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PREFACE.

IT seems to me that this little book is
well worth the consideration of fair-minded
enquirers at this time; particularly of those
who are lured by the hope of a closer connection
 between the different parts of the
Empire as a probable or possible result of
the fiscal proposals now before the country.
The authors are two young men, sincere
and convinced Imperialists, who went to
Canada last autumn with the earnest desire
to ascertain the truth for themselves and on
the spot.
They have here laid before the public the
result of their enquiries; which will tend to
strengthen the position of those who see
in the new fiscal policy not a probable
bond but a possible dissolvent of Empire.
That is the anxiety that lies deep in the
minds of many of the opponents of that
policy, who believe that the British Empire
can only be surely maintained and developed
on the fundamental principle of allowing

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