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In proposing the health of Mr. Hughes the Chairman mid their guest had become so familiar a figure in this country and bad
they are
We must know, too, to what extent, jič an all, the Pesce Treaty limits. Lour scope of action, to what extent, if at all, it makes for the re-establishment, of the condition that existed before the war. We se around us chaos where there
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THE EMPIRES DESTINY.
THE CROSS ROADS.”
THE VIEWS OF MR. HUGHES,
Mr. W. M. Hughes, "the Prime Minister of Australia was the principal guest at a farewell luncheon given in his honour by should be order, unemployment. indus the British Empire Producers Organisa-trial unrest. going to the very root of tion in the Connaught Rooms on June things, and aggravated a hundred times
Viscount Milace presided over
by the luck of a definite policy apoa.which could be erected that urganisation which was, and is, so obviously necessary, Com- plete collapse is only avoided "by resort to disastrous expedients. The nation is still for thinust spart living on its capital, and, like a man living by sucking Some of the shapes kept in stock: his own blood, the end it easy to foresen. of course, after such a war, confusion to same extent was inevitable, and things But how are the manufacturers of Britain to know may get better its time goes 02. what they are to do in the absence of some definite assurance of what the policy of Britain t to be How are the Oversea Dominions in kno
ons to know where they are to lock markets for the raw materials neLES- ether hand, it realised that one of oursary for the manufacturers of Britain? Is greatest troubles at the crisis of the war rade to blow where it fisteth as it did
and this to
before the war, the home market of a great extent» rounteracted the great Britain being capioited by Germany and cevelopment of our Imperial reso Now the question might be asked, once the shipping dalhealty was rehered, whether we should sip tick to what he could not help describing as our off ·regrettable in-
occupied so great a space in the public eye that they almost began to forget that though the whole Empire might be his spiritual, home his actual place of resi denty and bis utficial headquarters were in the Antipodes. (Latighter. During the war the British Empire keurned to depend upon self: iv feared what its own resources could de in
Der
which at bad ter ralised before; but on the
was the sunreity of
for
other countries Arg Biermans, helped or not by the Treaty to be permitted to carry the war, either under their own names on trade in this country as they did before rander some guis mary or less trans- parent! I so, then nothing is mare cer: in than tha: in a comparatively short period of time Germany will again creep back into ber old position, and the war; with all its horrors, all its trials and sacrifiers, will base been fought almost elin vain. Herr, hear) -
difference na to the sources from which we drew an "aw materials and the other things we wanted. It always struck him as a most catrordinary tact that there should be this degree of indifference any part of the Empire as 20 TEM
supply, and that it should be res anyone as a matter of no consequence
by
ether, especialis for sita cominotaurous ones, tell us that all is changed-
Same Priedulons persone, and some very cherin Mermany ! That the thrones of the nighty have been overturned, that where but yesterday the pond, and despotic ohenzorers reigned unchallenged and saddler, a man of the people, a Socialist, unthallengeable, Shirt, the
But even if this change were permanent, even if it were a change of the
and not from the
outward, even if the spirit of the
of
une part of the Empire was dependent upon foreign countries or upon other parts of it. and until the essential neces sity of depending, far its 10 WILS humanely possible, upuit other countries under the same tag was more generally recognised we soould never enjoy anything. like the full "advantage of oor wal Jinformal einenship. (Cheers.)
( THE WAR TRADE CONDITIONS.
now rules,
heart
· for the moment purged of
said: The position before the war reflect
Mr. Hughes, who was warmix received.hich no one but dwellers in' the clouds
elieve how will that profit us if Ger-
resours and trade of the Empire and For the welfare, of the of the world great mass of the people depends mainly not upon political bat etonomic condi.
kiona.
1
དྷྭ་
MỘT KẺ THÌ HOME LARAE1S. How can the Empire make for the men who saved it a place worthy of them if has no control of its own trade and industry i The workers demund, and rightly their place in the sun. better rags, better conditions of labour. But ensure
ed little credit either upon our patristimany regains her economic hold of the or pan our common sense (Hear, hear. The hty thunders of war rent the yell that bid aidan the machinations of Go many, and the full outs of her policy of peaceful penetration were inade visible to all hut, those who would not see. Wher I had the honour of speaking before this association in 1916 and 1918 I set but the position
saw it, and I think the great bulk of the peoples of these islands and throughout the empire recognised it to be. I reminded you of the greatness of etr heritage, the unrivaled potentialities of this great Empire, JCH
of abundance of nearly all these raw materials which the how are these things to be assured unless modern custrial world demands, and the development of its great resources in
has a poliry which will without which not only the prosperity but raw materials, ensure trade for its mer- the very existence of Britain as a nation,cantile marine, and such control of its grent in manufacturing and trading, markets as to ensure employment for
csolutely depends.
then
I asked its own people i There are the home question, which unhappily would only be markets and the foreign marke
markets. Both answered in one
Into whose
hands are good, hat the for-ign
are bad pass.
Passed the way.
control, not only of runs
house built upon. of th
quicksands--it cunn
ndure
That and economie, as is the blood to the body nation which has a policy which ensures these things, vital to the body nation the home market is market without physical, but also largely of our manu its hone markets for its own producers is. facture and trade and finance within our best equipped for the intense competition on estadel? As Herr Zimmermann, the that will most certainly exist in the for German publicist, stated during the war, eign markets. Organisation is
sential Germany had`elimbed, to greatness by
The
to success in modern industry and com-
means of England's policy of the. open merce, Effective organisation is impos Goor." Let me quote his own words:
rdssible without some control of the home We are sojourners in
house. markets. And, Germany ім still the best paying guests of the secret of our success lies, apart from our organisation "and the training of our working classes, in the fact that England And the countries which are the gran ducers of raw materials, granted as an
organised
in the world. Nothing country is pre certain than that unless a
a definite policy, is adopted that will give British manufacturers a preference in the home larger market within the Empire for their kats and to the Overseas Dominions, a will Imperial
Vest reservoirs of raw material. If this trade
but the
open door, allowed us to draw or their raw materials, not ire itselt tend te permission is withdrawn we shall be at disin. For the surest the is that of
of matual self-interest. (Hear, hear.)
une stroke, once more the
1580. Our dependence on the non Dominions must develop their great
Bave
heri-
nore than 15,000 of
was so great that it is no exaggeration to tage, and to this end they must find re- say that cur system of protection was gular and profitable markets for an ever only possible because the Anglo-Saxon put increasing
supply of raw materials. at our disposal their fields of cheap Already there are more
pro- duction neress the sea."
But, enys
Herr white population in the Overseas Domin Zimmermann, they did more. They ions. In twenty-five years the Dominions, ave admission to our merchants, trade will have a white population at least equal agents, commercial establishments, every-to that of Britain
-day is the Em- where in their broad domains, looked pire to endure throughout the years to kindly on them as long as they were come, or are we to drift apart? It would
modest, and thereby they assisted materi SUPID. from
the utterances, or at all ever
events to open markets for our industrial from the attitude of some people in products.
We know what this policy did Britain, that the Empire is only another for Germany, and we know, what it name for Britain. I mer
need hardly say that did for Britain and the Empire. The this is
is a view the great Dominions do not quastion we have κα ask ourselves
to-day ba
share. And
it certainly is opposed to the policy that a
olivious darts. An economic policy, for so nearly destroyed us and so nearly gave Britain that does not
the facts Germany mastery of the world--that of
recognise will-i; may be slowly but, the Empire. are now possible. We have pasking
is. Are we going back to this
would most certainly have given her comel surely destroy
plete mastery had she been content to but. 41
rely upon it a few years longer? If we come to the cross-ronds. are not going back, what is our policy to b. What is it to-day t
this
QUE ECONOMIC POLICY,
we
1 Is Bri
It may be so, brofection and comfort character, which will bind us togethe
hours are deciding the destiny of the Empire. Are these self-governing Domin ions-inspired, as they now are, by a keen sense of national sentiment, born of the What is Britain's economic policy part they have What is the Empire's economic policy?to be bound to Bed in the great war
to Britain and to each other The time has come when un anwer sh the bye was to have a great lunperial partner be forthcoming. When We Acan economie heavens for a sign, what do we ship in which the national and economie
el Are we to accept as an omen of the interests of each are dawning of
a new day the adoption oftain, to whom the Dominions owe 20 the principle of Imperial preference Is much and
the grain if mustard seed destined to surse side they bave fought
to and's
Dis great fight for liberty, grow into a mis
a mighty tree beneath whose going to adopt a policy sheltering
truly Imperial in Foliage the peoples of our Empire
shall find
ensuring not only the prosperity of one could
wish
for someone of the free nations that make up
this far wider and
more.
Empire, but the permanence of the Gelinite policy, and will not say.
but a clearer Empire itself? Are we to have & and more defatte indication of the basis of Britain for the British, Canada Britain is to rest. The war has created and the Empire for us all, forming conditions which, as I see them, can only League of Nations ourselves as well as be dealt with by organisation. Even those Nations which they say is to be, but is who desire the status quo and deny the
part of that greater League of necessity for any chal gurely admit I as they were before the war, a policy
holding
not set-or are we to go back to things is in- died to be evil
that that there shoulding,
be certitude, that mant
fact-whatever it in fact facturers and Producers should be told plainly what
is to be done. (Hear, bear.)
for, I
apon which the future economic polier of Canadians, Australia
for the
Aust 2
of
Right be in Dame
&
was a policyBritain and the Empire
alone,
of letting things Nations, like men, can adapt themselves for the Germans, a policy dictated by
to
are
01
e stable, but uncertainty, and instability Britain, by international francet, y
to be swept of every enemy
are for British manufacturers, if they interest, or is the voice of the so-called-
hold that?"own"
the crusing or international finance, to
the defeatist, or the interesta
burden of war debt, the increased cost of of
material and labour, must have settled prevail These are some of the questions policy to which they can adapt themselves to which we all earnestly desire, carly. (Hear, bear.) They must know where answers. (Cheers.}
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