AUSTRALIA FOR THE ASIATICS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 93, 13 January 1908, Page 11

AUSTRALIA FOR THE ASIATICS.

MTT"AUSTRALIANS' MIGRATE TO,NEW , , - ZEALAND. .'' A: LITTLE. ENGLANDER'S' 'VIEWS. ■■ " In _tHe December ''Westminister' Review" 'UrJ-.Fiineis ."Kdm writes in favour, virtually, ojf iai'Sismemformoht of the British EnipiroV ThVifolWing' is'what he'has to say about : tKe,'futuro'of :-r- • ■' " '"Is it to bo supposed that puissant 'Japan and,,completely armed China will everlastwhilst of ; those crowded coiiiitricß desiro to'find.a.livelihood: in oife lands, that tho yast island of Australia shall.be kept as a sacred reserve for a small;number,df whitd people? "Ifi'the Governments of those countries point but to our Government that Australia is a largo part of mankind's common heritage, and propose i that, as' it lies in their part (if- the globo, the yellow man shall have his share.i>F it, .whit .reply could beigiven to and human a claim? "Let.,tho British politician to whom such a proposition is abhorrent try to write a conchisivo reply to such a.demand; and let him have before his eyes tlie while a map on which;. 400,000,000,. is written China, and 4,ooo,ooo'across Australia. \ ' ( "If, oh,, receiving the-' rebuff tho yellow Governments;;/conscious ' of ' their natural right; ;.dqtermino .to it,'; and'.send .tronbmds**-in..'.'support;'fof. emigrant ships, would four., people.; decide that—to the great : delight'of' our European rivals—a fleet deeped toibe strong enough' to master the navies ofjjthosoj'two nations should ;be sent so far away ■'•'with'a possibility/of none of the ships composing', it;over.".riding-', again in'-British Waters,; arid with the'strdhg probability 6f the l blow-liaViiig to' 1 be repeated now and th'cn ?Npt : if tnoy wisely' asked themselves whether' there was any gain to the United Ki%d6nii', accruing from the retention; of Australia. * . ■'Perhapsj it is time ■ that the am&zitig .and pOrtentd'uS'ppliticaL, change,' . which' hiU Come about'in tho /Far.-East, should;.bfr recognised h6re at.Home; and perhaps it is unwiso, now thatf,it.\is -.already .patent, to all far-seeing stetesiflefijHha# Australia will' bo a yellow man!s!l&iid,--to ignor«iVthafr'prospect, : and to make; arrangements, as tljpugh. such a thing . oould • not ; possibly bo. ... ;. 'v ' . ... . ■ "Tho*' !AustHi]iahs --shrewdly,: apprehending that there will bo Sn early arrival from tho north Of. countless pagans, conducted by a fortio which.they, coulu. not repel, would do Welpto". migrate; New Zealand, , wbifc c6tobin&'^populations,. if. they, . like,tho Spartans ( of .old, devoted all" 'their' thoughts :^ijd..'enotgie's'"to military. might have; of holding those-is-lands againrtHnimlcal.intruders. Thus they, might escape their otherwise inevitable-fate; of,being jsubordinatod: to tho Mongolian'in.'a land .lyhich tlioy have hitherto deemed to bo ivorlastirigly. tjieir, own." • '. ' 'fyf-Xi. '' \ :