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The Review of Reviews. 



The Nevertheless it is to be 



Empire's ,-,^jj^,j ^j^^^ ^j^^ eighth Con- 



Busmess Men , r /-. 



in gress or Chambers or Corn- 



Congress, merce of the Britisli Empire 



assembled last month in London did, by a 

 vote (based on population) of 122 against 9, 

 58 remaining neutral, reaffirm its opinion in 

 favour of preferential trade within the 

 Empire. The Lord Mayor of Manchester 

 pleaded for free trade within the Empire as 

 a higher ideal. But it is evident that with 

 business men of the British race the unitive 

 tendency is now running at full tide. The 

 Congress passed resolutions urging the 

 need of permanently uniting the British 

 Empire for consultation, commerce and 

 defence. Similarly the Canadian Minister 

 of Trade, Mr. G. E. Foster, now in this 

 country, has been ingeminating in our ears 

 the importance of organising the Empire 

 as his compatriots organised Canada. The 

 Congress took a large view of its duties. It 

 even dared — quite unanimously — to invade 

 the ecclesiastical sphere, and to demand 

 that a fixed date be established by inter- 

 national agreement for Easter I Will the 

 churches ever consent to so audacious 

 an inno\ation .■' 



No survey of the Empire 



Henniker Heaton, during the last month 



Empire Worker, would be Complete without 



notice of the splendid and 



still more splendidly deserved public tribute 



at the Guildhall to Sir Henniker Hdaton, 



who has at last been rewarded in some 



measure for his yeoman services to the 



Empire. No man has done more to bring 



the various jjortions of the British Empire 



closer together. The pioneer and achiever 



of an Empire Penny Postage, Sir Henniker 



Heaton has his permanent and Imj)erial 



monument in every letter which leaves or 



r holograph /yO [H.fff. 



Sir J. Henniker Heaton, Bart 



Sir John Henniker Heaton, who received his baronetcy at the 

 end of January, was born at Rochester in 1848. He is not 

 only the father of Imperial Penny Postage, which he carried in 

 189S, but it is due to him that the Penny Post was intro<luced 

 between this country and the United Stales ten years later. He 

 represented Canterbury in Parliament for over Iwenly years. 



arrives at the shores of the Empire bearing 

 a j)enny stamp. The hands are the hands 

 of Esau, but the voice is the voice of Jacob. 

 It is good news to the Empire and to tlie 

 world at large that this intlefatigable worker 

 is indefatigable still and as determined as 

 ever to accomplish fresh marvels. Who 

 can realise the immensity of his work? He 

 is the only man who can claim to have 

 concretely and tangibly benefited every 

 Empire citizen, and saved to all i^d. out of 

 2Ui. And there remains much more to be 

 done. Cheaper magazine rates, chcajjer 

 cables — there is no end to the list. 



