The Review of Reviews. 



old Auslralia said to forly-fivc-ycar-old Canada, "You are a 

 grand race and wc are proud of you. You are beginning to 

 discover that you have two great gateways, but wc from 

 Australia, who arc throwing all our boys into military service, 

 and are building battleships and cruisers and submarines, say 

 to our older brother, ' You go and do likewise.' " 



We believe that Mr. Borden is prepared 

 not only to go and do likewise, but to go 

 and do more. He has realised that the 

 Imperial Navy is the greatest of Imperial 

 common denominators. 



The visit of the new 

 Canada Canadian Premier to this 



Solidified by ^ • i ,- , 



Mr Taft Country witli seven or the 



principal members of his 

 Cabinet will doubtless evoke this month a 

 welcome worthy of the Dominion and 

 worthy of the Motherland. Mr. Borden 

 comes not merely as head of one Canadian 

 Party; he represents a Canada that is now 

 united on the crucial issue of, the last 

 General Election. President Taft's phrase 

 about " Canada as a mere adjunct to the 

 United States " has settled that — much 

 more decisively than did the Canadian 

 ballot-boxes. ■' Sir Wilfrid Laurier, sur- 

 rounded by the chiefs of his party, at a 

 banquet given in his honour at Toronto, 

 has formall}- declared that as a Constitu- 

 tionalist he accepts the verdict of his 

 countrymen. For Mr. Taft he had very 

 emphatic words: — 



Canada can never be an adjunct of the United States, except 

 with the consent of the Canadian people, and that consent 

 cannot be obtained by all the profits and wealth of the United 

 Stales. Whether we trade or not, Canadians wc are, and 

 shall remain. 



Thus, with deeper unity of purpose than 

 ever, Canada sets about finding her 

 economic future in the Empire rather 

 than in tlic Republic. Mr. Foster is here 

 to organise the development of British and 

 lMU'()|)ean trade with the Dominion and the 

 migration ol' po|)idation to Canada. Ik- 

 counts on half a million settlers arrisintr 



o 



every year, and expects that in fifty years 



the Canadian people will be fifty million 

 strong. As though to prepare for this 

 influx, with all that it involves, the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway is laying down a double 

 track of lines along its route over the Rocky 

 Mountains to the tune of twelve millions 

 sterling. 



The Canadian Ministers 



A Pregnant 



Imperial 



Precedent. 



come amongst us enhaloed 



awakens, the suggestion 



with the dawn of a splendid 

 era. Their presence 

 which accelerated 

 and, let us hope, safer ocean travel makes 

 ever more feasible — that every new Cabinet 

 in the four great Dominions should employ 

 its first long recess in a visit to the Mother 

 Country, and have its appointment — which 

 the Governor-General has already made 

 oflicially complete— confirmed personally 

 and with regal ceremony by the British 

 Monarch. A law to this effect is out of 

 the question. But if Mr. Borden so sets 

 the custom, he will have done the cause of 

 Imperial unity no small service. The 

 world is still ruled by personality, and if 

 every Premier in Greater Britain were as a 

 matter of course brought into personal 

 touch with the wearer of the British Crown 

 and with his Home Ministers, the sain 

 would be great to the Empire and to 

 mankind. 



For the dynasty is an aW\d- 



Alexandra 



the 



Beloved. 



ing common denominator 



of Empire. The Sovereign 

 and the Royal Family are 

 common possessions to all parts of the wide- 

 spread British Empire. Great dominions 

 as well as isolated and infinitesimal islands 

 alike feel that the British monarch and his 

 I'amily iielong to them. For this reason, 

 if for no other, ilieiv can never be any 

 serious question of weakening the position 

 of the monarchy in this country. And all 



