The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1902-04-12
The determination of the American Indian
is Striking Example of
England's Policy.
A Whole Race in the Antipodes Has Been
Swept Out of Existence in
Hundred Years.

WHICH ToWnatran held sway i'll the
earlier period of Virginian settlement,
those of New England have disap-
peared long, long ago. So much civil
ization for the result of British coloni-
zation across the seas.
Let us now cast our eyes upon India.
Language fails to describe what the
devastating and demoralizing results of
British subjugation have been in that
sorely afflicted portion Of the empire.
Long years Of British rule in India
have ended in condition Of things
which it is shocking to contemplate.
Famine, starvation and disease are al
most constant amongst the native pop
ulation Of that country, and year by
year India's condition becomes more
and more deplorable. For long time
the real state Of affairs in India has
been studiously concealed from the
British public at home, but exposure,
sad and sorrowful, has come at last.
The average Britisher was deluded
into the belief that India was a land
of great riches and resources. and that
the native population was better and
happier and more prosperous under
British domination and control than
they ever were under the rule of their
kings, princes and rajahs. The CHASTITY
disclosures of the past few years have
altogether dispelled this illusion, and
we find now that India is the wcrst
governed and it's population the most
deplorably poverty stricken under the
sun.
Come with us from India into south
ern ATTITUDES to the great continent of
Australia. When Cook and other ex-
plorers visited that continent the na-
tive population was known to be a
very numerous one.
determination was begun from the
moment that Englands first batch of
convicts was landed upon the shores of
Australia toward the close of the eigh-
teenth century, and this same attitude
toward the aborigines was continued
all through the greater part of the
nineteenth. until humanity came to
their aid, and philanthropic societies
for their protection were instituted.
But it was then too late. Defamation
had unrestricted sway too long. They
were shot down like kangaroos. moi
soned, even so as to get rid of them
the quicker, and the women were de-
baudhed by the ex-convicts and others
with impunity. Backward and back
ward they were driven into the arid
regions Of the interior; and where are
the remnants of all these tribes to be
found to-day? Almost exclusively in
the northern and northwestern terri
tories. In the extensive state of New
South Wales a mere handful of them
is to he found now; it is likewise the
case in Eastern Queensland: while in
the state of Victoria the few natives
to be found there now are gathered
into compounds at Corranderreck and
one or two other places. In few
years there will be none of them left
i'll that state. The efforts of the Abor-
igines' Protective Society to preserve
the race by civilizing methods were ap-
piled too late, and it is only question
of very few years when the aborig-
inal race of Australia must become
absolutely extinct. So much for Brit
isl "civiliZation" in Australia.
Take, again. the case of Tasmania, a
large island lying less than two hun
dred miles from the Australian sea-
board. Tasmania was inhabited by
the same race Of black men as Aus
tralia. Like those of the race on the
Australian continent, they led no.
madic life, and were happy in their
isolation. Britain took possession of the
island and began dumping down her
convicts upon it shortly after New
South Wales became a penal station
for the overflow of British jails. The
same process Of determination, outrage
and lawlessness toward the aborigines
at once set in; and what is the revolt
ing record? That just about quarter
Of a century ago the last Tasmanian