Wichita eagle., 1888-03-31
SEE OUR SHOES.
AUSTRALIANS FUTURE.
THE COMING GREATNESS OF THE
ANTlPODEAN REPUBLIC.

A Century Hence It Will BE Peopled by
100000 of English Speaking Inhab.
itants-Mistress of the Eastern Arcl,i.
pelago-A New Type.
There is every reasonable probability
that in 1888 Australia will be a federal
republic, peopled by $4,000, 600 of English
speaking men, who, sprung from the
same races as the Americans of the Union,
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
struments and organization sufficient TO
tempt and to provide for increasing multi
tudes, has been accomplished, and soon
the stream of emigration-that wonderful
outflow of annual armies from Europe,
leaderless but obedient, guideless but un-
faltering-will turn to Australia in in
creasing volume.
The populousness is almost certain, and
80 is its organization as republic, and as
we should predict, republic with GER
tain aggressive tendencies. Australia will
have no boundaries but the sea, no neigh
Dor who dare threaten her. no absolute
need for foreign policy Of any kind, but
she will have one none the less. Her peo-
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 almost
from the first more ambition. and they
will in many ways have at once greater
largeness of view and more unscrupulous-
ness. Already their foreign policy in
terests Australians acutely, and their
first effort to act as nation has been to
form fleet. Already they display that
curious feeling, so 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 1000 miles away. Their
whole conception of distance differs from
ours as might that Of the inhabitants of
larger planet; and their grasp, when they
begin to grasp, will be far reaching.
Descended from adventures, not from
Puritans, taught hardness by their early
contact with violent criminals. accustomed
to the management Of dark subject races
for half Australia can only be culti-
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 broken continent
which spread in three great lines of
islands from the Australian mainland to
that Of Asia, and they will possess them
oil E'lCr,, rl, -, -
about as far off from Australia as New
Zealand is-straight down To the south,
Borneo and Sumatra, Ceiebes and Java.
the endless islands of the Banda sea. and
the grand mass Of Papua- viii ali belong
TO the Australians and will be cultivated
for them under their government, as
owners as we'll as rulers, by the overspill
of southern Asia, which by that time,
unless the ratio alters, will be groaning
under twice its existing population.
The Australian republic will be mistress
not only on her own continent but of the
Eastern a-chipelago-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- |
'ire to acquire these possessions, the ne
,eSsity of defending them. the habit Of |
.uiing them, will force upon Australian |
and people, fleets, armies-dark |
Is well as white-and alliances: and with |
hem ideas, habits and methods Of polit- |
cal organization widely different from
hose of the Americans, from whom they |
liffer also in the arrangements Of their |
society.
1t is difficult, without mere dreaming.
% predict what the future of this society |
Will be: but we venture 70 think that il .
viii approximate much more closely 10 /
he Italian than the American type: that
:. it will be democratic, but not hard.
The early Americans, whose influences is
'nly just dying out, were men Of aus
ere temper who led on an migrate
III soil-New England is worse
n farm than c~nAl.-a-1i.Aa Of mar.