But there seems to be a party that would go further -- have Australasia cut loose from the British Empire and set up housekeeping on her own hook.

It seems an unwise idea.

They point to the United States, but it seems to me that the cases lack a good deal of being alike.

Australasia governs herself wholly--there is no interference; and her commerce and manufactures are not oppressed in any way.

If our case had been the same we should not have gone out when we did.
January 13.