Problems of Empire

by Thomas Allnutt Brassey

PROBLEMS
OF EMPIRE

PAPERS AND ADDRESSES
BY THE HON. T. A. BRASSEY

 

LONDON
ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS, 187 PICCADILLY, W
1904

CONTENTS

I. IMPERIAL FEDERATION.			PAGE
(a)	Imperial Government		3
	Speech at Epsom, 1892.
(b)	Great Britain as a Sea Power		20
	From the Nineteenth Century, July 1893.
(c)	Australia and Imperial Defence		37
	Extracts from an Address delivered before the Imperial Federation League of Victoria, at Melbourne, October 1896.
(d)	The Irish Question		49
	Extract from Address at Pokesdown, Bournemouth, November 8th, 1898.
(e)	Federal Government for the United Kingdom and the Empire		52
	From the Nineteenth Century, August 1901.
(f)	Steps to Imperial Federation		72
	A Paper read before, the Royal Colonial Institute, November 11th, 1902.
(g)	The Finance of Federal Government for the United Kingdom		96
	A Paper read before, the Royal Statistical Society, January 1903.
II. TARIFF REFORM.
(a)	Is Free Trade the Right Policy for this Country to-day (1898)?		127
(b)	Sugar Bounties and the West Indies		131
	Extract from a Speech at Christchurch, November 1898.
(c)	Preferential Tariffs		134
	A Letter to the Times, June 5th, 1903
(d)	Tariff Reform and the Cotton Industry		143
	A Letter to the Manchester Guardian, July 25th, 1903.
(e)	Tariff Reform and Agriculture		147
	Speech at Catsfield, July 28th, 1903.
(f)	Canada		159
	The Montreal Congress, August 1903.
	The Canadian Manufacturers' Association, September 1903 (page 162).
(g)	Canada and the Preferential Tariff		168
	Speech at Rye, October 10th, 1903.
(h)	The Need for Tariff Reform		180
	Speech at Tunbridge Wells Farmers' Club, January 15th, 1904.
III. MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS.
(a)	Studies in Australia in 1896		197
	Paper read at the Royal Colonial Institute, February 1897.
(b)	The Egyptian Question		233
	Speech at Boscombe, November 1898.
(c)	The Situation in South Africa		243
	Speech at Bournemouth, October 1899.