THE COLOR QUESTION.
THE "WHITE AUSTRALIA" POLICY. ( London, October 29. The Under-Secretary for the Colonics, Colonel Seeley, speaking at the Liueral (Colonial Club, said he anticipated an early settlement of the Indian difficulty in the Transvaal. Xatal's problem was .harder, but it mig/it be solved by excluding further immigrants and treating generously those already there. Australia, he said, was primarily a white man's country. Australian opinion clung so earnestly to the ideal of .1 "white Australia" that she declared herself determined to make the experiment of peopling eve, ine tropical territory with whites. The succ<*> of the experiment was a question of population. Australia's future depended on the possibility of inci-cAscd wnite immigration and a higher birthrate amoiig the white inhabitants
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 264, 31 October 1908, Page 2
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121THE COLOR QUESTION. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 264, 31 October 1908, Page 2
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