The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-09

hsr os representatives. should say how
prosfsson % tire constitution was aSortet
~ majority Of oniy tive voses. and
promptly thereafter TIE delegates from
West Australia withdrew, announcing that
ssses. coacnv woasd not enter the confei-
Grafton nnsess their demands were c5r-
selled with.
e soe@ ret appear however. that this
secession Viii wreck the attempt at fed
eyntson. II II Krranssd thas the fedora
tson shall t-s inatgura,@t II q cerfsaln run,-
! b4r CO cosonf-@ favor II. and more than
that nEriser represented al Adelaide have
declared ,he constitution carried. At saa
meeting or September the question as to
the rsowers q the senate in relation 10
money bills VII again BE- taken Mp After
the Snsl decision Is had upon iris rnattsr
bat one step more will be needed 10 COM
pl.Ee tfs work. This will be the .ote OF
the people. No further action upon the
para Of the colonial legislatures is needed.
but as soon as a federal constitution f.
framed * viii BE- pronounced upon direct
~ By the popular will Ehouid three colo
MES favor &. federation viii Re an accom-
plixhe5 fact.
r.. Hon George III Reid. premier Of
New South Wales. ard Hon. II. C. King
ston, premier % South Australia. 1ho are
ca their way home after attending the
Jubilee festivities In England. were IN Van
- r.
10 dispatches 10 rfe Po~t-Inseliigeneer
both are confident that the popular vote
Will be in favor of the proposed confes-
GRAFTON.
The new government, 50 formed, will
have much more power and prestige than
the single colonies, and the colonies
which uayat first hold aIoof will undoubt-
edly see that II is TO their advantage to
enter the confederation.
with Austraiasi&s confpaeted into a
single government. there will remain only
south Africa TO consolidate. The prob
lem there is made difficult by differences
CT race. but aot more difficuit than IL was
in Canada The French In Canada were
opposed 20 the English In religion as
well as race, bat consolidation was effect
ed there. and the queen now has no sup
jects more loyal t,zan the French Cana
dams. The Dutch of the Transvaai Diff
fer from the more numerous English in
South Africa In race but not in religion.
In Cape Colony and Natal they have fused
with the English in politics, and in the
Orange Free State the two races get along
tegether perfectly we'll. In the Transvaal
recent wars and the masterful spirit Of
President Kruger have kept alive IL Is
said. and stimulated expiring anlmosities.
The unjustifaole Jameson raid arrested
the movement toward perfect fusion not
only In the Transvaai but also in the rest
OF South Africa. Cecil Rhodes had 70 a
large extent united the Dutch with the
English In favor of federation anywhere
except in the Transvaal. when DIR. Jane
sons indiscreet act put the fat In the
fire" for a time. But the conviction that
South Africa must be unified stiIi exists
and gains converts. The logic of events
Is held to prove the necessity for Ii. In
dustrial prosperity cannot come TO that
region until the apprehension of war te-
tween the Transvaal and other states is
removed by voluntary cooperation for
the general welfare.