Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-19
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England's Trade With the Colonies.

E'ngland's Trade With the Colonies.
 London Times.
 The question of trade with the colonies IS necessarily one of the most important which In an empire like ours can en- gage the attention of the colonial. secre- tary of state, and the dispatch which MT. Chamberlain has just addressed to the governors of colonies upon the subject will tend to confirm the hopes aroused by the appointment to his position of a man of practical experience and proved commercial ability. In drafting it the colonial office has evidently been inspir- ed by the desire to give effect to the policy of development which has already been manifested in other ways To de- velop the resources of the colonies, even 1T their trade was to go Increasingly to foreign countries, would undoubtedly be good in so far as 1t would enable them to participate for their own advantage to a greater degree in the profits to be de- rived from our foreign trade But if, coincidently with the development of their resources, 1t should prove possible to secure in an increased degree for the United Kingdom the trade which must result from the development, the benefit will be two-fold to the empire. The profit at both ends will be in British hands: the encouragement to the colonial invest ment of British capital will be great: and the unification of material interests, can not fail to have an important influence on the political destinies of the race The dispatch Is addressed to the governors of the self-governing colonies as we'll as to the governors of the crown colonies in which the development of local re- sources depends more directly upon im- perial effort. The average consumer of these commodities may very justly con- slider that his concern is wholly with successful production and profitable re- turns in the shape of an unrestricted aYn nnrt Q nd inn nrt tVoG do md hn .frrl,k be inclined to resent anything which bore even the appearance of an attempt to in- terfere with his right to buy In the cheap est and sell In the dearest market which his industry can command.
 The self-governing communities espe- cially might object that. having devel-, oped their resources largely by independ-. ent effort, they cannot reasonably be ex- pected to care whether the external profit of their trade goes to the home or to for-i eign markets; that their concern Is with their own markets, and that any attempt to control it must be resisted. But MT. Chamberlain has been we'll advised. His dispatch emerges from the most rigid scrutiny pure of any fiscal or economic taint. He states himself simply to be impressed with the extreme importance, of securing as large share as possible of the mutual trade of the United King dom and the colonies for British produc- CTS and manufacturers. whether located in the colonies or the United Kingdom. The interests which he desires to promote are equally those of the colonies and the United Kingdom. and there is nothing to wound the susceptibilities of the most. sensitive democrat or the most convinced free trader in the Inquiry which he has set on foot. He has merely seized the great opportunity of his position to do on behalf of the home and colonial inter- ests committed to his care what the man. ager of an enterprising joint stock com pany would feel 1t necessary to do in the interest of his shareholders before at-, tempting to extend an industrial opera tion.
 It is a matter of common knowledge that the trade of the colonies with the United Kingdom is not increasing in pro- portion to the trade which the colonies are doing with foreign countries In the case of some of the most important coi-