does it effect? It does nothing to check that tendency--that
perhaps irresistible tendency--of British enterprise to carry your
commerce, and to carry the range and area of your settlement beyond the
limits of your sovereignty.... There the thing is, and you cannot
repress it. Wherever your subjects go, if they are in pursuit of objects
not unlawful, you must afford them all the protection which your power
enables you to give." "There the thing is." (But many Liberals have
lacked the imagination to see it.) And being there, it affords a great
opportunity; for "to this great Empire is committed (continued Mr.
Gladstone) a trust and a function given from Providence as special and
as remarkable as ever was entrusted to any portion of the family of
man." But not all Liberals share Mr. Gladstone's faith. They thus cut
themselves off from one of the chief tendencies and some of the noblest
ideals of the time. Liberalism must broaden its outlook, and seek to
promote "the large and efficient development of the British Commonwealth
on liberal lines, both within and outside these islands."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 19: Blue Book, C. p. 28, 2673.]

[Footnote 20: Blue Book, C. 2454, p. 57.]

[Footnote 21: Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, by J.
Martineau.]

[Footnote 22: Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere, by J.
Martineau.]

[Footnote 23: The italics are my own.]

[Footnote 24: There are between sixty and seventy resolutions and
addresses recorded in the Blue-book, all passed unanimously except in
one case, at Stellenbosch where a minority opposed the resolution. The
spokesman of the minority, however, based his opposition not on Frere's
general policy, still less on his character, but as a protest against an
Excise Act, which was one of Mr. Spring's measures.]

[Footnote 25: Life and Correspondence of Sir Bartle Frere.]

[Footnote 26: Blue Book, C. 2740, p. 46.]

[Footnote 27: Blue Book, C. 2740, p. 63.]

[Footnote 28: Life and Correspondence of the Right Hon. Sir Bartle
Frere, by Martineau.]

[Footnote 29: In the sense in which the great Lord Chatham used the
words.]

VII.

TRANSVAAL POLICY SINCE 1884. DELIMITATION OF BOUNDARY AGREED TO AND
NOT OBSERVED. THE CHIEF MONTSIOA. HIS COUNTRY PLACED UNDER BRITISH
PROTECTION. TRANSVAAL LAW. THE GRONDWET OR CONSTITUTION. THE HIGH
COURTS OF JUSTICE SUBSERVIENT TO THE VOLKSRAAD OR PARLIAMENT.
ARTICLE 9 OF THE GRONDWET REFERR