Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-03-22
AUSTRALIANS FUTURE.
THE COMING GREATNESS OF THE
ANTiPODEAN REPUBLIC.

A Century Hence It Will Be Peopled BY
so.ooO.ooO of English Speaking Inhab-
ftant--Nistress Of the Eastern Archf-
peiago-A New Type.
There is every reasonable probability
that in 1888 Australia Will be federal
republic, peopled By 80, 600, 600 OF English
speaking men, who, sprung from the
same races as the Americans Of the [ Dion,
Will have developed a separate and recog-
nizable type, resembling, yet differing
from, that Of their cousins in the western
Atlantic The most difficult work of set
tlement, the provision Of food, houses, in
strurnents and organization sufficient to
tempt and TO provide for increasing multi
tudes, has been accomplished, and soon
the stream Of emigration--thatw wonderful
outflow Of annual armies from Europe,
leaderless bul obedient, guideess but IN
faltering-will turn TO Australia in in
creasing volume.
The populousness is almost certain, and
80 Is its organization as a republic, and as
we should predict, republic with GER
tain aggressive tendencies Australia viii
have no boundaries but the sea, no neigh
need for a foreign policy Of any kind, but
she will have one none the less. Her peo-
pic will differ from the American. They
will not he so entirely agricultural as the
Americans were, they will be horsemen,
not gig drivers; they will have almost
from the first more ambition, and they
will In many ways have ut once a greater
largeness OF view and more INSCRIPTIONS
ness Already their foreign policy in
terests Australians acutely, and their
first effort 10 act as a nation has been 70
form u fleet. Already they display that
curious feeling 50 different in different
peoples that distance on water has for
them little or no meaning They never
dream Of excluding New Zealand from
their aggregate, though it is as far from
their coast as Constantinople from Lon
don: and they rage at the occupation Of
the New Hebrides by foreigners. though
the Islands are 1900 miles away. Their
whole conception Of distance differs from
ours as might that Of the Inhabitants OF "a
larger planet; and their grasp, when they
begin 20 grasp, will be far reaching
Descended from adveuturers, not from
Puritans taught hardness by their early
contact with violent criminals accustomed
To- the Igenen. Of dark subject races
for half Australia can only he culti-
waited by their aid-and eager aS men of
their climate must be for pleasant lives,
they will thirst for dependent pos essions,
for gardens were fortunes grow, for the
splendid fragments OF broken continent
which spread in three great lines Of
islands from the Australian mainland to
that Of Asia, and they will possess them
all From the Philippines in the north
Al, ~ fur of from Australia Nayv
Zealand is-straieht down 10 the south,
Borneo and -umatrI, Celebes aud Java,
the endless islands Of the Banda sea, and
the grand mass Of Papua, will all belong
TO the Australians and will be cultivated
for them under their govern 0Dt, as
owners ~ well rs rulers, by the overspill
OF southern Asia, which by that time,
unless the ratio alters. will he grooming
under tw 'ce its existing population
The Australian republic will be mistress
not only on her own continent but of the
Eastern nrchipelago--that is, of the lands
which in ali the world are richest in min
erals. forests and the means of yielding
all that the tropics can produce. The de
sire to acquire these possessions, the ne
ce-sity Of defending them, the habit of
ruling them will force upon Australian
statesmen and people, fleets, armles-dark
a, well IA while--und alliances; and with
them ideas habits and methods of polt-
zeal organization widely different from
those Of the Americans, from whom they
differ also in the arrangements of their
society.
1t is difficult. without mere dreaming,
to predict what the future of this society
Will be; but we venture to think that it
will approximate much more closely to
l.. . -
is, it viii bc democratic, but not hard,
The curly Am rican9, whose influence is
only just dyint out. were inen of aus
tcre temper who led on an migrate
full sou New England is worse
to farm than Scotnnd-lives of per-
manent har i~hp. They had to fight
tine sea, the snow the forests. the Indians
and their own hearts; and did fight
them all. il not with complete success, Mt
least with persistent hardness. The Aus
tralAu5. we conceive. with "A more con-
genial and altogether warmer climate,
without Puritan traditions, with wealth
among them from the first, and with
habit Of communion with Europe, will be
n softer though not weaker people, fond
er of luxury aud better fitted to enjoy art,
with an HppIvc alton of beauty which the
Americans have never shown and with
not only a love for literature but power
of producing il in original forms. They
will be il people growing and drinking
wine caru-. much for easy society, ad-
die -rd to conversation, and though ener-
r"1iC with keen desire for a well ordered
and ur~jtul lll".
ILeY viii not, unless compelled. allow
Their women tu wear themselves out as
the Americans dp: viii, in truth, we sus-
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