|o\\r very \'0mH“*»l° 8"* ““P°""IY I“‘,‘s'nccen~.= mines to the men who have
selected pnrfs suited to their charac- ter. mul have wisely and diligent); pluycd their parts,-played them wit
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tI5(i)\¥ts`to wi‘III\i`iwshIiiitI‘\\lweiiil>;l;Ii`csc0IIo A DIAI'ECTURE‘
whistle down the wind lieciiiisn ilici _ ’°"`
» 1- i Mn, in.. "My wife is foreign born. Sha al-
exlating menus of iiscuss on adequnte? Or shall we make two or \l\`i\§H talk* \\’!`0\f‘-D I-ll¥\8“B\\ ‘WW BIN
known und weighed. I may go furth- ing. three rather slight developments in u4_a\_\_;:\‘y with me." er. One Imperial line of policy in 2,--Let the old iden that the Do-Itbs existing system of Imperial Con- hives V0" If dIlI0°l»\\N. I0 10 which the Pacific slope of Canada is minions are subicct to the British ferences? Surely the latter- lllfnk. -Washington Herald.
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