AUSTRALIA'S PERIL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXIII, Issue 311, 15 January 1912, Page 6

AUSTRALIA'S PERIL.

A BIG KENNEL. .WITH A SMALL DOG. A special message to the Dwiedin Star- from A-uckfland last week stated:'—• in Auckland at the present time there a;re eight New .South "Wales Parliamentarians, wtho. -are naUmaliiy, much interested in the startling proposition put forward by Professor Oal-uoeot-t' (professor of mental and mOrai philosophy at King's College,- London) that, in order to make a white, Australia more stable, Great Britain should hold the eastern, halt* of Australia anti Germany the western half. Mr J. C. L. Fitzpatrick, M.L.A., oa being interviewed, said the only way such a wild wind frenzied scheme could be carried out would be at the l>oint of tlie bayonet. The British nation as a whole would resent the proposition. At the same time, added Air Fitzpatrick, there was no denying that Australia occupied a more or less dangerous position for lack of defenders. . Two or three years ago he had visited Java, and when he returned he delivered a series of lectures upon the grave danger threateningAustralia from the East. He was thoroughly convinced of the reality of the risk of a yellow invasion. Australia, with her to tail population of 4J ■millions and her huge areas of rich country absolutely linpeopled in the north, appeared as an attractive prize td'the crowded millions who wore in the archipelago. There were 40 millions Javanese within 40 hours' sail of the Northern Territory. He was not one of those who "treated the danger lightly, .and he was inclined to agree with -the recent English visito* to the Commonwealth who referred, to Australia as very large kennel with a very small! dog inside. , The only real remedy, in Mr Fitzpatrick's opinion was to encourage all the immigration possible, whether English, Scotch,. Irish or European. He w;as not in favor of any embargo on nationality so long as it was white, and the people confirmed to the Australian methods of living. For that, reason he was opposed to any form of legislation which would keep out a white, man simply because he was not British. There was every reason for maintaining the purity of race so far. a® Asiatics were concerned, but that was as far as the embargo should go

He had seen a good deal of the Northern Territory, and the opinions ex-pressed,-by. Professor Gilruth, of Melbourne, while in Auckland a few days l ago. i ,ancnt the reality of the danger of Asiatic invasion coincided with the sentiments which he (Mr Fitzpatrick) had expressed publicly several yeajfj ago. The Northern Territory was quite, capable of developemont by white men, mid the only remedy was a vigorous immigration policy.