ABSTRACT
The one great Colonial War of the eighteenth century had been a most disastrous civil war; and in the previous wars, when British and American troops had fought side by side, narrow-minded arrogance and stupid red tape, on the one hand, and Provincial particularism and bumptious indiscipline, on the other, had brought about that they always left mutual relations worse than they had found them. The British Government, realizing the seriousness of the situation, declared the suspension of the Newfoundland measure. The Newfoundland Government protested that this was a direct interference with the powers of self-government granted to the colony; but the home authorities convincingly could reply that the question was one "of international interest," in which the imperial Government had every right to intervene. The path of safety lay in the direction of a tariff, the deliberate work of British South Africa as a whole, ensuring permanent free trade within the borders of British South Africa.
