The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-20
AUSTRALIANS FUTURE.
TIE COMING GREATNESS OF THE
ANTlPOOEAN REPUBLIC.

, There is every reasonable probabili
that in 1883 Australia will be feder
republic, peopled by 90, 900, 900 Of Engii:
spcakius men, who, sprung from Il
same races us the Americans OF the Unto
will have developed separate aud reco
nizable type, resembling, yet diIeril
from, that Of their cousins In the westel
Atlantic. The most difficult work OF Sc
4 Element, the provision of food, houses, Il
{ struments and organization sufficient
tempt and to provide for increasing null
). tudes, has been accomplished, and SOC
Z the stream Of emigration--that wonderf
outflow Of annual armies from Europ
Ieaderless but obedient, guideless but U
, faltering-will turn to Australia In
creasing volume.
= The populousness is almost certain, al
D 50 is its organization as republic, and
q we shouLl predict, republic with &C
!. tain aggressive tendencies. Australia W
h have no boundaries but the sea, no neig
= Dor who dare threaten her, no absolu
n need for foreign policy OF any kind b
! -hc III - 40 Her DC
pie will differ from the American. they
will not be so entirely agricultural as the
Americans were, they will be hOrsemen,
not gig drivers; they will have almos.
from the first more ambition, aud they
will in many ways have at once greater
largeuess Of view aud more INSCRIPTIONS
ness. Already their foreign policy In.
terests Australians acutely and their
first effort 70 act as nation has been to
form q flee:. 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 rs far from
their coast as Constantnople from Lou
don; and they rage at the occupation OF
the New IIebrides by Foreigners though
the islands are 1900 miles away. Their
whole conception of distance differs from
ours as might that of the inhabitants OF q
larger planet; and their grasp when they
begin TO grasp, will be far reaching
Descended from adventurers not from
Puritaus, taught hardness by their early
contact with violent criminals, accustomed
TO tho Management, OF dark subject races
for half Australia can only be cult
waited by their aid-and eager as men Of
their climate must be for pleasant lives,
they will thirst for dependent possessions,
| for gardens were fortunes grow, for the
splendid fragments Of q broken continent
which spread in three great lines Of
! Islands from the Australian mainland 70
that OF Asia, and they will possess them
oil. From the Philippines in the north
about as far oil from Australia Us New
Zealand is--sJraight down o. tho south,
| Borneo and Sumatra, Celebcs and 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 government, as
owners Us VOL Us rulers. By the overspill
| Of southern Asia, which by that time,
lnuiess the ratio alters, will be grooming
under twice Us existing population.
The Australian republic will be mistress
not only on her own continent but Of the
| Eastern rchipelago-that is, Of tue lands
which in all 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
costly Of defending them, the habit Of
ruling them, w.ll force upon Australian
statesmen and people, fleets armes-dark
/ -
them ideas, habits and methods OF polit-
cal organization widely different from
those OF the Americans, from whom they
differ also il the arrangements Of their
society,
II is difficult, without mere dreaming
70 predict what the future Of this society
will be; but wo venture to think that il
will approximate much more closely 10
the Italian than the American type; that
ia, 1t will be democratic, but not hard.
The early Americans, whose influence IS
only Just dying out, were men OF aus
tere temper who led on an migrate
ful so.l-New England is worse
to farm than Scotiant-lyes Of per-
nanent hardship. They had 10 fight
the sea, the snow, the forests, the Indians
aud their own hearts: and did fight
them all, IL not with complete success, at
least with persistent hardness Tho Aus
tralans, we conceive, with a more con-
genial and altogether warmer climate,
without Puritan traditions, with wealth
among them from the first, aud with O
habit Of communion with Europe, will be
q softer, though not weaker people, fond
err Of luxury and better fitted to enjoy art,
with an appreciation OF beauty which the
Americans have never shown, and with
hot only love for literature but power
Of producing it in original forms. They
win be a people growing and drinking
wine, caring much for easy society, adj
dcted 70 conversation, and though ener-
eetic, with keen desire for well ordered
aud restful life.
They will not, unless compelled, allow
their women 10 wear themselves out az
the Americans do; will, In truth, we sus
pect, with that climate TO mold them,
and that indifference TO expense which Is
one Of their marked characteristics, never
be happy without servants, q difference
which, as tho servants must be dark, may
profoundly affect their civilization. They
will, In short, desire easier and larger
lives than the Americans do, viii bs
less persistently laborious, and Will fec
-wa note this already in Australians
almost az strongly as In Californ!ans-a
sort of worship for their climate. Th'
note Of discomfort which penetrates the
whole American character will be alb
sent, aud IL not exactly happier, they
will be moro AZ ease. All Australian
development Will be affected by tina
difference, and u they cease 10 be British
| Germans and Irish. the men OF tho new