The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-04-20
AUSTRALIA.
Gray end Monotonous, but Vast, Pa
tiont and Fascinating.

tiert and Fascinating.
Australia Is In itself monstrous
continent It IS as large as the United
States; its 100000 Of people are scat
tered In narrow fTlnge along the
streams and shores OF the southern
and eastern seaboard The vast iptc-
rior-'the dead heart OF Australia"-a
region as large as the Mississippi val
ley. Is trackless. rainless waste of
sand and alkGli. while the intervening
hills. the bush and scrub. are scantily
occupied by sheep stations and by min
Ing camps. Tho vast north OF Austria
Tia is In part a tropical jungle. In pars
q blistering Sahara. The fates denied
70 Australia the gift of high noun
Saina to catch the snow and hold the
water: hence her rivers are few and
precarlous; hence at too frequent inter
vals The great drought comes, AND the
desert spreads its smotherlng arms,
crowding man and his dependents
backward toward the sea II IS a mo
notonous country IN It's physical as-
poets. The forests on hill, valley. rock
and swamp are an OF one pattern
eucalyptus. eucalyptus. the gray trunks
OF the gum trees Of many species as
sar nc the eve can see. without noun
talns aud streams there Is little room
for variety. 1t Is monotonous In It's
Industries cattle, sheep. horses It's
one fine art The breeding OF the per.
fect Merino sneep. II Is monotonous IN
It's towns. one story light brown,
With unpalnted roof OF corrugated iron,
Is the description Of nine tenths o. tho
| Australian homes. Corrugated lion
means clean rain water. and Australia
can afford 10 waste none OF &C. II 10
| monotonous as to population The Eng
/ dshmen came srst TO Australia. aud
they are still holding It against an
comers The way Is made rough for
immigrants who do not speak English
and for well or III IN many ways foi
sach-the rnllug minority. the labor
vote. IS sternly set on "whlte Austria
la.r with all which it imples The
history Of Australia Is monotoaous. Il
ontains the story Of hard struggles
Of bitter sufferings, deserved and un
deserved; Of lawless courage and reck
ess bravery, but tlre causes served
we're individual. Australians nevei
had common enemy. and their rec
)rds show no glorious war and no up
Using Of common feeling Tho achieve
nents OF Australia belong 20 the cate
cory OF individual deeds Of peace.
With all this the color OF Australia
is gray; the land. the towns, the spir,
" her people. Her literature has {
sober touch. and this difference n
tone shows itself IN its way IN th'
life OF the universities. IL America
MS IN Brownlng's verse. the flower o
lfe IS rcd" Thp American studen
Knows that "the world Is his oyster
ao knows that "he can get what I
soming 70 him." that iu proportion {
his talents. his training, his sobrlet.
and persistency Of purpose VIII be hi
success IN any affair he undertakes.
But though Australia may he gra.
aud monotonous she is vast. patient
Fascinating. The mightlness OF th
land TO be conquered, the huge roomi
ness OF the continent. the vlstns OF ia
iure national greatness, all these grow
on one. and nll these find their renei
IN the student life and IN the rislnl
literature Of the commonwealth Tha
Australia viii be the birthplace o
great men in the future no one cal
doubt Their coming VIII not be du
TO the lopsided political administrator
nor 10 state ownership nor 10 the cod
ding Of the laborcr but to the persist
ence OF her fine old English stock ur
der man making and man inspirin
~ditionE. David Starr Jordan in Ap