The Republican journal., 1908-11-12

Another advertiser heads his announce
ment with these lines:
THE HAND-CLAsP.
The kangaroo and Eagle now
In amity have met,
And may the band of friendship be
Drawn tight and stronger yet.
The brave bows of the White Fleet will
A. Saunders grand shop see,
And long the memory will remain
Wherever they may be.
And there is another advertisement IN
rhyme:
Uncle sam gallant tars feel o. Il.
tThanp7 their lives when ashore are most gay
It's that grand liver Cure,
L.axo-Ionic Pills pure.
Which from them keeps sickness away
Iaxo-Tonic Pills, 105d and l-6-o
The second, third, fourth and fifth pages
carry display advertising, miscellany and
news matter, and among the advertise
7npnts we notice one of Ayers Sarsapa-
7.illa. which is advertised the world over.
On the sixth page is the editorial and cable
news. The ''leader" expressing the
sentiments toward this country will be
read with interest and is given in full as
follows:
FAREWELL!
The end is at hand; tomorrow morning
our visitors become in one short week
friends as we'll as guests -Will set their
orest white ships in motion, and once
more nut out to sea. And it may be said
with certainty that never before have the
citizens of Sydney been so 10th to part
with the representatives OF any nation
that have visited New South Wales.
Prior to their arrival there We're perhaps
speculative doubts existing as to whether
Australians and Americans would alto
gether fraternise and take to- each
Other. All such doubts nave long vanish
ed Blood has once more proved stronger
thar water: and the claims of a common
ancestry have been triumnhantly demon
strataC!. AS Admiral Sperry so eloquent
" nut it the other night, there is. after
all, no overcoming the facts OF the ties
of common blood. of common Christianity
and of thousand and one ties of inter
marriage ties which are stronger
than steel. and more numerous than we
know of. Truer words than these were
never spoken; and as the days passed,
and the TWO peoples began to know each
other more intimately, their truth has
been abundantly made manifest. BY
their invariable courtesy their modest
and unassuming bearing, and their splen-
did behaviour generally, the men of the
Fleet have endeared themselves to the
people of New South Wales in very
high degree indeed. We gave them of
our best and they have proved themselves
in every respect worthy of the very best
we could offer them. you've done us
proud" they say; and our reply now is
that with US lies the pride, because they
have borne themselves in such wise as to
deserve even more than we did for them.
Other visitors We have had, and received
with feasting and music and lllumlnatlons
and banners, and every appropriate out
ward ceremony. But, although honorng
them in such fashion, and displaying our
esteem for them, the people OF this State
never felt the same sentiment of friend
Ship and the desire to improve upon it
that has been the prevailing feature with
regard TO our present guests.
And this is where the common tie'
comes in. Just for little while, per-
haps, We were inclined to view these
vourg enlisted men-citizens Of the great
Republic though they might be-as some
what in the light OF foreigners. Then,
when we found on closer approach, that
they We're to all intents and purposes
replcas of ourselves-Anglo SaXons of
the pest brand-we took them to our
hearts, and greeted them, not as stran-
gers in a strange land, but as a distin-
guished portion of the family. A por-
ton. 100, from which we had been for
overriding separated. And, to do them
Justice, our newly -discovered brethren
were not slow to reciprocate; they have
shown themselves able to cheerfully
second any efforts made in their behalf;
thew have revealed mutual interest IN
our sports and pursuits; they have IN
every possible way received our advances
in the spirit in which they were offered
them. And to this ready and adequate
response on their side is due in great
measure the undoubted success, not only
of the national welcome, but Of engen-
dering those deeper and more permanent
sentiments of racial sympathy and re-
spect, and even of affection, which we
think has Individually been the case.
From the time that the battleships
entered the harbor, and throughout the
long round of subsequent festivities, 1T
has been increasingly apparent that our
visitors, from their admlrals and captains
down to the smallest boy on the ships,
felt themselves at home. Not, of course,
in the sense of being among their own
folk. but still among people who were
akin to them. who We're more than
pleased to see them, and about the
warmth and sincerity Of whose feelings
towards them there could be no mistake.
And the fact of this being so is crafty
ing in the extreme. Australians are
very far from being demonstrative
people; they are, indeed, on the contrary,
given to aloofness, not to say stolidlty. But
it must be confessed that on this occasion
they have come out Of their shell in
most surprising manner. 1t was the
common tie' that effected the trans
formation. Had our friends stayed with
us much longer one of two things would
have happened. Either they would have
Americanized US or we should have
Australianized them. We can pay neither
them nor ourselves any higher compli-
ment. In the southern city to which
they are now bound they may, perhaps,
receive a more imposing reception.
Nevertheless, they may rest content IN
the sincere assurance that they carry
with them from Sydney and the. mother
State a whole-hearted amount OF regard
and appreciation that can never be sur
passed elsewhere.
The two papers received are filled with
accounts of the arrival and the departure
of the fleet, of the festivities attending
the visit and the many receptions to the