LIMIT OF DEMOCRACY

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10384, 1 May 1925, Page 7

LIMIT OF DEMOCRACY

AMERICAN ON AUSTRALIA. "UNIONS ARE RUNNING YOU." Mr Edward W. Stripps, multi-mil-lionaire, and owner of 32 newspapers in the United States, visited Australia recently on his voyage round the world in his 500,000<-dolla,r private yacht. "You have got democracy here, he remarked to an interviewer at Brisbane. "You have got it to the limit. You have got a proletariat Government, but you have not got enough strong menkings of industry and aristocrats of industry. The people are stronger, and they are having their own way. I hear nothing but strikes, strikes, strikes. The unions are running you. "In America we are trying to experiment, but you are trying a greater experiment hero. The United States took hundreds of thousands of immigrants, while Australia is only taking fiveo of thousands. Cut out the sentimental and militaristic considerations, and ask whether it pays to bring lmmifrrants into the country. There is a limit, a line of saturation, which the number of the population of a country can reach, but until that point is reached the country is not effectively Australia, with her small population bunched together in cities, is in this case."