The Future of Australia

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume IV, Issue 1165, 8 December 1904, Page 2

The Future of Australia

Views of an American

Press Association—Copyiigiat. Sidney, this day. Professor Bmmuw, of the Halo University, in an interview, say! thai it seemed to him that Australia was far and away th o most important clement in the Englishspeaking empire. She was geographically at a pant whore she would have to act possibly alone for her own safety, if not forth integrity of the empire. America would soon bo niching her hand to Australia from the Philippines a* well as from ban inwewo, and America's colonial posaeuions would soon be looking to Australia as a natural protector «s well as their best market. The life of tho Germans in Pacific waters, as well as in South Africa, was not worth many years' p UH chase The question of controlling the islands of the Pacific would rest with Australia from the moment that (hero was pressure of population or when Home political excitement made it appear necessary to preaorvo for the future a lutlo more olbow room.