The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-12

this result is gradually ripening, our republic
will be concurrently rising to height of
power which will establish it insensibly and
unchallenged in position of virtual and uu-
assailsble political supremacy among the Eng
lish communities. Out of these elements
new political and international combinations
will doubtless arise, which cannot be exactly
stated beforehand. But shrewd thinkers will
have difficulty in concluding that they will
amount to most important revolution in the
general affairs of mankind
Those who are aware of the tendencies
which have been setting in during these last
three years in the Australias and New Zea-
land, in consequence of the late colonial
policy of England, cannot but regard the
opening of this new American route as a
most extraordinary instance of the way in
which moral and physical facts combine to
direct the course of human events England,
under the Gladstone Bright Granville ad-
mln1stration, has been giving unequivocal
signs, fully expected by those who know what
these three statesmen think about such
matters, of being no longer willing or able
to retain the responsibility of defending her
colonial settlements. Unmistakable indiea-
tions have been given by the mother
country that her colonies must consider
themselves ripe for independence before
long. The truth, however, is that
the Australian colonies and New Zealand are
not now, and are never likely to be, strong
enough to hold an effective independent posi-
ton in the world where vast empires exist.
and are growing to be vaster still with every
decade. The eyes of Australians and New
Zealanders have, therefore, for some time
past been turning to this Republic as their
probably destined protector in the future.
In fact, at private meeting held not a year
since of all the influential and wealthy Aus
tralasiaps resident in I,ondon 70 consider the
relations between their settlements and the
mother country, it was unanimously deter
mined that, failing the establishment of
better understanding and relations between
the colonies and the metropolis, it might be
necessary, and that soon, to seek the protec-
tion of the American Republic.
In the interval that has since elapsed, an
abortive attempt in England has been made
to raise the question of drawing close the ties
between England and her colonies by the
establishment of some sort of imperial coun-
Gil in London, in which the whole Empire
should be represented. But this attempt
has come to nothing. Nobody has been
found who could put into definite shape
such new imperial constitution. And it is
safe to say that the theory of organizing into
one political whole the mother country and
the colonies has been proved to be a mere
barren theory and nothing else. Immedi-
diately upon the proved failure of this theory
comes the establishment of the new American
route between England and the Pacific settle
ments, pointing the moral of that failure, and
fortifying the minds of those political
pioneers who are beginning to see in this
Republic the true key to solve the problem.
What, in the course of the next century, is to
be the relation of sovereignty between the
different countries where the English tongue
holds sway?