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my Honourable friend believe 'if it were not for the gigantic
foreign trade that has boon created by this policy of expansion,
that we could subsist in this country in any kind of way? "
He compared the prospects of Ugandan trade with those of Cruuia
fifty years previously. If Britain had not followed an
expansionist policy, - ".. the greater part of the continent of
Africa would have been occupied by our commercial rivals who
would have proceeded an the first act of their policy to close
this groat potential markät to British trade. " (2) Africa
appeared to be exactly the gigantic now market desired by British
industry. James Button urged the Manchester Chamber of
Commerce on the Congo, " "It was to the extension of our trade
in such underdeveloped markets* that Manchester nuat look for
some relief from the present unsatisfactory state of trade. " ýý
To Carlyle "Africa".. coona to offer a now and wide field for
consumption. '" (4) An early example of thin conviction wan given
in a paper on "Central Africa an a market for British trade"
presented to the 1879 Trades Union Congress by a Mr. James Bradshaw
a Manchester merchant. H6 asserted that ".. the groat continent
(1) cuotod in J Chnmber1ain rorelen and Colonial a ooaben
London 189?, p. 11 .
(2) Ibid, p. 1k4.
(3) J. E. Carlyle, 01 cite pß11"
(4) Chamber of Commerce Journnl, 10th October 1884.