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(Loud cLe«ra.) They did that for you in war; thfy have 

 not forgotten you in peace ! (Loud cheers.)* Now also tliey 

 want to draw closer together to the Motherland. Now also 

 thoy prefer to deal with you I'ather than with strangers. 

 (Cheers.) They have proved their sincerity by offering to 

 us preferences on everything that we produce and that we 

 send to them. (' Hear, hear.') Tljey ask us to meet them 

 half way. They ask us to grasp the hands which they 

 hold out to us. (Cheers.) They ask us to contribixte to 

 their prosperity without injuring ourselves. Tliey ask us 

 to give them the trade that we now give to the foreigner. 

 (■' Hear, hear.") In return they Avill do more for us even 

 than they have already voluntarily done. They will take 

 more of our manufactures; they will find work for the 

 people in our towns — and remember that the people in our 

 towns are the best customers for the people in the agri- 

 Ciiltural districts. (' Hear, hear.') They will do all thia 

 for us. They can supply us with all the corn and the 

 meat that we require, and that we cannot produce for 

 ourselves. They can supply it us as cheaply as the 

 foreign markets from which we now obtain it. Wliile 

 those foreign markets only take a few shillings per head 

 from \is, these Colonics of ours take as many pounds. And 

 what is to be yoiir answer? What do you say to these men 

 who retain so lively a recollection of their connexion with 

 the old country, who long for the time when we shall Ije 

 indeed a united Empire? Will ycu sniib them? (Cries of 

 ' No, sir.') Will you reject the offers that they make to 

 you? Ladies and gentlemen, believe me here is the 

 greatest of the issues of our time. Let us bind these folk 

 of ours, let us bind them to us by ties of interest as well 

 as by tics of blood and sympathy. Let us unite the 

 Empire ; the great aspiration of the wisest and best of your 

 statesmen. Let us enable the British race throughout the 

 world to hold their own not unmindful of tlie traditions, 

 the glorious traditions, of their past, and able to continue 

 them through generations and the ages yet to come. (Loud 

 and long-sustained cheers.) 



* There loc- no mi'^taJAng the I'cev, ai^preciative feeling of 

 the huge audience at this expression, which was instantly 

 rrspondcd to by a huge outhiuyf of enthusiastic^ cheering. I 



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