Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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CHAP. 111] THE CONFERENCE OF 1911 1521 admit, and he recognized the force both of the racial and the economic objections. The racial feeling as such was partly mental and partly physiological : its existence could not be denied if it could not be explained. But he emphasized the fact that in most respects the less a white man has indi- vidually to be proud of, the prouder he is apt to be of his whiteness, and the more he considers himself entitled to look down upon people of a coloured race. He reminded his audience of the great traditions of India, and of the intellectual and religious greatness of the Indian people, and he laid stress on the loyalty of India. What was needed was a more sympathetic understanding ; he would try to explain to India the position of the Dominions, and he asked the Dominions to consider the position of India. The unsatis- factory treatment of Indians in the Dominions was a constant source of difficulty, all the more formidable as self-govern- ment in India proceeded. Lord Crewe therefore asked that, while restricting immigra- tion, the entrance of non-immigrant Indians should be facilitated and freed of difficulties, and that when Indians were lawfully domiciled (as in one Dominion for over two hundred years) all care should be taken to respect their caste feelings, as, for example, in connexion with prison treatment. A really united Empire could not exist so long as India and the Dominions were at variance, and the Mother Country was involved in the disputes. Sir J. Ward ! at once expressed his sympathy with India, but defended his desire to stop the competition of Lascar crews on vessels trading between Australia and New Zealand on economic and social grounds. The competition of such crews was ruining the lines which employed well-paid white labour, and those lines could not continue unless the laws regulating the payment of labour were repealed or they were allowed to evade those laws by registration elsewhere ; neither of these alternatives was possible, and the Govern- ment of New Zealand must endeavour to save the, white crews. His Shipping Bill? indeed penalized by a 25 per cent. tax * Cd. 5745, pp. 399 seq. * Above, pp. 1211-5.

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