AUSTRALASIA'S EXAMPLE

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2887, 6 March 1916, Page 1

AUSTRALASIA'S EXAMPLE

A LESSON TO WHIMPERERS

(Br Dr. F. W. Ward, ex-editor, in the Sydney Telegraph.) London,-DccemboT 30. I have never been prowler of Australia and New /jealand than during tho ela.y.s which immediately followed the .-uiiou.iu.'o-in-eii't of tlie withdrawal of the Austral i.any mud New Zealanders from Anzae. You took tlie news, if I may say so,'-in a very noble temper. I. elr> not reiiieniiboii- that one wJiinipi'-rinK message reached EmgtaiKl fro-m a respems'i.ble' politician, or repre.seri,hi.l/iv<> journal. Tbe respon.se wa.s just what oik- could havo wi'lsTi i>e I it lo be. 11, uas ureal. In a. proi'e.s.siojlsj I lifetime i. 'hav<- often written to the en-e..',|, tli-ji.f the gift, of full selfgovernment lei Australian, and New Zealand- \\a,s aixiiKlaintly justified by the absolute relief f rom Vc»ponisib,iEty it .bad given to like Imperial Parliament and Government. For CO peace, ful year« the Imperial authori tie's had ] no auixioficx about, the -remote sonfh- \ crn peoples. Th<- more you pond.or il tile more wonderful floes the f.'o-t appean-. Pro-li-a.bly very few members of the Imperial Parliament havo any inrf-inifiite aeeirui.Mitance with Australia's and New ZealandV voluminous legnsliUiom. The Imperial antliorities aiiid the niofiher-pconle luavp learned to trust the Antipodean communities absoln.l-el v. j