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527.
ran counter to the lniocez fairo attitudes of Gladmtoninn
Liberale. But social reform at homo was tied up with
the maintenance of a powerful Empire abroad; largo
efficient units were vastly preferable to small weak
states; small nations like the Transvaal had no right
to determine their own overnnent.
(1)
Collectivinn
must also apply to the Empire and the luicGoz faire
non-interventionist ideas should be dropped. Social roforn
would eus; ure "the rearing of an Imperial race. "
The Fobiana preferred the Liberal Irapcriulieto to the
Corrncrvatives %-
(2)
losobery and Haldane were both friends
of the Vvebbs. Beatrice Webb wrote of the pro-war
Liberals,
- "These men have helped us with our
undertakings, they have been appreciative of our ideas,
and socially pleasant to us. They have no prejudice
against our views of social roforn; whilst their
general attitude towards the Empire an a powerful and
pelf-conscioun force $ is one with which wo are in
agreement.
"
{3i
Frºhinnism and the EnDirrP, wrwrr vnifonto by
. ýwwr r. r wr ýwr rr. ýwýwrýr
ciRt , edited by d, U. Shaw1 London 19OO
2) Mjneteenth Contury, Septciber 1901 s Sidney ;; ebb, "Lord
konebery o escape from Uaundaditch" p. 386,
(3) Our P rtn^rnhi1 p. 220.