IN PRAISE OF AUSTRALIA.

Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 20, 18 December 1906, Page 8

IN PRAISE OF AUSTRALIA.

Australia has her detractors, and some of the worst belong to her own household. This is her misfortune, which every true lover of his country, will deplore. But all good things and good people are liable to suffer in the same way. Not that they are faultless ; but it is easier for some people to find fait than to praise. Nevertheless we could do with a little more encouragement to think well of the Commonwealth, and to believe or at least hope for, better things than some of our critics imagine. This is how the "Choctaw Inquirer” cracks up Texas, its native state: "Texas is a whopper. She is a peach : the pebble on the beach. She’s the widest, broadest, and longest country en earth, extending from east to west and from North to South. She could put Bhode Island in her vest pocket. She could swallow three or four States like Maryland and wash ’em down by drinking the Mississippi dry, and digest ’em without even having the colic. Texas is the chief among ten thousand, and altogether lively, wild, and reckless. She’s a wolf, and it’s her day to howl." Without howling, however, in this "lively, wild and reckless" fashion, might we not consider more frequently our advantages sod opportunities, and malm the most of them, letting our detractors do the howling, if they are so wolfishly tofllnri ill .■i.iii