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8. A.,
TUESDAY
17TH
AUGUST
1920.
days
ago
with
the
British
West
India
|
Islands,
and declared
that the
lead given
|
by_Canada.
had
h&d
au
inevitable
re-
|
action
in
the
United
Kingdom
where
|
the principle of preference
had
been
re-
|
cognized by the
granting of
actual
pre-
|
ference
rn_colonial
produets,- In
addi-
|
tion
to- better
eommodities,
said
Sir
|
(zeorge.
trade
meant,
in
a larger
sense,
|
an exchange of man
power
of spiritual-
|
ity
and
the
enterprise
of peoples.
In
|
the
last
fifty yeays,
He
said,
the best
|
of brains and character
which has
pour-
|
ed from
the British
isles
to this country
|
had
been
contributing
forces
in
the
|
world’s development.
In
so far
as:
this
|
contribution
had
gone
to
Rritish
coun-
|
tries,
the
effect
had
been
to
benefit
|
the
British
race,
but
much
of this
val-
|
uable
man
power
‘had
gone
to
foreign
!
countries.
It was,
he
declared,
unrea-
|
sonable
to
expeect that
British
emigra-
|
tion
should
be
directed
solely
to
the
|
colonies
of the
Empire,
but
it
was
fair
|
ta ask
that
these
colonies
chould
have
|
the first
call.
Trade
ought
to be
idea-
|
lized.
In the original
barter
of commo-
|
dities
between
neighbours
to
their
mu-
|
tual
advantage,
and
later
in
the
first
|
activities
of
the middle
man,
as
a useful
|
agent
between
such
neighbours,
trade
had
meant
only
service
to
mankind,
|
rather
than
dividends,
and
this
must
|
again
become
the
paramount
considera-
|
tion.
If British citizens
would
use
their
l
enterprise
and
spirit
of
adventure
in
|
developing
ther
natural
resources
for
the good
of
one
another,
%?‘ey
could
|
make
the
waste
spaces
of
the
Empire
|
“‘blossom
like
the
rose’’.
He
wished
|
he had the power
of a wizard
so that
he
could
take hold of the power
of the
Em-
|
pire and
use it
for
the
devglgpment
of
|
the democracy
and
the prosperity
ct
the
|
Empire.
‘‘bat’’, said
Sir George,
we
|
have all the_power
that
such
a
wizard
|
would
use and
we can
use it if we
will tc
|
the same
end.
If British
eitizens
woulid
{
make up their
minds
to it’’, he
contin-
|
ued,
"‘they were
equipped
to
meet
the
|
menacing
years
ahead,
which
are
not
|
less
menacing
than
the
darkest
days
of
|
the
war
and
they
would
weather
the
|
shoals
as they
had
met
the
dangers
of
|
-war’’.
Sir'George
receivéd
an -ovation
|
at the end of his
speech
and
the
chair-
|
man’s
vote of
thanks
was
warmly
en-
|
dorsed.
Lord Burnham
said that
news-
|
papers
combined
perhaps
to .ake
the
|
nearest
approach
to
the
world
wizard,
|
Sir
George
had referred
to,
and
that
|
they hoped
to
use
their
pOwer
for
the
realization
of the objects
which
he
had
urged
upon
them.
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TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
(Delayed in
transmission,)
Uttawa,
Aug.
Tih.—lhe -seCond
ses-
sion
of
ihe
Imperial
Press
Conference
closed
this afternoon with
a short
ses<ion
in
which
n.erely
routine
business
was
taken
up
and
disposed
of
and
the
dele-
gates
left tc-night
for Torgnto.
Empire
trade
formed
the
subject,of
an address
by Sig
George
Foster
beforg
the
Satur-
day morning
cenference.
Sir
George
said
he
welcomed
the
opportunity
of
meeting
men
whose
influence
for good
orevil
was
so tremendous.
No bounds,
he said,
could be set
on
“he achievements
of a high-minded
and
united
press
with-
in the Empire.
Its opportunity
for
mis-
chief
as well as for good
was
boundless,
and it ought
to make-pressmen
feel their
responsikility.
He
was
glad,
he
con-
-
tinued,
that the
question
of imperial
trade had
been
placed
in
the forefront
of the convention.
As
to
the
name
Im-
perial
he
did
not
object
to it
one iota,
in fact
he
r.joiced
in
it, because
of its
influence
in beckoning forward
to
great-
¢ things
within
the
Empire.
If
this
linperial Press
Conference
would throw
its weight
and
influence
behind
the
ad-
vocacy of Empire trade
dzvelopment
and
stay
with
it
for
twenty-five
years,
its
progress
would
-eclivse
anything
ever
accomplished
of
a
like
pature
in
Cana-
da,
said
Sir
George.
He
had
taken
a
very strorg
position
in regard
to impe-
rial trade and
there
were
many
ways
in
which it
could
be
fostered,
one
of
the
most essential
being
the
method of pre-
ference
between
the
component
parts of
the
Empire.
He
then
traced
the
pre-
ferences
granted
by Canada
since
1879
down
to the one consummated
only a few
..
189.
Ottawa,
Aug.
Bth.--At
the
I[mperial
Press
Conference
yesterday
Lord
Burn
ham
read
the
following
cablegram:
““The members
of our Appeal Committee
ask
you
to
invite
consideration
by
the
conference
of
the
imperial
movement
dealing
with
the
appalling
conditions
of disease
and distress
in the war-striken
areas
of
Europe.
with
am
outbreak
of typhus
as
the
most
imminent
peri].
An
internaticnal
movement
is
afoot
through
the initiative
of
the League
of
Nations
and
the
Red
Cross
societies.
The
imperial
war
relief
fund,
whose
patron
is His
Majesty
is the body
chos-
en
by
the
League
of
Nations
and
the
Red Cross societies
to'lay he
appeal
be-
fore
the
peoples
of
the
Empire.
The
whole Empire
is invited
to act
together
in this humanitarian
effort. Canada,
Aus-
tralia
and
New
Zealand
are
acting-
through
their
Governor
General,
and
South Africa is working
in the
same
di
rection
under
the
leadership of the Pre-
miecr,
Genera!
Smputs.
Will the
editors
place the need
and appeal Lefore the
Em-
pire giving a stirring lead
to publie opin-
ion’’.
Signed
Edward
Cooper,
Lord
~
s ayor ot London,
and Lord Richard
Ca-
vendish,
Chairman
of
the Imperial
War
Reiiet Fl;.%d.T"§ £ I
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Meet-
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which
was
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August
16, bhas,
by
consent
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