THE IMPERIAL RALLY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2499, 12 May 1909, Page 2

THE IMPERIAL RALLY.

Tho thrill which has penetrated to the remote extremities of the Empire in consequence of Mr Asquith’s disclosures is a sufficient answer to the charge that Unionists at home are guilty of creating an artificial panic. Mr Balfour’s opponents credit him sometimes with the most recondite and fantastic powers of political influence, but the wildest imagination cannot picture him pulling wires that will produce the offer of a Dreadnought from New Zealand or set all Australia and Canada throbbing with anxiety for the Nav-y. New Zealand’s munificence is an answer, furthermore, to that wretched class of publicists who have derided the Imperialism of our colonies as a flimsy disguise for the extortion of advantages from the® Mother Country for which they had no thought of making a substantial return. There are members of tbe House of Commons who could afford to feel black shame as they listened to the reading of the telegrams which offered and accepted Now Zealand’s splendid and generous gift. It is an event which ought to silence the last of those who asperse the genuine spirit of Imperial unity, and accentuate the determination of all true Englishmen to let nothing come between them and the Empire’s common welfare and security.—“ Pall Mall Gazette.”