AN AUSTRALASIAN OBLIGATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8134, 14 June 1906, Page 2

AN AUSTRALASIAN OBLIGATION.

HOW MAY THE DEBT BE DISCHARGED P

vu JTRALASIAN recognition )P THE DEAD STATESMAN.

Received 14,1.6 a.m. Sydney, June 13. The " Teleagrapli ' in a leader eo- . titled "An Australasian Obligation •} m ; will say: " The praotical question ■ arises, what the country oWftsto the < dead statesman's memory.Anl how i that debt is to be discharged, Hr Scddon did not belong to the ordinary type of Colonial politician. He wa» * man of Empire, a maker of Imperial history. If the yalue of the work he did in this capacity was to be moasured by a common monetary standard, at tho hour of his death ho would have, been ono of tho richest mon in Ao&~. tralasia. During his thirteen years of' ollicc ho received a salary that a private i mercantile concern of moderate sim> would pay to one of the heads of it& various departments Viewed in thet 'ight of paymont for services rendered* fliat he drew from the Treasury wm> t lerofore, ridioulously inadequate. Wo nay take it for granted that New Zealand will rise to a full appreciation if its obligations in this rogard. It is iot, therefore, with a view to making a suggestion to our sister colony that I his article was written. There aro others who feel under obligation to the work of tho dead statesman. We Australians, however, have a speoial con cru in that work. It would not lie out Jof tho way if those oitizens of the Commonwealth who wish to take

pa'fc in paying the tribute to MrAddon's memory, whi h justice d e . niands, were given a practical oppi r . ■ tunity of doing so. Why should theie not be an Australasian recognition of the oblegation arising from the ud. timely death of one who was generally Mi recognised rs an Australasian States, man.