THE TEN COMMANDMENTS 



OF EMPIRE. 



A NATIONAL NOT PARTY PROGRAMME. 



I. NATIONAL DEFENCE : VI. 



In matters of National Defence a single 

 day's neglect may mean a century's 

 regret. 



11. EDUCATION : 



The teaching of the people to be good VII. 

 citizens is the foundation of the future 

 of the Nation. 



III. AGRICULTURE : VIII. 



Agriculture is the nursing mother of 

 the State. 



IV. WELFARE OF THE WORKER : 



An honest wage for a fair day's work. IX. 



V. THE LIFE BLOOD OF THE 

 EMPIRE : 



To people the Empire systematically X. 



means benefit to population and Empire 

 alike. 



NATIONAL ADMINISTRA- 

 TION : 



A smoothly working honest adminis- 

 tration machine is a patent factor 

 for National progress. 



NATIONAL HEALTH : 



A nation without health is a house 



built upon sand. 



INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: 



Unless the house be secure from 

 without, there is small use in pre- 

 occupation on home affairs. 



RELIGION : 



The nation that neglects its soul 

 perishes. 



BUSINESS: 



Trade and Industry are the pioneers 



of civilisation. 



Surely the time has come when the clear-thinking citizen can, and will, dis- 

 tinguish amongst the countless branches of national life those which are continu- 

 ingly essential to national welfare, but a realisation of these national interests 

 implies a duty on the part of the citizen not only to interest himself in the fact 

 that they are national interests, but also to make himself thoroughly familiar with 

 them. Only by so doing can he hope to be of real benefit to his country, and only 

 with such citizens can any country hope to maintain her position in the world. 

 We think that the essential interests of the nation can be resolved into the compass 

 set forth above, and do not think that any essential part of national develop- 

 ment faUs outside of the Ten Commandments of Empire. To keep these 

 commandments in practice as well as in theory would mean the awakening of a 

 nation's consciousness and a national force which this country has never known 

 before. To neglect them is to risk a national debacle. So strongl}^ do we feel that 

 a complete comprehension of these ten commandments is necessary to the well- 

 being of the nation that we intend in every number to deal with each and all of 

 them. That is to say, we will always endeavour to make more clear one or more 

 phases of each of the ten commandments, and, in this way, serve as a signpost to 

 the citizen, indicating the way of national salvation. Let there be party politics 

 at Westminster or elsewhere if you will, but let the mass of thinking citizens save 

 from the petty triumphs or defeats of parties the essential factors of Empire and 

 of national existence. 



