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may certainly be regarded as a remarkable
sign of the times. In 1889, W. R. Cremer
made a similar motion in the House. He
proposed that a “parliamentary committee should
be chosen to examine and arrange foreign
matters, which were then to be laid before
Parliament.” This proposal fell through; but
progress was made, and Mr. Cremer still awaits
a suitable occasion for renewing it.
A characteristic expedient is pointed out by
the well-known Belgian professor of political
economy, de Molinari, in an article published
in the Times.
He shows, in the first place, how solidarity
among the civilized States of the world has
lately increased in a marvellous degree, for not
long ago the foreign trade of a civilized nation
and the capital invested in other States was of
very small importance. Each country
produced nearly all the requisites for its own
consumption, and employed its capital in its
own undertakings. In 1613, the whole of
England’s imports and exports amounted to
only five million pounds sterling. A hundred
years later, indeed, the united foreign trade
of the whole of Europe did not amount to
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