IRON TOMB RAILS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVI, Issue 43079, 9 April 1907, Page 4

IRON TOMB RAILS.

In his work on “The Labour Movement m 'Australia,” !D!r. Victor SL Clark, an American sociologist, presents his views on the attitude of thie people of the Commonwealth! towards the Motherland and the Empire. The doctor, as a result of his personal observation in the various Australian I States, has dome to the conclusion that the working men: of Australasia, | while not hostile to Great Britain, probably attach less weight to the Imperial tie than do the Conservatives, or upper classes'. He adds, however, that any alienation of sympathy that may exist is important only upon the sentimental basis. The real ties between the Motherland and the colonies are cemented too strongly by business and traditional ties to be easily broken. “The relation of the Empire to the Aiustralasian democracies,” writes Dr. Clark, “is too sagaciously arranged to be materially affeoted by a divergence of local politics.” The American writer is of opinion that the <r White Australia” cry is against oommonsense. He does l not consider it extraordinary that a white race should desire to kefep its land clear of the Asiatic element, but he holds the opinion that the Commonwealth is simply not in a position to enforce any regulation in this direction, and should not, therefore, adopt an uncompromising attitude. “Australia,” he adds, “is, moreover, following, a policy that ignores to some extent natural and economic laws. The Government would redeem a virgin and tro-

pi'oaJ wilderness bv Saxon labor, and domicile within thle torrid zone a race of workers whose physiological adjustments from demote antiquity have fitted them for colder climates.” Dr. Clark thinks that an attempt to exclude the Chinese and Japanese from the Australasian colonies must, in the long run, became an Imperial question, to be considered and decided from the Imperial standpoint, and he evidently holds the opinion that when , Imperial':'xßsu.es are at stake, colonial,, I susoeptihiMk will hare .to- go to the*'