The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23

where we sailed in and stayed only long
enough for an hour and half's address,
hundreds of thousands of dollars were
expended in building a breakwater and
so at Osborne, and at different points on
the Australian coast, harbors have been
constructed by human hands, but the
storms looked at
THESE DEFIANT RAMPAHTs,
and in a night tumbled the costly works
into the Pacific. Harbor building is the
reserved right of the heavens. Gates of
palaces and gates of fortresses may be
turned out from earthly fOundries, or
pounned together by hammers of human
mechanism, but an ocean gate like that
near which am now seated needs omnip-
otence and omniscience and infnity to
plan and construct it.
No one but the Eternal knows where
such gate is needed. He sees the his
tory of a continent before 1t is populated
and he only can decide where its front
door ought to be hoisted and swung. Be
side that the gate must correspond with
the size and greatness of the main build
ing. The door of the Madeleine Church
would be absurd at the front Of a Quaker
Meeting House. Bronze and gold would
make an inappropriate entrance TO a rock
cry. Such an entrance to Australia as
Sydney harbor would be something
for all time and eternity to teer at, if the
country thus entered were not something
unreasonable for wealth, resource, and
grand opportunity Had / known moth
ing of the history of Australia what |
saw between the door posts of this har-
Dor and the wharf of our disem barkation
would have convinced me of the present
and coming opulence of this fifth conti-
nent of the world. With such an ocean
tn II Vns,Fr -. Il.
fourteen times as large as France and
thirty-three times as large as England.
Scotland and Wales. 1t has been esti-
mated as capable of supporting one hun
dred millions of people. All wealth of
mining and agriculture and commerce.
and art and scenery are here. Caves
larger than the mammoth cave of Ken
lucky,
LAKES LIKE COMO,
Lucerne, and Geneva A botany so rich
in flowers that Capt. Cook called one of
the entrances Botany Bay" Whole
Pennsylvania of coal mines, discovered
by a shipwrecked sailor in 1897, but now
defying the crowbars of the earth TO take
one-half of their treasures, and having
enough material to warm a continent and
keep aglow the steamship furnaces Of an
ocean. Enough sheep pasture in the wales
and on the hills to clothe with their wool
frozen in refrigerators here, are tran3-
ferred in carts which are refrigerators
into ships which are refrigerators and
carried across the seas to the refrigera-
tors of Europe and Asia, so that while |
write this letter almost within sound of
the bleating fiocks of this sheep raising
country, the legs of Australian mutton
hang in London markets ana the inhabi-
tants of India are breakfasting on lamb
chops brought from the banks OF Sydney
harhOr One sheep paddock of nearly
two hundred miles square.
So much of these colonies is In the trop-
les that they will have a capacity, when
fully developed. to yield enough sugar to
sweeten the beverages of the earth, and
raise enough tea to soothe nerves and
stimulate the conversation Of the social
groups Of all zones, and produce enough
cotton TO clothe hemispheres Enough
iron to be brought up from the cellar Of
these colonies 20 rail-track the planet.
Copper and lead, silver and gold, waiting
for resurrection. Sapphires and rubies,
topaz and chrysoberyls ready TO flash and
burn on the bosom of the worlds beauty.
Copes creek yielded in one year Is, 900
diamonds.
10 you say that vast regions are not ar
able but DESERT Yes, but boring UNDER
meath the sand and rock discovered water
which is only waiting TO be called up 70
irrigate the surface. what irrigation
has done for Egypt and China, and Is do
ing for the American desert, will be done
for
THE IDLE ACREAGE or AUSTRALIA.
II has been demonstrated again and
again that better than the rainfall IL is
70 have waters gathered into reservoirs:
and so droughts ana freshets are avoided,
and when you want water you turn II on,
and when you want IL 10 stop, you turn 10
on II sou say there are not enough hills
Ina Australia 10 pour down the water upon