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This view of Imperialism desired to preserve the existing
Umpire without expanding it; as Sir William Tiercourt said in 1D99,
"But what doom that Ioporialicn you boar coo much about o moan ?
It it neana pursuing a policy which is the wiocet and beat for
that great gnpiro to which we belong, of courco wo ore all
Inperialiote in that nonce di oTbere is another and exactly opposite
view of Imperial policy,, It icr, º: the acquisition of fresh
populations, the adoption of additional burdcno, w #"
{1)
"True"
Inporiclicm %me canvacoed in opposition to "false" Imperialism#
"True" Inperialiato were ".. blind neither to' the glories nor yet
to the rocponaibilitioo of the British Empire. " (2) But by this
they meant basically the Empire of calf Governing colonies which
had been a generally accepted fact an early an the 1870'., Little
Englandiom in the sense of wiching to break up the English -settled
dominions t did not exist in 1900. Liberal writers approved of the
old colonial Empire and diotinguiehad it from what was coriot. noo
called "new" Imperialism
« implying expansion for its own sake,,
reliance on force and dubious financial expedients epitomized by
the activition of Cecil fhodee.
(3)
(1) A. G. Gardiner, The vife of Bar Williar: Harcourt, London 19230
Vol 21 p. 496.
(2) Uirsrt, Murray and Hammonds Liberalinn a. nd Et tro. London 19A4*
prefaco.
(3) The heart of Empire, London 19010 essay on "Icporialiap" by
G. P. aooahi pjci. 311v 334,339.