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 resources and forces of British industry, and be connected with this department.

Let our commercial department be in constant and daily touch with the trade interests of the country, be accessible to every man, as in the United States and our colonies, and accessible to workingmen as well as to employers.

In fact we must always have before our mind's eye that there is a common national interest which is the resultant of the resultants of our individual, class and industrial interests. We shall infallibly find that that resultant is in favour of law and order and peace and goodwill in our relations with other nations, for what is true of the individual in private life and of the community in municipal life, can only be true of the nation in international life. The way by which that law and order and peace and amity can be obtained is by making friends with our neighbours and discussing our respective interests with them in that spirit of mutual understanding of each other's wants, which is the basis on which enduring friendship must always rest, whether the relations we are cultivating are local, national, colonial, or with foreign nations.