An English View of Australia.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 16 July 1910, Page 3

An English View of Australia.

A London pa pi r, in a leading article on the colonies, refers to Australia in the following terms:—

"Australia, as the most remote portion of liritish territory, usually receives the le-ast of our attention. It approximates in size to tlu v extendcl all Ivirope. It has about live millions of ptaple where there i.s room for a hundred millions; and we may note with satisfaction that at't'iT ueivily 20 years of comparatively (|iiiet progress, .since tlu v bank smashes iu the last dreadt' of the liltli cnilury, the island continent has resumed growth. A.s a result of the late elections, the Labour Parly is in power, but we must not be frightened of that fact. T!.e Labour Party there can teach Home piicelefis Ic.-son.s .to mm- own. It i.s not only Protectionist, even to excess. It is genuinely and intensely patriotic, and it interprets oa.t----noti-'-m a sa mutter not of sentiment, but of service. It holds that every I'till-L'rnwn citizen ought to be able. as well as willing, to defend iu the hour of danger the country on which his vote helps to decide the destinies , in .time of peace. Even tho old restrictive policy with regard to emigration Iw.s given way to more , enlightene:! views. Xo policy on that fan b" tea .<■:!.roug and thorough if the highest interests of the whole Australian - community are to be served. All lands .still in process of development require every kind cl capital t:> promote their advance; but imnm.n-ation is a living ('a.pital in itself. an:l every othtr form of inve.vtnuMii accompanies it. All nortions of the ComiiKiiiwealth show t\ progress in prosperity which makes its people, as a whole, so long as the shores c:'ji be; defended. Every form of cultivation increases its yield veil' by year. It Ins oftem been sai'l thiit I! , :' United States produced within itself enough of every single comnvo'litv it re(|iiii - ed except tin and wool. R:>th these Australia as iu siiper'.'biuHknt quantity. Hei frriZL'ii meats guara-nter> to this country a wide area of simply which helps to protect the interests of the poor in these islands against the gigantic o mirations of Amonican trusts. Wheat and dairy produce, frui.t aiwl wine, I'uniiish freight oven ni'ore ■ > rocious to the life, of the older world than M;.? golden nrgo.sies still loaded from the mines. And Xew Zea.land upon a smaller scale shows a nro™ sre.ss more intense in proportion of its area. ,.