Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 57 concern was to remain in force, subject to the right of either Colony to terminate it upon notice given, and some steps were taken to place under independent boards in both Colonies the affairs of the land-settlers, who had taken up land on the faith of Government promises of assistance, and whose interests were, it was thought, possibly liable to too Strict treatment from a responsible government—not an impossibility, in view of the fact that the settlement policy had been inaugurated in part as a means of bringing in British settlers to redress the balance of nationalities in both Colonies. Subject, however, to that exception, which was merely to be temporary, for the clauses enjoining it were to expire in five years, the Imperial Government con- ceded full self-government to republics which but a few years before had been engaged in a prolonged and dangerous War with the metropolis of the Empire. The contrast was Strengthened by the fact that the first elections in the Transvaal returned to power the ex-leader of the Boer forces, General Botha, and by a stroke of good fortune he Was able to be present at the Colonial Conference of 1907 and to advise His Majesty's Government upon the questions affecting the defence of the Colony of which he was Premier. The Transvaal was fated to have but a short separate existence as a Colony of the Empire, but the conduct of its government was marked by singular ability, and the con- fidence reposed in the value of responsible institutions by the Imperial Government in 1906 was proved to be fully justified. In fact, no more signal example of the benefits of the system have ever been seen. In the Orange River Colony much the same results followed from the concession of responsible government until 1909, when the efforts of the Minister of Education, an enthusiastic believer in bilingua] education, resulted in some difficulties with the English officers of the education department, culminating in the dismissal of three inspectors? and ultimately the resigna- tion of the very able Director of Education. But despite this regrettable incident, in which it would be unfair to see * Cf. House of Commons Debates, July 27, 1909.

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