SLAVE DAYS FOR AUSTRALIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1081, 6 February 1918, Page 6

SLAVE DAYS FOR AUSTRALIA.

GERMAN PROFESSOR’S FORECAST. A correspondent forwarded to the? Sydney Morning Herald an extract from a newspaper in which Professor Jacob Burekhardt. who attended the last Science Congress in Australia, foreshadows Australia’s future under German rule. Professor Burekhardt received tho warmest hospitality during his stay in Australia, and the newspapers show that it was not until he returned to Germany that lie- made the following astounding comments;— “ When wo come, to Australia we do not anticipate any difficulty with the young generation. They have proved themsolves to be the most arrant cowards. The young males are spineless jellyfish. * Tho only people they bully arc their aged parents, to whom they should bo a blessing in their old ago, but are a curse. ft would have been better for the world to-day Jiad they* been strangled at birth. They only speak the truth by accident, or only when a lie will not serve their purpose. They have no respect for the aged. Tho only time they go to church is when Divine service is ended, and then for the purpose of waylaying the young maidens, who, tor outward appearances and respectability, attend the' evening devotions. Their only ambition is to work in a dry goods store, tin office or emporium. They have not any desire to exercise their intellect. We will put them in gangs on the road .and making fortifications, locking them up in stockades at night. Only the German conquerors will he permitted to the drama, sports, and other amusements. Alter a time we will allow the womenfolk ■freedom, but they will not bo permitted to speak oven to their Australian boys our slaves. I hey will soon lot get them and embrace us, as witness the number of girls, to say nothing ol married women, who are our avowed friends. All tlie same, they prove very uninteresting companions, owing to lack of intellectuality, hut will soon become at least docile m our hands. They are not on a much higher plane than tho black or brown savage, save their skin is while, when the paint and powder admit ot a glimpse. V\ e are inclined to forgive them because 1 they admire our German youtn. especially those with plenty of com. We look forward with interest to our twentieth century Arabian Nights in Austral land. ‘ The factory girls and sewing girls are even worse. They arc utterly impossible creatures. The domestic servants are a lazy, insolent brainless lot with onlv one thought—this is. to -ct awav from toil and promenade the streets in what they appear to consider smart frocks, often costing as much, if not more, than their mistress’s costumes, loaning on the ami ol pimple-faced boys, or old rakes. Our womenfolk will straighten them up. ]f they rebel we will put them on the roads or in the fields.’