MR. BENT ON IMMIGRATION.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 174, 16 April 1908, Page 4

MR. BENT ON IMMIGRATION.

■ i ' »- : : v -; ■"'■.'.•a characteristic Speech.: At'a' banqueViu Melbourne' the other day a number of.: prominent politicians delivered •; themselves of ..their . views on the subject; of.' • immigration. _ . y.' , Mr. Bent,, Premier, of Victoria, said that' whonhe .was in, England Jie.had' offered^ Mr., Doakin :-a million;:acres V;feting. From , " t-hat.tiiiio to this Mr. Denlcin had dono nothing to take up the land. Before they asked', peoplo to - conic hero , from .'England; they , should provido for the son's of the pioneers. '; ' "Talk about Canada.' Canada! Canad.itl Canada 111" Mr. Bpnt exclaimed with , a.ris-' iiig- inoeotion. ;AV]ierover I go.it is. Canada. Canada is.one of the coldest countries in the world. It- would make, : you sshiver../ Canada .. is so blooming cold it would make your teeth .' fall out. . . Why should , our money be spent . in bringing competitors.against our own plo? What has,the Commonwehlth done for us,.'. anyhow?/ .Simply' restricted- all your ope-' • rations by brinpng laws of a yexatious character. Talk;/about a High. Commissioner! ; That is where L. differ ;again : with Mr.' Ir-< vino. . Evon witlr a High Commissioner.wb aro lwimd still,to liaVo our Agents-General to distribute our produce... It is all very well to talk about Japanese.. AVo .are under; tho ' . English flag, and they must lick England.bo- , fOTti they. can lick ns.", •(Cheers.) .. '. ; . ' Mr. Dent went on to say .'that Australia \wt# .... bound to be peoplixi ;in time, and there-was 110 need to.be afraid of tho:Asiatic races, aa V pile Englishman could lick 50 '/Eurasians. ■■ .