Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1901. AUSTRALIA HUMITLIATED.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 18 December 1901, Page 2

Greymouth Evening Star. AND BRUNNERTON ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1901. AUSTRALIA HUMITLIATED.

Tuavk goodness we have a Seddon and not a Barton at the b«ad o t affairs, will be the expression o i uiauy when they read the decision ol Wla Hadarnl Government not to send further taoops to South Africa. In Australia the people will bewail their sad lot la not possessing a Seddon, initsad of the backbonelesa Barton, who, apparently, is but a puppet jumping as fcha strings are pulled. Throughout Australia Uae action of How Uealand U bppbudod, and a genanl hope expMMoithai Australia will follov the leod. &taha Pramiers hava spoke* out ia a spirited manner o» tha subject; fea pross end peopla are almost unanimous upon the subject of sending more men to South Africa, yet the misplaced Premier of Australia declares that his Government do not purpose doing anything more ! “ And this is Australia’s boasted loyalty 1” will be heard singing throughout Europe. Yet never was there a grosser libel on th» people of Australia. United Australia is just as patriotic as she was prior to the union of the States, but it unfortunately she has for a brief period at her head a weakkueed Premier, who puts patriotism on one side at the behest of some of his

follower?, vho probably have pro-Boer tendencies. shall be iinrprlsed, indeed, if the people li* quietly under the imputctioa and humiliation put upon thsaa by Mr Barton, and fully expect t* taa such agitatio* and outspoken indignation expressed as will cause tbs Federal Cabinet to alter its decision. Certain it is that not one member si the Barton administration would dare resign and test the views of bis constituents upon this particular point. If Mr Barton represents 'the views of the Australian people, then the sneers of the German press are, so far as Australia is con- , ceruod, quite true and justifiable.