txicy m i83S. Odiers have said- it before me. We have a~ statesraaa
here in Scodand whose mstiiK^ are always r^<:ht^ but
whose actions unfortunately oiten lag b^iind fak in^sncts. What did
he say? Many years b^re I carae into oi&x, in iSSS^ Lord Ro^^
bacy was speaking at Leeds, and he said tfab — ^^The peo|de of dns
country wiU, in a not too distant time, have to mske up tiidr m:n^
what footing they i^h their colmiies to occupy with respect to thato,
or whether th^ desire didr colonies to leave dient altog^ter. It ts,
as I believ^ absolutety impossible for you to maintain in the loog run
your present loose and indefinable rdatiosts andpresanre these colonies
pedcts of the £m{Hre. I do not see that you can obtain the great boon
(^ a peaceful Empire, oicircling the g^obe with a bond of commatcisl
unity and peace^ without some saotiSce on your part."

Well, we have to cor>sidar of course what is ttie

No sacrifice sacrifice which we are called upon to make. No^ first

iKcsessaiy. let me say that if there be a sainfic^ if that can be
shown, I will go confidaatly to my countryo^ao. I will
tell them what it is, and I will ask them to make it. ' Now-a-day$li.:
gr^ut deal too much attaauon is paid to what is caUed the saotifice, ImH
no attention is g^ven to what is the gain. But although I would not
hesitate to ask yoa for a sacrifice if a sacrifice were n^ded to keep.,
together the Einpire, to which I attack so much importance, I do not
beli«ve that thoe will be any sacrifice at alL This is an aziangi^nent



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between friends. This is a negotiation between kinsmen. Can you
not conceive the possibility that both sides may gain and neither lose?
Twelve years ago another great man, Mr. Cecil
Mr. Rhodes's Rhodes, with one of those flashes of insight and genius
solution. which made him greater than ordinary mtn, took advan-
tage of his position as Prime Minister of Cape Colony
to write letters, which have recently been published, to the then Prime
Minister of Canada and the Prime Minister of New South Wales. 