If The Australian Colonies Even Now, With Their
Scanty Population And Still Young Civilization, Chafe Against
Imperial Interference, Will They Submit To It When They Feel Within
Their Veins All The Full Blood Of Political Manhood?
What is the
cry even of the Canadians - of the Canadians who are thoroughly
loyal to England?
Send us a faineant governor, a King Log, who
will not presume to interfere with us; a governor who will spend
his money and live like a gentleman, and care little or nothing for
politics. That is the Canadian beau ideal of a governor. They are
to govern themselves; and he who comes to them from England is to
sit among them as the silent representative of England's
protection. If that be true - and I do not think that any who know
the Canadas will deny it - must it not be presumed that they will
soon also desire a faineant minister in Downing Street? Of course
they will so desire. Men do not become milder in their aspirations
for political power the more that political power is extended to
them. Nor would it be well that they should be so humble in their
desires. Nations devoid of political power have never risen high
in the world's esteem. Even when they have been commercially
successful, commerce has not brought to them the greatness which it
has always given when joined with a strong political existence.
The Greeks are commercially rich and active; but "Greece" and
"Greek" are bywords now for all that is mean.
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