A GERMAN PROFESSOR'S DREAM

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 109, 25 January 1918, Page 8

A GERMAN PROFESSOR'S DREAM

SLAVE DAYS FOK AUSTRALIA. A correspondent forwards to the "Sydney Jlorning Herald" an extract from a newspaper in which professor Jacob Burckhardt, who attended the last Science Congress in Australia, foreshadows Australia's future under German rulo. Professor lhirckhardb received the warmest hospitality during his stay in 'this country, and the newspaper shows that it was not until he returned to Germany that he made ho following astounding comments: — "When we come to Auuiralia we do not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation. They have proved themselves to be the most arrant cowards. The young males are spineless jellyfish. The only peoplo they bully are their aged parents, to whom thoy should be a blessing in ilioir old age, but aie a curse, ft would have been better for the world to-day had they been strangled at,birth. They only speak the truth by accident, or only when a lie will not serve their purpose. They have no respect for the aged. The only time they go to church is when divine service is ended, and then for tho purpose of waylaying the young maidens, who, for outward appearances and respectability, attend the evening devotions. Their only ambition is to work in a dry goods store, an office or emporium. They hiivo not any desire to exercise their intellect. We will put them in gangs on tho road and making fortifications, locking them in stockades at night. Only the German conquerors wiU be permitted to the drama, sports, and other amusements. After a time we will allow the womenfolk freedom, but they will not be permitted to speak even to their Australian boys— , our slaves. They will soon forget them and embrace us, as witness the number of girls, to say nothing of married women, who • are our avowed friends. All the same, they prove very uninteresting companions, owing to lack or intellectuality, but will soon becomo at least docile in our hands. '1 hoy are not on a much higher plane than the black or brown savage, save their skin is white, when the paint and powder admit of a glimpse. 'We are inclined to forgive them because they admire out German Youth, especially those witli plenty of coin. We look forward with interest to "our twentieth century Arabian Nights in Austral land, llio factory girls and sewing girls are even worse. They are utterly impossible creatures, the domestic servants are a lazy, insolent, brainless lot, with only one thought-that is, to get away from toil and promenade tho streets in what they appear to consider smart frocks, often costing as much, if not more, than their mistress's costumes, leaning on the arm of pimple-faced boys or old rakes. Our womenfolk will straighten them up. If they rebel wo wi 1 put them on tho roads or in the holds. _