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Earl Grey bids farewell to Quebec. 



man and of the occasion. Lord Grey made prompt 

 but courteous havoc of the endeavours which have 

 'been freely made to turn the Canadian elections to 

 •party account in this country. He said : — 



The metliotl in which tlie various self-governing units of the 

 Fnipire may collect llie revenue required to enable them to 

 fulfil their national and Imperial obligations is regarded by 

 Canadians as a local matter within the sole jurisdiction of the 

 Dominion concerned. They claim the right to tax British 

 import?, should their revenue and national requirements render 

 such a lax in their opinion desirable, and they do not wish to 

 interfere with the desire of the people of the United Kingdom 

 to raise their revenue in such way as may seem best to them. 



He was equally emphatic in dis- 

 avowing, on behalf of the people 

 of Canada, "sympathy with any 

 form of Imperialism which involves 

 the idea of Jingo aggressiveness or 

 arrogant refusal to acknowledge the 

 equal rights of others " : — 



The Empire, of which Canada realises 

 she is one day destined to become 

 the controlling part, stands not for 

 afffressiveiiess, not for the wanton, arro- 

 gan , or unscrupulous exercise of force, 

 Liut for the ideals of fair play, freedom, 

 duty and righteousness, and for an un- 

 grudging recognition of the equal rights 

 of others. Yes, it is because these are the 

 noble and inspiring ideals of the liritish 

 .Empire that every patriotic Canadian, like 

 every patriotic Uriton, in whatever part 

 of the world lie may reside, regards it as 

 a privilege, the value of which no wealth 

 can measure, to be able to call himself 

 a British cit'zen. It is because the liritish 

 Empire stands for a community of ideal?, 

 ideals of the highest practical manly 

 Christia^ily. that the allegiance of the 



Empire in all parts of the world is so 

 whole hearted and universal. 



Once the world is convinced that 

 Lord Grey's ideal of the British 

 Empire is accepted by its subjects, 

 once the Jingo fiend is for ever 

 laid, the Empire will be trusted as 

 the manifest agent of the loftiest 

 purposes of collective mankind. 

 One result of the political change 

 in the Dominion is that Lord 

 -Strathcona remains in the country 

 as High Commissioner for Canada. 

 California has 

 carried with a 

 Sex and Colour, decisive majority 

 an amendment 

 to its Constitu- 

 tion, extending the franchise to 

 women. A suggested consequence 

 is that an editor, who is now charged 

 with publication of improprieties, shall be tried before 

 a jury composed, in part at least, of women jurors. 

 This is a hint that Britoniart in the Law Courts may 

 yet make short work of the dragons of the slitne. 

 On the other hand, it is significant that the 'I'ransvaal 

 Native Union have issued a request for the abolition 

 of trial liy jury in cases to be adjudicated between 

 black and white. The trouble about Liberia has 

 been ended by putting that black Republic under 

 American supervision. Though at present only a 



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Cheering the Duke of Connaught on his arrival in Ottawra as 

 Governor-General of Canada. 



