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London fog. Instead of that, the traveller who goes to seek 

 will find a happy people of the good old English stock, men 

 to whom the Flag of England and respect for the King are 

 no mere idle terms, but are a living ideal, which the lapse 

 of centuries has not palled. There, too, you will find none 

 of the pushful arrogance that often comes with new-found 

 strength. Newfoundland has had some hard knocks from the 

 ignorance of Downing Street, and her Governors, who are 

 in the best position to know, have often been treated with 

 scant respect ; but withal, she does not fling herself into 

 hysterics and talk of independence, but quietly awaits the day 

 when England shall be governed by men who do not " only 

 England know," but have the interests of the whole Empire 

 at heart. I do not know much about politics, but I have 

 travelled much in British colonies, yet it seems to me that 

 until we have members of Parliament whose minds circulate 

 a little farther than the village pump and their own small 

 interests, we shall never know our own people or appreciate 

 their ambitions. 



One really clever man, Mr. Chamberlain, does not belong 

 to that school. Whether his views about tariff reform and 

 colonial preference are sound I will not discuss, but, right or 

 wrong, he is a great man because he has done all that one 

 man could do to lay bare our national self-sufficiency and the 

 folly of neglecting "the cry of the children" when they call. 



Then, too, Newfoundland is not a land of fog and ice- 

 bergs. It has a fairly severe winter, but its late summer and 

 autumn are certainly finer than Scotland. 



" Over there is a sense of freedom we know not here. 

 There is the great sun, the wide horizon, the dancing rivers, 

 and the woods of ever-changing beauty. There is the blazing 

 noon, with its manifold sights and moods of Nature — the 



