AS OTHERS SEE US.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8544, 26 March 1908, Page 3

AS OTHERS SEE US.

The Italo-Australiano reproduces an article from a Rome paper, from which the following is an extract: —"Australia and New Zealand represent tho most detestable type of civilisation. Their Governments, which style themselves socialistic, their so-called Labour democracy, are merely empty names. Tho most recent phases of civilisation", which wo so much admire, are with them but moans of exploitation; forms of selfishness and greed of the most ponderous description. Civilisation without ■ the light of thought, without identity, only one thing they desire, to one end alone they tend—money. With immense tracts of land lying fallow, calling for cultivation, they impede or limit immigration that they may keep their wages up to a high standard; with enormous riches to develop they decrease tho birth-rate by egoistic and immoral malthusianism. New Zealand, situated at the antipodes of Italy, with more or less the same climate, with an almost equal area, and with fewer inhabitants than the province of Florence, would look upon Italian immigration as a misfortune. With a territory that might perhaps sustain a population equal to that of Europe, Australia and New Zealand have no more inhabitants than tho province's of Vonetia and Emilia together. If a day should como when England bo involved in a European war, not only could she not defend Australia, but probably might find it convenient to abandon it. In any case, it will bo bv way of tho Philippines, after a probable conflict with the United States, that Japan, followed and urged on by China, will push towards its dominion of the future, the dominion over a new continent. - resolved, sooner or Liter, to conquest by tho Mongol race."