MIGRATION.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 May 1924, Page 1

MIGRATION.

WIIITH AUSTRALIA. s By T. li. Sedgwick in a Sydney Paper). Land hv it*clf cannot carry a colour or he regarded a* a nation. Only a resilient population can do that, and Australia lias only got one-twentieth the density of the world. Australia with less than two persons to the square mile is neither white nor colcured. Iml is empty, although proved to he one of tin* most richly-endowed coiiiil vies of the world. The White Australia policy has never been endorsed nor guaranteed by the British or by any other nation. No hoaltliv persons are excluded from the densely-peopled old country. Whether they lie white, brown, yellow, or black, and the British cannot he expected to help keep them away from our emptv Australia. The Labour noliey is even divided on the subject. The Communist section favours the open-dnor-to-nll-rncoj-noliey, which is the platform of the International Socialist Workers’ Union.

Whenever any nation objects to the exclusion policy adopted towards its people by Australia a cause for war

can always be easily found. The deaths of two German missionaries in China led to the. cession of Kiao Chow, and the murder of two persotis in Scrvia was the ostensible cause of the Great AVar.

Great nations prefer to see their surplus populations migrating to

territories of their own, rather than to enrich other peoples by their production arid energies. Some nations were not sufficiently advanced to become vocal in the world’s councils when the partition of Hie black man’s heritage took place. •I hey would he glad now to have an excuse for transferring some underdeveloped or unsettled portions to their owii flags.

Only adequate population can justify and can insist on the exclusion of races not capable of fusing with the settled inhabitants of any couulrv.