A WHITE AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 227, 30 October 1909, Page 2

A WHITE AUSTRALIA.

AN LNCIIItISJIA-X i'RINCII'Li;. INDEXTI'KEI) LAtttJR FAVORED. I'y Cable—l'ress Association—Copyright Aleluoiirne, October 211. The Anglican Congress discussed the ■' White Australia" question. Divergent views were expressed on the probable result of the Asiatic overflow to Australia. I Archdoacon Whitington said if a white 'Australia was' intended to carefully guard racial purity, he was altogether in favor of it. He was afraid his Labor friends meant a good deal more and intended the entire exclusion of colored races. lie thought, that consideration might be given as suggested to develop tropical Australia by means of indentured labor. Canon Stephen said it was not a difference of civilisation but a different* of religion, and for the sake of religion t'lic " White Australia" policy was tho right one.

The Archbishop of llrisbaue considered the " W'hite Australia" principle was un-Christian. The only alternative to having colored races was an empty northern territory, and the attraction of an empty north would be greater than if tlicy attempted to fill it. The only solution of tho trouble was indentured labor, and he was heretic enough to believe that the salvation of the north was to be found in Kanaka labor.