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-

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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

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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1176 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [partV the Colonies as separate communities, so far as relates to their fiscal arrangements, on the ground that the Colonies are thus treated as foreign communities, when a claim is at the same time set up by the Colonies to treat the United Kingdom itself as a foreign community, by imposing differen- tial duties in favour of other parts of the Empire, as against British produce. But the meaning is, I apprehend, to be gathered from the succeeding paragraph, which affirms that foreign Governments ought not to be allowed to become parties to stipulations respecting the trade of one part of the Empire to another, whether by land or sea : and further light is thrown upon it by the observations in the New Zealand Memorandum, that the object of the treaty with the Zollverein seems to be to prevent the Colonies making reciprocal arrangements with the United Kingdom, that “if Great Britain were to confederate her Empire, it might, and probably would, be a condition that, throughout the Empire, there should be a free exchange of goods °, and that the effect of the Zollverein Treaty ‘is to make Great Britain hold the relation of a foreign country ’ to her Colonies. It seems, therefore, to follow that, in the opinion of some at least of the Australasian Governments, the ports of the United Kingdom should not, as at present, be open to the produce of the whole world on equal terms, but that the produce of the Colonies should be specially favoured in British ports; or, in other words, that we should abandon the principles of free trade, and return to the old system of differential duties. The New Zealand Memorandum; indeed, suggests that the best arrangement would be a Customs union embracing the whole Empire, but it may, perhaps, be thought that if it has been found impossible for adjacent communities, such as those of Australia, to come to an agreement for a common system of Customs duties, it is scarcely worth while to consider the possibility of so vast a scheme as the combination of all parts of the British Empire, scattered over the whole globe, under such widely varying conditions of every kind, in one Customs union. But apart from the insuperable practical difficulties of such a scheme, it is sufficient to point out that its results, if it could be adopted, would certainly not be to promote the views of commercial policy set forth in the papers now under con- sideration. For, in such a Customs union, Great Britain, with her wealth and population, must, for an indefinite period, exercise a greatly preponderating influence, and it

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