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between those peoples. Differences there must 

 arise, petty conflicts of interests and of rights ; but 

 if we approach them in the proper spirit, mutual 

 respect and consideration, I don't believe that any 

 controversy can or will arise among any members 

 of the English-speaking races that will not be 

 capable of satisfactory and honourable adjustment. 

 (Cheers.) I am glad to tell you that this spirit has 

 animated one and all of the plenipotentiaries who 

 have recently been engaged in conference at Wash- 

 ington, and it is upon the existence of that spirit 

 that I base my hope and my belief that we shall find 

 an arrangement of this controversy which will be 

 satisfactory to every man who desires sincerely to 

 promote the unity of the English-speaking peoples. 

 (Cheers.) I don't think it necessary that I should 

 urge upon you your special interest in good neigh- 

 bourhood with that great Republic which for 

 thousands of miles is separated from you only by 

 an invisible line. (Hear, hear.) The great in- 

 terests with which we are entrusted, important as 

 they are, are really insignificant beside the impor- 

 tance of maintaining these good relations — (hear, 

 hear) — and to secure these good relations, to main- 

 tain and confirm them, all that is necessary is that 

 we should approach the difficulty in the spirit that 

 I have indicated, and we should deal with it as 

 among friends who are anxious to come 



TO A SATISFACTORY ARRANGEMENT 



and not as between adversaries struggling for petty 

 points and other extremist rights, and counting 



