General Attitude and Aim of Liberalism. SOME PHASES OF POLITICAL DISCUSSION. "The Basis of the Empire is Freedom; It is cemented by Freedom; It will last as long as the Freedom of its people endures"--Victoria Colonist. "Imperialism in essence eventually means the imposition of external government without responsibility to the governed"--Ottawa Citizen. "Sir Wilfrid Laurier is easily the first statesman of Greater Britain"--London, England Daily News, September 14th, 1904. "My distinguished successor, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in the Prime Ministership of Canada, has during these past few memorable days asserted with a persuasiveness all his own that the British Empire rests upon foundations firmer than the rock and as endurable as the ages."--Sir Charles Tupper in the Nineteenth Century, • May, 1907. "Sir Wilfrid Laurier the greatest and most venerable figure in Dominion Statesmanship."--Manchester Guardian, England, March 20th, 1917. This Pamplet is issued June, 1917.