"DON'T BE MISLED."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 80, 30 April 1909, Page 2

"DON'T BE MISLED."

Sill HARRY RAWKON'S ADVICE. The densely-packed audience at the Town Hull'when -Sir Harry Rawson said farewell to the citizens of Sydney were reminded by his Excellency of their responsibilities in regard to the defence ot Australia. "The Australian flag is a grand Hag, and one you will always be proud of," Sir Harry said, "but I want you to remember that up in tile corner of that (lag there is a little Union Jack —(cheers)—which has always stood for that liberty 'which your forefathers and mine fonglit for and won, and that'we now enjoy. We 'have inherited it—wc had not to fight for it.

"Ncnv, I want to impress upon yon that Australia is a young country," Sir Harry continued, "-but yet you have a long "history behind you, because the history and' glories of the old Kmpirc belong to you just as much as to inf. (Cheers.) 'l -want you, as I am certain you do, to love your Australian Hag, and at the same time I want you to love the Union Jack. (Cheers.) It is the Hag that Muds us all together. _W e all belong to the great Kmpirc which may he termed 'the Greater llritnin.' It is an Empire widely spread, ami comprises, you might say, the pick of the plums of the whole world. There nvt: nations that have no such areas, and that are looking for outlets for their population —maybe looking tor such spots of the world as this, and wishing they may got them.

"You have a magnificent country, and I am certain that, if I am alive to see it. ill fifty years Australia will be one of the finest spots in t'h P world. You have everything here but the population, and I hope you will get that. ■'Hut 1 especially want to impress oil the young men and 'boys of the country that they will have to defend it from the covetousuess of any other nation that may want to .plant a foot in it. f am ■certnin that, if necessary, you would willingly die in the effort to protect your country. "Don't lie led away with what took place in South Africa. Yon men did maguificenl work there; but you must remember that you were lighting a very ■brave enemy, but not nil enemy that moved about in thousands under real discipline. They were excellent scouts and magnificent, guerilla lighters. But if you have to light a nation that means business, you will find it a very different thing. You must therefore give yourselves up to drilling together to become not a mob. but a machine that will work without friction. Xn nation has been saved by guerilla wariare. You can go right hack in history to prove this. You .may be told that you have the men you have good men. good shots, and good riders—but unless they are drilled together and able to he formed iiiin what may be termed 'an army.' (hen any real disciplined army would be a great, ileal 100 much for them. - '

His Kxcdleney. continuing, said he admired wlial was done bv Australian troo|w i n South Africa. They did magniliceut work, and he knew'that they were grand comrades, lie.was not Irving to detract from the masrnillcenl qualities they hud shown, but lie wanted them to remember Unit the defence of Ibis country would depend in a great measure upon themselves. "It is not rinhl." concluded Sir Uarrv, "thai 1 should lecture you like this; but 1 could not help saying what 1 have, because I love your country.' 1 (Loud dicers.)