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'pioduce on a larger scale and to decrease the cost of the 

 articles that he produces, so that his profit iviU be larger. 

 (' Hear, hear.') To the labourer it will bring benefits propor- 

 tionate to those it brings to the farmer. It will give him a 

 better hope, a regxdar and fairly paid employment. I thin/: 

 he may rest a-'-sui-ed that, while it is not likely in any case to 

 raise the cost of food, it is quite certain that the general 

 cost of living will be reduced. (Cheers.) 



The Colonies. 



" But before I sit down I have one other word to say. 

 My policy is not merely au economic policy. It ia also 

 Imperial. It is not addressed only to your pockets. It is 

 addressed above all to your patriotism, (Cheers.) These 

 changes that I propose will enable us to reciprocate the 

 offers that have come to us from our colonists across the 

 sea. (Cheers.) It will enable us to arrange a closer com- 

 mercial intercourse with those who are not only our chil- 

 dren, but also our best and ever most profitable cus- 

 tomers. (Cheers.) We must always buy something — ^buy 

 a large part of what we consume from abroad. We can 

 never produce all our requirements at home. Would you 

 not rather buy what you vv^ant from your friends, from 

 those who stand by you in trial and stress (loud cheers), 

 than from the foreigner, who is never very sympathetic, 

 never very appreciative of the great work which the 

 British race has undertaken in the world? (Cheers.) I 

 do not believe there are many villages which have not 

 some relative, some friend in one or other of the great 

 Colonies under the British ting. And these distant con- 

 nexions of ours have net forgotten the old home, the old 

 people, the old flag. (Cheers.) They showed their feeling 

 in the late war, when we were in difhculty and doubt. 

 Tliey showed no hesitation in coming to our assistance 

 (cheers); and when the foreigner, whose industry we have 

 been building up during the last 60 years, sneered at our 

 failures and rejoiced at our losses, these colonists of ours, 

 these men of our flesh and blood, gave us their moral 

 and their material support. (Loud cheers.) They poured 

 out their blood. They gave us of their treasui'e. Tliey 

 showed that we were one kin, one people, and one nation. 



