A FAIR CONTRIBUTION.
m are proud of our riches; but we must not spend our days' weighing them in a pair of scales. Wealthy as we are, ive have leaned heavily on Britain for ©ur defence; we have allowed the Motherland to pay the cost of insuring our safety. While we paid our 5s a head for the defence of Australia, the British people paid nearly 30s a head to defend Britain and Australia too. Can any Australian-feel, pride in that? Our iirst line of defence lies in our great navy, in whatever ocean it fights. This line of defence is a danger, not of defeat, but of being shaken in its invulnerability ; it is time for the self-govern-ing dominions to say—“We will heljj to keep -“it impregnable, if human effort can “do so.” This is the real desire ©f the Australian people. We shall have also our own schemes of localised defence; but the maintenance of Imperial seapower is necessarily the first aim for all the Britsih dominions. With British confederacy fights with its back against the wall. The people of Australia are awake to an idea which in the future of the empire will be rich in results. .They recognise that in years to come the safety of the empire must rest upon the basis of united power. — Melbourne “Argus.” . .
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2469, 6 April 1909, Page 7
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222A FAIR CONTRIBUTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2469, 6 April 1909, Page 7
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