Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1922-05-11
PEOPLE ABOLISH SENATE.
Queensland Australia, Without
Upper Legislative Body.

has entered the limehght by be-
coming the first "two chambered
democracy" of the world to abol-
ish it's upper house, is the subject
of the following bulletin from the
National Geographic society:
Australia began it's indepen-
dent career long after the launch
ing of the United States, yet it
has set some examples in the past
In the creation of political ma
chinery, such as the Australian
ballot and universal suffrage,
that America has followed. But
the commonwealth and it's States
have tried other political expert
ments which the great republic
of the West has so far merely
watched from afar. Perhaps the
no senate plan of Queensland
may be grouped, III SO far the
United States is concerned, with
the Australian federal constitu-
nonal referendum and proper.
tional representation.
"Queensland and Australia,
too, for that matter-loses in ap-
parent size because of it's great
distance from us. In reality it is
a huge State, completely dwarf
ing Texas, our largest common
wealth.. Its coast line is more
tha 1900 miles long and is equiv
alent to that of the eastern Unit
ed States from northern Massa-
chusctts down the Atlantic ocean,
around Florida and TO Mobile.
"Smce Queensland is located
i'll the southern hemisphere, its
hot regions are to the north, its
cooler regions to the south. Its
northernmost projection, Cape
York peninsula, may, then, be
compared roughly TO Florida,
though Cape York is much closer
TO the equator. TO be as close to
the equator as Queensland, Flor
ida would have to be showed some
1,2OO miles farther south until
hey West touched the lsthmus of
Panama. II Australia could be
towed 10 our part OF the world,
where we could compare it with
the regions we know, it would
have 10 be turned about so that
the warm regions ~oiia ceres
pond. . If it can be imagined that
This were done and Cape York
placed near the Canal Zone, so
\extensive is the State of Queens
land that it would cover most of
the vast eXpanse of the Gulf of
= Mexico.
Queensland s area is $4,000
square miles. 1t is almost as
great as the combined areas of
all States east of the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers and the west line
OF Pennsylvania, extending from
Maine to Florida.
Naturally, colonization III
Queensland started along its
southern coast, it's mildest region
clnnatically. Thanks to it's noun
tains which parallel the coast, the
climate of the State is not as hot
as its latitude would indicate The
far northern section, however, is
truly tropical and has not been
developed to any great extent. In
the southern and middle sections
are thriving ports and cities. Bris-
bane, the capital, is Il city Of
about l25,0O0 people. The States
population of about 10000 is al
most wholly of British origin.
"The development of the trop-
ical portions OF Queensland has
been slower than that of similar
regions in other parts of the
world because Of the determina-
ton of the citizens OF the State
and of the entire commonwealth
to maintain white Australia. ,
The black and yellow races have
been excluded III recent years,
seme being deported. Not more
than 10000 Of the black aborigi-
nes remain in the State and they
are steadily decreasing in num-
bcrs.
ITO help the development to-
ward Swhite Australia the fed
eral government grants q bounty
on sugar cane raised by white Ia
bor, and "a considerable sugar in
dustry has been built up in the
fertile coast valley Of Queensland.
Over behind its mountains the