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Timaru Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 6062, 22 September 1894, Page 4

msmse^i^masssm^essß^^i^mm Mai O'Bell, m an article m the Bemtt de Paris on Australia, tays :— " I have travelled all over the world, and I have lived m 1 England, and m the two great, republics ' of Franoe and America, and I have arrived 1 at the oonviotion that there exists on our plauet only one people perfectly free politically and socially, and that is the Bnglish. The love of liberty acd independenoo is so firmly rooted m that when it establishes a oolony it oannot onoeive it otherwise than free and independent." The sovereign of Australia (oontinues Max O'Bell) is neither the Queen, nor tbe Governor nominated by her, nor the members vf Parliament eleoted by tbe people, nor tbe Ministers ohosen by tbe Parliament, the lord and master of Australia is the workman. Unfortunately he does not profit by the opportunity, and he takes oare that others shall not do so. He is lazy, drunken, a sieve — thinkiog only of bis own pleasures and taking to intereit m the development, bf his oountry. He vegetates m the great towns whilst the country is crying for bands. He wonld do well to imitate the Chinaman whom he despises. One of the most careful valuators of Victorian broad aoree taye that hundreds of borrowers of three years ago, on the very best land at vety low interest, and on a 50 per oent margin, oannot pay even the interest on the mortgages- Unless wheat jumps tremendously, he prophesies, thtt the Oredit Fonder loans will turn out equally disastrous m the end.