AN ANTI-IMPERIAL PARTY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 329, 22 January 1909, Page 2

AN ANTI-IMPERIAL PARTY.

A NEWSPAPERS SsTIUCTUKES. London, January HI. I The; i'all Mall (lazet'tc characterise;. tin- Voting Australian National .Party as extraordinary and pronouncedly anti-Imperial. The iluzette also states that the manifesto should give Knglish Imperialists a shrewd hint to probe u little deeper below tile surface of the platitudes of Imperial rhetoric.

A LITTLE-KNOWN PAHTV. PARTICULARS OP ITS MANIFESTO. J Received January 22, !2.:tti a.m. ] Sydney, January 21. The Young Australia;! Party's manifesto, mentioned by the Pall -Mall, tiazette, evidently escaped the attention ! of Australia, although it is understood that the party has representatives in .all the States and New Zealand. Its platform proposes to secure the count.y lroiu the possibility of successful invasion, alter which it dc«ils with the ■more dillicult intricate tn.sk of evolving n syslciu 01 national govern incut, under which poverty is minimised, disease extirpated, and the commonwealth of all guarded against th»

rnpa-ity of the few. lis platform implies tliat there shall be no right of veto on Ooimnonwcanli legislation bv the.Crown or High Court. It shall DO % white Australia. Party government •hall be abolished, and the right reserved to make treaties with foreign Powers and to appoint consuls. The platform further provides for a compulsory citizens' defence force; sm Australian navy, built, manned and absolutely controlled by Australians; the abolition of State governments, parliaments, and constitutions; adequate wages for all; the abolition of capital punishment; a national banli; Commonwealth coinage; only Australians to own lands and mines, and the abolition of all titles.