Now I am no novice in politics, and I am going to make a prophecy.

Years ago the two political parties were readjusted on the Irish question.

Every election which was fought was simply on these lines--it was upon the principle of Home Rule for Ireland, and the severance of that country from the United Kingdom, or the maintenance of the Union.

Good! Now, in more recent times, the South African war and the realization of what our Colonies could do for us has introduced a new factor.

Those who have believed in a doctrine of expansion have called themselves 'Imperialists,' and those who have favoured less wide-reaching ideals, and perhaps more attention to home matters, have been christened 'Little Englanders.' Many elections have been fought out on these lines, if not between two men absolutely at variance with one another on this question, still on the matter of degree.