The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1905-05-12
WHITE MANS LAND.
Australia Bars All COl0red Races
and Has Many Unique
Laws.
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world of her native country, was in
Kansas City for few hours re-
Gently. She is on the way to San
Francisco, where she will take ship
for Australia. She had halted in
Kansas City, she said. because it re-
minded her of "home."
1T was something in the air,
something in the rolling. green
field we passed through coming here
from St. Louis that decided me, "
she said. And like your city.
like it better than any other city
in America. Your men are bigger.
The women look more animated.
And. although you seem busy, you
get about in more deliberate way.
But you ought to keep factories out
side city limits. Every city in Aus
tralia does that. We consider the
health and comfort of our people TO
be paramount to the interests of the
factory owners. II is the business
of the nation to see that its people
are vigorous and healthy and well
conditioned.
Australia is a big island CONT
nent. almost as large as the United
States, and its population is not
yet 100000. The country is 1900
miles from England. and 10000 miles
from San Francisco. Ten years ago
nearly every domestic bank in the
country failed. and the great
drought which had lasted nine years
only broke last November.
immigration from England isnot
helping us to open up the country
We are not encouraging it greatly.
One can reach New York from Eu-
rope for $50; the cheapest rate to
Australia is about $3.50. We abso-
lutely bar out Chinese, japanese and
practically all colored people. In
the far northern countries, where
the sugar plantations are, they employ
Kanakas from the South seas, but
when the States were united under
the commonwealth, a national act
was passed directing the deportation
of the Kanakas within six years. 1t
may reduce the planters profits, but
there is firm determination to
make Australia all white white
mans country and every other con-
sideration must give place to it.
Now" she continued, my views
are extreme. am by no means an
aggressive Socialist. They coincide
with those of the great bulk of the
people. You see, our conditions are
so different from those in the Unit
ed States. In Australia the States
and not private companies own all
the railroads. The trolley lines are
all owned or in course of being own
ed by the municipalities. Most of
the electric lighting plants are mu-
nicipal property. Water supply and
irrigation are State concerns. All
postal, telegraph and telephone bus
mess are national monopolies. Judges
are appointed for life, paid high sal
aries and receive ample pension on
retirement. They take no part in
politics. The Police Department is
a State affair. Policemen are APP
pointed for life promoted by senior
ity and merit and pensioned on re-
tirement by means of endowment
policies. They are prohibited from
taking any part in politics and they
never infringe that rule. The head
of the department is never political.
He is civil servant, appointed for
life.
MANY of our laws probably inter-
fere with private enterprise, but the
burglar is always enterprising and
usually quite private, and he objects
with equal reason to laws limiting
his activity. The burglar is a pub
lie enemy who renders no service in
return. But so, we think, is the
employer who pays sweating wages
or compels men and women to work
unreasonably long hours or employs
little children. And so every State
in the commonwealth hasits factory
act, limiting the hours of labor, fix
ing the minimum wage and presrrib-
ING sanitary conditions, Four out