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History of the Prlonth. 



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^o| By giving complete responsible goTernment like they 

 have lu tlie fupe Colony, lue repieseniation must be fair, 

 so as not to give preponueraiicc 10 one locality, an will lie 

 the case with the basis ol one vote one value. .\rea bIiouUI 

 also !» taken into consideration. As regards the Free 

 Stale, ilo not trv tlie experiment of giving us the old Oon- 

 stitution. It will not be workable under the altered cir- 

 cumatances. I foresee constant friction and even deadlock 

 lietween the (iovernment and Raad. as was the cat* in the 

 past between I'reslcient and Kaad. The President could 

 resign and apjwal to the people, and thus remove the dead- 

 lock. With aJi ai)pointed Governor this would be out of the 

 question. 



'It) Bv having the Dut*h language seriously t.uuijht 111 the 

 schools. At present it is only make-believe. lu fact, we 

 want the two lan'-'uages to be placed on equal footing. 



(c) By paying out the three millions to the iieople for 

 •whom it was stipulated. 



Secoiidlv.— We wish England to fulfil her obligations under 

 the Roberts proclamation and under the treaty of the 

 Hague. ,. ,, . 



Thirdly— The Liberals must, according to their promises, 

 take the Chinese out of the country. The British Oovern- 

 ment brought them in and the British Oovernment must 

 take tlicra out. It will not be fair or even manly to sliield 

 yourselves behind a so-called Legislature of wliich half the 

 electorate is neither free nor indepciulcnt. 



Fourthly.— After you have done the above, leave us then 

 severely alone. 



Mr. Keir Hardie alone among the 

 The League of speakers in the debate expressed 

 Peace. regret that nothing had been said 



in the King's Spei-ch on the League 

 of Peace foreshaiiowed by " C.-B." at the Albert 

 Ha!!. The subject, however, is never absent from 

 he mind of Ministers, and we hojx" that we shall 

 before long hear of some practical step being taken 

 in the right direction. My proposal that every year 

 a fixed percentage of the sum devoted to the Army 

 and Navy should be appropriated to provide funds 

 for an active policy of peace has met with very 

 general acceptance, both withirt and without the 

 Ministry. I find that a proposal to appropriate i 

 per cent, for the purpose was made two years ago 

 by Mr. McDowell in the United States, About two 

 hundred of the Liberal and Labour members have 

 written me accepting the principle of .1 per cent. 

 as sound and practical. About 150 of these have 

 accepted the suggestion that the j>ercentage should 

 be decimal point one. Of the 52 Labour members 

 44 have given the proposal their adhesion. Pro- 

 bably the first step will be to create a National Hos- 

 pitality Fund, to be placed at the disposal of the 

 Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. The need 

 for such a fund is obvious, ^^^^en the International 

 Parliamentary LTnion visited the United States two 

 years ago. Congress voted _;^t 0,000 for their recep- 

 tion. The Union will probably be coming to Lon- 

 don in 1907, and there is not a pennv-piece avail- 

 able for their entertainment. The magnificent wel- 

 come given to Sir E. Cornwall and his colleagues of 

 the London County Council last month, on their 

 visit to Paris, is an object-lesson as to how the art 

 of public hospitality can be gracefully exercised. 



The Kaiser is a good hand at 

 driving a hard bargain, but he 

 must feel that the present is not 

 a propitious moment for the hagg- 

 ling of the market at Algeciras. The .^ustro-German 



The 



Break-up of 



Austria. 



.Yfue i-UiihUchUr.\ [Vienna. 



The Austro-Hungarlan CrIeJs, 



Kossuth sewing the Empire together above, whilst the 

 workman below cheers for universal suffrage! 



alliance has been the foundation stone of the edifice 

 of Gennan ascendency. That alliance presupposes 

 that Austria is a power in being. At present it 

 seems ominously like a power in dissolution. The 

 Emperor King has dissolved the Hungarian Parlia- 

 ment, and stands confronting the coalition of Hun- 

 garian patriots, who are not men to be conciliated 

 by the high-handed methods by which the Emperor- 

 King's nominee is endeavouring to overawe the dis- 

 contented Magyars. A little more pressure and the 

 Hungarians may declare themselves independent, 

 declare Francis Joseph deposed, and take to them- 

 selves another sovereign. And then? What will 

 happen then no one can foretell. But one thing is 

 certain. With Hungary in revolt, Austria will have 

 her hands too full on the Danube to be able to lift 

 a finger to aid her ally on the Spree. 



The work of stamping out the 



The Revolution embers of armed revolt goes on 



!■ Russia. steadily, mercilessly in the Baltic 



provinces and in other parts of 



Russia. Martial law prevails in most of the great 



centres of population, and the Party of Law an* 



