AN AMERICAN ON AUSTRALIA.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 44, 12 January 1912, Page 7

AN AMERICAN ON AUSTRALIA.

An American paper thus refers to Australia: 'T!io Australian has a dream. His country is almost the same si/.e as Europe or the United States or Canada. In his vision ho sees it as another and a better Europe, with 1.50,000.000 or 'J00.000,000 inhabitants." says a writer in the 'National I'eview."

"It is to ho a Europe without tho various flags, the various languages, and the various races; without the traditions of civil and religious funds: without the tangle of ill-built mediaeval cities. There is to be no semi-Tartar in the East, nor 'unspeakable Turk' in the South-east.

"Australia is to be another Canada without tho inhospitable climate and the mixed population of that country : another United States without the negro population ; another South America without its warring political I interests and its mixi-d races. Australia is the only continent which the Anglo-Saxon posscs.sos, tho only continent which any one nation |>os.si\sse.s.

"It is the only continent which has ever had one race, one language and one government. The Australians are trying to keeo it so."