Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-04-15
LONDON THE COLOSSAL
A City That Is Lumberingly too
Large.
Some Discourse Upon Countries and
Their CnpitnIs-Australin Trying 10
Obviatc the Evils of Ovcrween-
ing Size, In Choosing site
For Her Central City.

and canvassing has at last decided on
site for the capital of the commonwealth.
Perhaps no one in this ountry ever heard
OF Yass or Canberra, the Australians
are not likely to be stirred by the
| clumsy compound of Yass-C anberra SAYS
SFoncy Brooks. in the London Chronicle.
The government. having discovered a.
capital. will now have to find suitable
name for it,
The next question la
What is to be the capital Of the r-nito1
South Africa of the future9 That is one
| OF the problems that the national con.
vention now sitting at Cape Town will
tackle. and If It Is wise, will find soma
means of shelving. The delegates from
the Cape will not listen to any othe,
site but Cape Town. The delegates frou
the Transvaal are equally insistcnt on
T'rotoria. Between them the struggle
lies; and when both combatants are ex-
hausted and n deadlock has been reached
the delegates from the Orange River
Colony look forward to putting in a per-
suasive word on behalf of Bloemfonten.
Nhen number Of separate States,
each more or less equal in population.
wealth and Importance and revolving
around no common and dominant center.
agree to form single political whole.
they usually find the question Of cap
ital one Of the most crucial and conten-
irons that they are called upon to solve.
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HISTORY is repeating itself with curious
carefulness. Tho passions and rivalrie,
mat have bean stirring Australia for the
pas' SIX years and that are stirring
south Africa to-dar are H.. same pos-
sions and riva'rios that one hundred AMI
elehteHn years ago novel Americans r.
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. Let no one THINK II IS a small matter,
even III these days OF rapid travelling,
Were nation fixes It's capital. The size.
position. character and Influence of the
metropolis profoundly AFFECT tn" develop
> mont of It's hi0torland. one never thinks
OF France without also Thinking Of Paris,
., and England would J." Immensely differ
u ont, and possibly ip1men9ey improved X
London Woro a tenth If its present bulk.
p London and WASHINGTON. indovf, may
" stand as extreme oX0n'i les 90 two type,
c of capitals. and it is exceedingly inter-
ostinR 10 note that the new nations that
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- ana not the English lead
do not say thev are wrong London
Is far too big for England. II levies
ton on English life that distinctly lower
" he national vitality. II more than DON'T.
e mates the courtry' II drains II; il turns
e the provinces into little moro thar 4