FEDERAL ELECTIONS.
The Australian Premier very, appropriately conjoins two kindred national ideas when he declares for “ preferential trade for a White Australia.” These islands of ours are so happily situated that no serious objection Can be taken against our national determination to keep them not merely, “ white ”- but as nearly Biitisn as possible. There is not an acre of fertile soil from Maria Van Diemen' to the Bluff which can-
not evidently he cultivated by men of Tcutonip stock as well as by any other. Australia, lying partly within the tropics, has a very different and very serious color problem, infinitely mote serious and more difficult than that which is creating what white-miner countries must regard as an undue amount of trouble on tho Rand. We have not the slightest doubly.that tile .white miner will work "as well on the Rand as at Waihi or Charters Towers, it white labor conditions are once established. There was a decided clement, of doubt as to whether the white man could he successfully employed in the Queensland sugar-cane fields. While all our sympathies were with the White Australian movement, we were compelled to admit this clement of doubt, so that it is exceedingly gratifying and reassuring to see that'iVlr Deakin is able to regard the White Australia policy as Vviow speiire. ’’\ .We, may, deduce from this that white labor has ■proved fairly, effective in the sugar industry and' that wo are are to see at last full and fair opportunity given to our Northern rac-c to establish itself within the tropics, uncontaminated by a servile and alien class. The conjoining of “ preferential trade ” with “ White Australia ” is appropriate,-.because the two conceptions have as a common hasiSj •the economic truth that the national -safety is the extreme law^' It is not possible for any people, intensely national and determined to hold its own, to be bound by, any, theoretic dogmas or by any, scholastic postulates when it feels itself endangered by the pressure of alien races and foreign trade.,—N.Z. Herald^
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 3
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336FEDERAL ELECTIONS. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1038, 3 November 1903, Page 3
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