'PUT UP THE SHUTTERS.'

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1679, 20 February 1913, Page 5

'PUT UP THE SHUTTERS.'

f— IF FISHER GOVERNMENT GOES BACK. AUSTRALIAN POLITICIAN ON "LABOUR." ' FEDERALISM CONDEMNED. Tho Hon. A. Barlow, a member of the Queensland Upper House, who for many years has been prominent in Australian' holiday 18 PreSCnt Wcllin B tou °n '? M out and out opponent i.r j ! sm 111 Austi'alia. last nlfflft "li" '',1 Sald iu a !' interview,, last night, has done us n lot of harm Peonln nrA™? •'Pi c °nfidcnce. S;°, ar ? afraid to invest raonej.. The rmH i ', ? lf the 1-isher Government goes back to power: it will bo time to put thev / Vnd , the referendum they are proposing to submit to tho people T fhfnl "fv 1 " 6 daueor ? us than themselves. Lii- thlB ,Prospects are fair for the ™ rQ J# 10 *® 1 .P at ty. In Queensland they n ™® i i S > , vcar produced n „!?>, considerable awakening among tho apathetic portion of the public. At the Queensland elections following the strikes tlio_liiberal Government got a majority of 22 in . a House of 70 numbers. I think l! i 1. 0 - « xo of Labour will bathe chief thing influencing the. result of the coming elections, and, 1 think they will inlluenoe them m favour of Liberalism. It .be deplorable if. they don't." '. '• .!■ Barlow holds that Labour is running a big iuachine which' it does. 1 not know how to Qontrol and that naturally tho man with capital will not board tho machine. •, Ho puts it this way: "If I ™nt-down to your station hero to go to Auckland, and I.saw a chimpanzee driving the engine, a gorilla doins tho firinir, and a blue-tailed monkey in, tho guard's van, I would off that train and conic back to this hotel." Averting to the subject of Federalism, J* said that it was -in* many ways a very Sit h s' fo i country.For... his otato (Queensland) it was particularly bad." ■ Queensland had'only ton representatives in tho_ Federal Parliament,, and Now South, Wales and Victoria could 6,wamp theui. -■ ■ • r < • I. could not ha]p thinking .as I was coming across that that strip of ocean, was a God-send to New Zealand. It.is a silver streak. If Now Zealand had been °°yP : , of IlUD<l red miles from Australia tlieyd have had you in tho Federation. If anyone ever talks I'odcriiUon to'you, don t you listen to them. Australia is as -Uigas France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and a portion of European Russia, and they are goin? to control the whole of it from -.Yass Cantarra, VP tho Carpathian ' Mountains, lho thing is ridiculous, ppeposterous, in--1 sane. , | ■