The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-09

from the sea and not far from the mel
lifluously named Wagga Wagga Of the
Tichborne trial fame.
According to clause 1875 OF the Constl-
tuition of the Commonwealth, the seat OF
Government
Shall be within territory which shall have been
granted to, or acquired by the Commonwealth
Such territory shall contain an area OF not
less than one hundred square miles and such portion
thereof as shall consist OF Crown lands shall be
granted to the Commonwealth without any pay
mcnt therefor, The Parliament shall sit AT Mel.
bourne until 1t meet a, the sea, Of Government"
AT Tumut men of taste and great ideas
are TO be called upon to design a city of
magnificent distances and splendid archi-
tectural features. All buildings, public
or private, are to be adapted to uniform
scheme, and the space set apart for
dwellings, is to be laid out as veritable
garden of delight. As the fee simple OF
all lands is to be retained by the Common
wealth in perpetuity, the bugbear of the
unearned increment will be unknown.
Nor shall the vested interest raise its
horrfic head. II is even proposed that
the liquor traffic shall be in the hands of
the State. No more side doors. No Sc
questered saloon to which your modest
citizen may retire to take his quiet
snifter unobserved:
Every public house is TO he open to full in
spec,ion from the highway no screens or par,l-
tons are TO be used"
Poor Trust is dead Even the time
honored slate must CO.
Sales OF liquor on credit are to be abolished"
As for that seductive siren, the female
bartender, she must seek forthwith for
other outlets for her energy. No more
the jocund flute shall cheer the reveller
and lure him on to skittles:
NO advcn,iIous attractions. such as music. &c.
are 10 be associated with the sale Of ntoxicants."
A choice site will doubtless be reserved
for National Theatre devoted TO the
interests Of the kangaroo drama and
combining itself to the works of native
authors. High on commanding hill
will be installed the apparatus of the
National Rain Maker with appliances
for projecting hot air into the heavens at
frequent intervals. They shall all be
men of spare habit of body in Tumut
and a girth measurement Of more than
thirty-fve inches shall debar the possess
or from the privileges Of citizenship.
For, in the vocabulary of the antipodean
idealist, any man who owns land or has
business Of his own is a fat man,
and, as such, conspicuous object Of
righteous scorn.
Hail then to Tumut, the terrestrial
Paradsel The vast municipal Abbey
of Theleme in the Land of the Leaping
Kangaroo. Where Youths and madens,
made virtuous by act of Parliament, may
wander innocantly mid howery groves,
while all the air is vocal with the strains
of the melodous Mopoke and the cheer
full chucke Of the kookeburra or Laugh
ing Jackass. Where every adult male
shall choose his own form Of light en-
ployment and work decorously and de
liberately for the Government for $4,000
year. Where the elders shall sit apart
and smoke the pipes Of peace beneath the
spreading eucalyptus tree and draw the
Old Age pension from the flowing foun-
tain of the Federal Treasury,
There are several reasons why AUS
tralia will not Immediately proceed to
realize these pleasing visions. The first
is that she has not got the money. Under
the circumstances the other reasons need
not seriously concern her. Melbourne
is, and will remain, the seat of Federal
Government for several years TO come.