AUSTRALIAN POPULATION PROBLEMS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 11 June 1907, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN POPULATION PROBLEMS.

COMMENTS IN LONDON: . ; / [UNIIBD Pa.833 -AsSOCIATIOH.—COEY; • "•'■ (Received" June 11, 8.50 a.m.) - .LONDON, Monday. The "Times," commenting on Northern Territory prospects,, asserts that .-Port"- Darwin 'is. defensible without a large population. The paper adds that Mi 1 Watson, the Labour leader, may , find, near to the cenlces of Australian 'life ample scope for his new conceptions of the need of population. . • (Received 9.15 a.m.) \ '■. ■""- SYDNEY, Tuesday.

The; "Times," -iii, its article, is alluding to the speech 'made by Mr Watson during his recent tour in the Northern where he declared, that there could be no. doubt as to :the importance to the people of ' Australia of having the Northern Territory peopled, and peopled as/densely, as '.possible;- with a population which : could be relied upon in times of emergency.'.- •„ He considered -that a graved- danger was, thi^ateningAustra-: Ba at this tune -leaving open this door to; a. vp'eople,. who, - although they- were friendly today y might in the whirligig :of time, become auythuig but friendly."

/v [Archdeacon ' Crossley, : in Melbourne: at the .Empire, Day celebrations,-;; said he thought it would npfc be inappropriate, being Empire Sunday, to say, a wprd or two on the -future of AuslraHaV. That Australia had a future was. a matter that the world believed, but.if Australians did nptUake care thai Australia's v development was wisely ■managed -v. it could snot be hoped that .the nation^ vipuld, 7 last. There was plenty 'of E ooni . in .Australia. It was not desirable that tlie .crushed' misery Of huddled populations should be reproduced here; yet Australians must look to it that the room they had was not selfishly held. The eyes of others ware : watching their progress, and, they might ! be certain that: if- Australia' failed' to do ■•a .•nation.s part others would see it done without/? Australia's. ■; assistance. ■ He ' .commended; to the ■"studious Sir Henry :Wrixon's. book,; "A /Pattern Nation/ There it. was rightly asserted that the world, especially the Anglo-Saxon world, was committed to allowing half .its public concerns to be worked on the principle of .socialism. Sir Henry- Wrixon asked people, therefore to estimate the ; danger that might be ahead in the crushing out of individualism. Rather, he thought,; their, tendencies should direct' them to fostering that true social patriotism which would open t:p a channel for every man to attain the highest position his fellows ; ■ could offer him, which would Ebe that jno man was hungry -who would work, and that no man ; was ' workless who .desired work. Those were great considerations . that would affect Australia's future. As to commercial affairs, God grant that Australia might be/saved from the hideous, i criminal, filthy,' "adulteratioii that had occurred in another land;) j