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Imperatif_ on every federal delegate not to vote a penny for any war, or
preparation for war, that might arise from the direct or indirect
interests of any colony but his own. I have said little of the
difficulties arising from the vast geographic distances that separate
these great outlying communities from one another, and from the mother
country. But those difficulties exist, and they are in one sense at the
root of others more important than themselves. 'Countries separated by
half the globe,' says Mill in his excellent chapter on the government of
dependencies by a free state, 'do not present the natural conditions for
being members of one federation. If they had sufficiently the same
interests, they have not, and never can have, a sufficient habit of
taking counsel together. They are not part of the same public; they do
not discuss and deliberate in the same arena, but apart, and have only a
most imperfect knowledge of what passes in the minds of one another.
They neither know each other's objects nor have confidence in each
other's principles of conduct. Let any Englishman ask himself how he
should like his destinies to depend on an assembly of which one-third
was British-American and another third South African and Australian. Yet
to this it must come, if there were anything like fair or equal
representation; and would not every one feel that the representatives of
Canada and Australia, even in matters of an imperial character, could
not know or feel any sufficient concern for the interests, opinions, or
wishes of English, Irish, or Scotch?'[6] Tariffs, as we have seen, are
one question, and the treatment of native races is another, where this
want of sympathy and agreement between Englishmen at home and Englishmen
in the most important colonies is open and flagrant. [6] J. S. Mill _On
Representative Government_, pp. 317, 318. The actual circumstances of
federal unions justify Mill's remark on the impossibility of meeting the