NOTICED AT HOME.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 412, 22 January 1909, Page 5

NOTICED AT HOME.

"YOUNG AUSTRALIANS." THE COLONIES' BELATED DISCOVERY. . FREE ADVERTISEMENT, (m TELtd'nAPit—rnEss AssociATioff-eorriiiGnT.) London, January 20. Tho "Pall Mall Gazette" characterises the Young Australia National Party as extraordinarily and pronouncedly anti-Imperial. Tho "Gazetto" states that tho manifesto should give English Imperialists a shrowd hint to probe.ft little deeper below the surfaco of the platitudes of Imperial rhotorifl. ' A REMARKABLE MANIFESTO. (Rec. January Si 2, 0,30 a,m.) ' Sydney, January 21. Tho Young Australia Party's manifesto mentioned by the "Pall Mall Gazette" evidently escaped' attontkm in Australia, although it is understood that the party has representatives in' all the States and in New Zealand. > - Its platform 'proposes to secure tho country from the possibility of successful invasion, after which it deale with the mire difficult arid intricate task of ovolvihg a system of national government undor ./aioh poverty will bo minimised and disease extirpated, and "the commonwealth of all guarded against' the rapacity of a, few." Jta platform implies that thore shall bo no right of voto on Commonwealth legislation by fa.) Crown or-the High Court, that thero shall be a white Australia, and that party government shall' be '.abolished. The programme includes Australia's right to make treaties with' Foreign Powers, and to appoint comiulSj a compulsory citizens' defence foroe,-nn Australian Navy built and manned ond absolutely controlled by Australians, the abolition of the State Governments and Parliaments and Constitutions, adequate wages for all, tho abolition of capital" punishment, a'national'bank, Commonwealth coinage, and the abolition of all titles. Only Australians shall own lands arid mines; ' ' '