The Australian Federation Movement.
. — .». AN ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING. (Per Press Association). Melbourne, This Day. Au enthusiastic meeting on the subject of Federation was held at the Town Hall last night, the Chief Justice presiding. Mr Keid, Premier of New South Wales, said it seemed to him ihat the vital defect in the efforts of the last few years in the direction of Federation was that it nevgr seemed to quite come home to the hearts of the masses. The first essential of a thoroughly successful federal movement was popular enthusiasm — if not obtained in that way it could only be obtained by popular panic. Let them take care they were not some day compelled to do in mad haste that which had better be done at leisure. Aa an observer of the proceedings of the S\ dner Convention he had been unfavorably struck at its close by what seemed ' feyerish anxiety. They must have a de- j finite, sound, and economical arrange : ment. He feared for the success of any new plan for placing the subject cm a sound basis unless the people specially selected the fratuers of its constitution. Mr Kingston, Premier of South Australia, also spoke
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 175, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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197The Australian Federation Movement. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 175, 24 January 1895, Page 2
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