Excerpt from The Imperial Organization of Trade The present volume is a contribution towards the knowledge of one branch only of Imperial Organization, that of trade. It is an instalment of a larger work on Imperial Organization, and is published at the present time with a view to advancing the closer union of the Empire in trade matters at the next meeting of the Imperial Conference, which takes place in 1911. That meeting will occur in the midst of the festivities of the Coronation, and it behoves any one who wishes to obtain even the momentary attention of British statesmen at home or beyond the seas, to press such questions forward before those festivities begin, and above all while the spirit of compromise is still in the air. The writer is no partisan on the bitterly controversial questions here discussed. In fact, though a keen Conservative, he has for this reason felt obliged to refuse in recent years desirable invitations to stand for Parliament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.