EMPIRE 95 



of the Dominions, and to obtain its use the United 

 Kingdom must come to an understanding with the 

 Dominions. 



The nature of that understanding is as follows : 



The United Kingdom is unusually well endowed 

 for the manufactures, possessing coal to a greater 

 extent than any other country in the world and 

 containing a manufacturing population superior to any 

 other. All the advantages for manufacture exist, 

 therefore, at least as favourably in the United Kingdom 

 as anywhere else in the world. 



On the other side of the reckoning the Dominions 

 possess resources in land greater altogether than are to 

 be found in any other country. 



The circumstances exist, therefore, for a highl}^ 

 favourable exchange between the country where in all the 

 world manufacture can take place most advantageously 

 and those countries where agricultural production is 

 carried on with the greatest success. An exchange of pro- 

 ducts between these two groups would carry with it the 

 maximum of advantage to each of them, the one side ob- 

 taining the best and cheapest manufactures in the world, 

 the other the best and cheapest agricultural products. 



For such a state of things to be brought about it 

 requires only the conclusion of an agreement between 

 the parties and the carrying out of the measures to 

 make the agreement effective. 



First of these measures is the supply of a sufficient 

 population to the Dominions to enable them to produce 

 the import requirements of the United Kingdom. 



The second is to establish a protection over the 

 United Kingdom and the Dominions in order to 

 prevent their plans for a common exchange of products 

 from being subject to the interference of other nations. 



The establishment of such a state of affairs would 

 benefit both the Dominions and the Home Country. 

 The Dominions would obtain an access of population 



