YOUNG AUSTRALIA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9352, 22 January 1909, Page 5

YOUNG AUSTRALIA.

A FOOLISH MANIFESTO,

United'Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Sydney, January 21.

The Young Australia Party’s manifesto, mentioned in the Pall Mall Gazette and referred to in a cablegram yesterday, evidently escaped the attention of Australia, although it is understood that the Party has representatives in all the States and New Zealand. Its platforms proposes to secure the country from the possibility of sucessful invasion., after which it deals with the more difficult and intricate uask of evolving a system of national government under which poverty shall be minimised, disease extirpated, and the common weal of all guarded against the rapacity of a few. Its platform implies that there shall be no right of veto of Commonwealth legislation by the Crown or High Court. There shall he a white Australia, party government shall be abolished, there shall be the right to make treaties with foreign Powers, and to appoint Consuls, a compulsory citizens force, |an Australian navy built, manned, and absolutely controlled by Australians, the abolition of State Governments, Parliaments, and Constitutions, adequate wages for all, abolition of capital punishment, a national bank, Commonwealth coinage, only Australians to own and [mines, and the abolition of all titles.