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MR. TAFT: A MODERN MACHIAVELLI ?
THE PROBLEM OF THE PACIFIC..
THE HONGKONG OSILY PRESS, WEDNESD Y JUNE 28to, 1911,
In this Coronation year, when matters of political moment are apt to receive loss attention than they would at other time, the Amorionn Goromment has elected to place before the British people two proposals of a remarkable
which for most serious con-
neutralise-If posathio, to dissolve the unholy.) THE ELECTIONS IN PORTUGAL, league between the White Britain of the West and the Yellow Britain of the East to facilitate the merch of Pan-Americanism throughout the It was generally exposted, says a Loaden continent, as well as its oxtension over the papur. that the elections for the Constituent Pacibo Quean; and at the same time, haply, to Assumibly in Portugal would be little more than aliay any feelings of pain or anspicien which an empty form. The Monarchists took no part the projected Canada 5000p Way havo in the contest, and in most constituencies the awakened in susceptible British breasts. These, nominees of the provisional Government had no in the minds of thlaking mon, are the opposition to meet. It is not surprising, thera motives which underlie the magnificently in-fore, that the results of the polling should re-
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silent acquiese the return of their candidatos as a decisive for ment of the Empire; and, secondly, the proposi-euse in the other. They can hardly be of the attachment of the people of Hon of an Anglo-American arbitration, tro ty, blamed if, American indifference towards, treaty Portugal to the new régime. Their antis- obligations in such matters as the maintenanes faction will be all the greater because of warships on the Great Lakes and the fortig-
the list wook or so there have been many cation of the Panama Canal tends to diminish reports of serious marest in the country and their suthusiasm for now engagements. Least predictions of a counter revolution on the part to some qualms lest the peace-pursuing wateacrests which have latol been made and from of all must they be condemned if they confess of the Monarchists. That some such attempt was foured coms clear from the numerous men of this country, now swallowed
Up in fastion at the fancied dawn of the Millennium, the movements of troops and warships to guard should awake to find that it was only a dream," against an invasion from the northern frontier. and that, while they slopt, the obisfost portion | What is also certain is that the messure of the Imperial heritage it was theirs to preserve drawn up for the separation of Charék and intact had passed for over from their kontato has excited teen hostility among the E. B. M. in Pall Mall Garelle,
with the United States, to the detri- the shadow of a raw perceive in the one Directory, and ita mambers will no doubt heil
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THE LATEST INSURANCE AMALGAMATION.
PHENIR AND UNION MARINE
The Times of the 1st inst. contains the following
clergy and their alherouts. It has provuk
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As the consequanes, either of acceptance or of rejection, promise to be momentous, it bakover us to do nothing in haste of which we should repent in leisure, Can any thinking wan ar that the British Empire, just at prosent, ia in a position to lukea leap in the dark P
Adversity, it is said, makosstrange bed fellows. Sotan such circumstance must account for the fret that those two propositions, despite their incongruity, are before the British public at the ang time. Nevertheless, a very intimate cou pection exists between them; and whether that connection be innocent or sinister, the resulting
od a vigorous Papal Eucyclical in which situation is prognant with possibilities for the
the anti-religions policy of the Republican nationa concorrel, and for an Empire which
Gncerument is strongly denounced, and thera already has arrived at the parting of the wars.
are rumonts
is that the priests my close the Both the Americas President's propositions
churches anal refuse to accept the stipends which possess pleasing exterior. Mr. Taft
ta deserver
the State would providlo in place of the scient of the art ninxtery
of congratulated on ins
rorundos. The separation has not yet taken diplomatic window dressing-an art, it may be
uffect, but in view of the strong religious fec remarked in
in passing, to which American states.
of the peasantry, especially in the men have not, in the just, paid much attention,
Portugal an attempt to enforce it my well What braw youthmon the patious workl
Presumably because a very inaccurate report land to serious trouble. The wisdom of provok nol feel flattered by being addressed as if he had
was yesterday published in certain papers the ing a bitter conflict with the Church while the attained the maturity of manhood? What
announcement is now made that a provisional Republic is still may be doubted. It is Radical Governant, confronted on the one hand with heary obligations on the root of agreement has been signed for the sequisition said that the Minister for Foreign Afris of the Union Marine Insurance Company by the anust understand the attitudo of the Holy social legishlios, and on the other with increas. Phoniz Assurance Offeo. The announcement See, but in view of the statement recently ingly insistent demands for diminution of will not come as a great suprise to these who made by the author of the law, the Minister of expenditure en armaments, could fail to have their fingers on the pulse of either the Justice, that it would lead in two generation. allured by a proposition * sicklied o'er with the firm or marine insurance businesses. This is to the complete disappearance of the Roman pale cast" of peaco?
not the frat amalgamation that has been Catholic religion in Portugal, the hostility of hatched within the board-room of the Phonix the Church is hardly surprising. Even the Office, and ever since July, when the office Protestant congregations in Portugal are said modest seale, it has been rightly suspected of stated underwriting marine risks on a very to be alarmed at the harsh and arbitrary pro
visions of the Government's measure. Of distinct marine insuranen leanings. The Union course, if the Republican leaders believe that has been one of the few strong independent they have the mass of the nation at their back. marine offices; like some of its rivals the often they may feel if safe to disregard the protests has suffered severely in recent years, but the which interested parties thay direct against their connection is influential, and it is not at all policy. But the results of the elections are not surprising that a company casting about for suficient in themselves to prove that public teca means of going into the macino insurance spizion is firmly naited in support of the big calo should coret it. It is new régime. Under the Monarchy the "making business on
коме weeks a
rumour should of elections" was a conspicuous feature of the have been freely bandied about that a develop-political fo in Portugal, and it would seem
rity that for at was to be expovied--especially as the that the present Gorerament has thought fit to
seems to have caused a rise in the shares follow the example of its predecessors. within the last few works from about £6 to time was spent iu davising a usw electoral. £85.-but the standing of the Union Company and when the measure was finally published it is so high that no one would suppose for an was found to contain most of the vices of the former system, the only difference apparently instant that the escape of half the truth wes ofher than paroly accidental how the story being that while the old rozulations were de only contained half the truth is apparent from signed to favour the Monarchical parties, the new were framed to snit the interests of the the fact that in Liverpool at the beginning of the week the surge of the Liverpool and London Republicans. It would also soom that tho and Globe me freely coupled with it--a union provisional Government has taken good euro to koop it opponants in subjection during which, on the face of it, would certainly not be
the last few months. All newspapers Es suitable as another that could be suggested.
which have displayed a critical tendency bare
So far as the first of his prepositions is CCR- certed, Mr. Taftlas relieved us of the nece sity of any search for motives. The purpose under. lying the Reciprocity home is declared, with disarming frank sess to bi nothing more or Jesu than that the United States bould effect the commercial annexation of Cottada before the band of preferential tariff can bring the British Empire into unity. American statesmen seen greatly concerned least the somewhat incoherent congeries of Dominions, Colonies, and Protec torates which now forins au Empire în name
shoold become an Empire faol Wherefore the President arunciates the curious doctrine that, while a Chinese wall" of protective tariffs may ally be erected about the North American Continent, including Canails, no such barrier mast lo permitted to encirole the British Empire. Cand is invited to break with ber Imperial traditions, tc cart in bor lot with her Republican neighbour, and to assist the latter in maintaining “a
"better
control of price making inflreneus !! iz the markets of the Mother constry. Such a polios can not fail to load to the disruption of the British Empire, but that,
ix of small consequence boside the commercial drauf lagen which a sperted to acorum, Indoed, the stako is such that Mr. Tait is not prepared to wait for any slow processes of evolution, or devolution, as the ease may be. He insists that the dismemberment of the British Empivo must bundertakes now or never." Presumably this indecent haste is dictat d by the fact that an Imperial Conference, designed to promote the unity of that Empire, is now austing. Is il not smazing that such a cynically material. proposition should be conjoined with one for a treaty of peace and arbitration? Con- fronted by Audli an ofer, might not the attitude of the Canadian peopes (whose destiny as the fature hub and centre of the Empire is passing glorious) be appropriately based on the elastic pracodent: Times Danaos et doua ferentes
The motives endleriying the second of the Taft proposals have not been divulged. Judged by the shadows whirl the coming route of the near future are already beginning to cast, they are as ominously complex as they are skilfully concealed.
istic
AFFECT ON THE MARKET.
been suppressed, or their officus have been
authorities wrecked by mobs whose excesses the
have felt unable to restraint Monarchist and
Roman Catholic clubs have met with a similar fate, and some noted Republican journalists have found that, it is inadvisable to constrate literally the supposed right of freedom of die- eassion. Audi when it is remembered that the judges who gave in the France trial a verdict adverse to the wishes of the Government were
that other exited to
the colonies and.
of
the
When such an amalgamation is announced the first question, generally asked is, what effect ably it will have upon the business, and the second, how it affects the interests of the shareholders and staffs of the two offices. As regards the first, each absorption of a purely marine ofles by a composite company makes the outlook for those which retain their individuality less certain. The assertion that this is the day of the composite office is becoming worn and bore insistrul. A big composite oflee rotains a large individuals whose loyalty, to the Republic start of agents, and it is considered that these was suspected have been banished from Portugal, may just as well cauvans for marine as for fire it is hardly surprising that the nominees risks, with the result that more and more busi. Directory encountered so little opposition in nest is being driven into a few folds. Among the einntions. However, the sweeping character the giants perhaps the competition geta koster, of the triamph only adds to the responsibilities and a feeling may arise that as connection is the of the Republican lenders. They are exonten prize sought, a composite effee may afford to some little irregabarities by pleading that the dispense, with profits in one branch if the other revelatiozary period was not yet over. With departments are being well fed. The creation the meeting of the Constituent Assembly a new era begins, and the Republicans will have to of ooh a feeling is certainly not for the good of marine anderwriting, or even in the long run show that they can make good all their promises.
If they can establish a sound and honest system of for the shareholders of the big offices.
government, and yet in train some of the many reforms of which Portugal stands in neal, they the task will not be easy, and the namerons will have deserved well of their country. But
So little, comparatively speaking, bas America bad to do, diplomatically, with the world at large that it may be questioned whether the fact that commercialian ferros the Alphs and Omega of American policy receives sufficient
TERMS OF THE AGREEMENT,
The basis of the present transaction is that
Mitory poror
has played no four Union shares ure worth ope Phoenix share, eiken which have taken place since the begin
part in the rise of the nation. greatness has been reared, and rests to-day, on the foundation of the Aluility Dollar; and, given security from exterual in terforense, the prosports of her economie development beccise well-nigh illimitable. One thing, however, may arise to prevent har pro. that is, war with sowe antion more rudely vigorous, moro primitivoly virile, than herself.
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the Union shares at present standing at about £8 5s, and the Phoenix at £33 10a The Unioning of the year show that the people are im shares are £20 web, with £2 108. paid, and for patient to receive the benefits widels they have JOHN
been told would be secured to them by the estab every eight of the shares the Union share-
lishment of a Repablie. It remains to be sten holdere will be offered one Phoenix share of £5
if the disappearance of the Monarchy means the each, with £5 paid, and £34 in der ho coul. disappearance of the vices which made the re- Debenture stock. They thus reduce their un- called ability on eight stars from £140 volation of last October possible. to £45. In Batisfaction of the purchase the Undoubtedly there is, at the present tin, a
Thenix wil have to issue for 65,405 Union considerable amount ofanti-American soatiment shares 2277,950 Debenture stock and 8.175 in Japan. The anti-Japanese, agitation in Plouir Ordinary shares. It is proposed California and the neighbouring States, with
that the transaction, to approta which meet- ngs of the shareholders will be called, shali tako economic aspects; its racial nud
the persistent inge enlt of the "warzcare"; and, last but not least,denu of 3s. per share, tax free, shall be paid on effect as on July 1 next, and that a final diri. the Manchurian neutralission proposals of Scoretary Kuox, have had their logical outcome the Union shares in July. Interest on the in the Land of the Rising Sun.
However,
Debenture stock will necrow from July 1, and .in that paternally-minictored land, the fiat has will be payable on November 1 und May 1 iz shares gone forth that anti-American feeling, at any each year, and the substituted Phoniz rate, is not to be shows. In this respect. the will rank for the ordinary diyktend in Novem Americans erisce less wisdom. Not only bar. The total amount receivable as dividend does
great deal
of anti- Japanese in the present year will amount to about 9a 4d.,
of sentiment exist in America, but no attempt and the fature income, net of tax in respect wiruterer : is made to conceal it. On the con- asch share transferred will be about Te. 40., as trary, there are mon-apostles of the "Yellow compared with the Es. 6d. at present paid by the Feril" from Hobson to Patnam Wouis Union Company. who unblushingly exploit this entiment; and there are non-proprietors of newspapers and the like-whose
it is that they can "make" war. In view of these circumstances, and conscions of the fact that the American pation is, in a peculiar, degree, the creature of impulae, the rulers of the United States have fully persuaded themselves that the Tugos danger may materialise in menacing shape
B
It is intended that the business of the Union Marine still be continued to be worked under its old name and constitution, but no doubt its i offices in the North will be of considerable assistance to the Phoenix Company. The Liver- pool Board, over which Mr. H. R. Robertson, the Chairman of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Beard, presides, is a strong one, and part of the attraction Company's point of view is that nothing in paid of the arrangeblent from the Phoenix any time.
They recognise that, while it was inevitable for goodwill, while & huid in secured in Liver- that, with economic expansion as the goal of pool and Manchester. The Union Company cach in the same quarter of the globe, Japan and made a profit on the 1909 account, but during the Tailed States should be predestined to
The years previously led lost money. Several sivalry, that rivalry, owing to the attitude of a necount written has been large, the
preminu gestion of the American people, ig now income for 1910 being over £405,000. In 1905 a dividend of 173 per cent. was paid, but since Loing intensified by racial prejudice on the one
and offended pride on the other. The criti. then the rate has been 13 per cent, and
the cal year is 1915. What if the restraining in shareholders by approving the acheme will make finenes
of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance cesses to the continued payment of a rather bighor be operative after that date, and, with the add dividend more probable.
factor of
of the Panama Canal, Japanese. Amori. can relations are no better, but rather worse, than they are now!
uch is the nature of the forces threatening the consummation of that policy of "peaceful absorption of un entire continent which American statormen have set before thezuselves. Little wonder, then, that their vision 19 un. xiously directed towards that cloud, no bigger
man's hend," rising out of th than a Pacify the ambition of Japan, To avert the threatened storm an Anglo-American under- standin, on the plansildo baxis of an arbitra- tion treaty, is deemed a necesary measure. By this potont clem American statesmen hope to l
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