Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-07-31
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange |fol. XIII, No. 10—13th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, July 31,1915 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year Prom Precedent to Precedent THERE are few thoughtful men who will not adopt tho sentiment so simply and eloquently expressed by Sir Robert Borden, thnl the high honor conferred upon him by the City of London wns "not so much a personal tribute ns a compliment to the grent Dominion which 1 hnve the honor to represent in this grent testing time of our manhood." This is not to depreciate the noble personality nnd the invaluable services rendered in the Empire's Terisis by the Premier of Canada. It. is to recognize the true inwardness of he silent but irrosistable movement which is currying nil the .Dominions of the Empire nearer to the gonl of Imperial Federation. The broadening of tbe British constitution, in spite of the poetic dictum, of England's greatest Laureate is not so much the result of "shaping some august decree" ns of a slow but, persistent march from "Precedent to precedent." This idea hns never been more aptly or more eloquently expressed than in the admirable reply of Sir Robert Borden in the Guildhall. He struck the keynote not only of the ceremony, but of the sentiment which the present grent wnr has done so much to crystnlize when he said thnt the connecting link between the Overseas Dominion and the Motherland wns "Love of liberty and insistence upon the rights of the people, memorable everywhere in these Islands, and especially distinguishing the citizens of London. Nor do I forget thnt the snnie qualities characterized the people id' the neighboring country, within the quiet of whose churchyard sleep those whoso blood runs iu my veins." With ex- quisite skill Sir Robert sketched the growth of the British nation hroiigh those periods when autocratic government was a necessity. Jiu one quick sentence lie told how the growing aspirations of a free- Idoiu lov…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373922
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text