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apprehension the progressive forces with which 

 she is enveloped in Natal, the Transvaal, Rhodesia, 

 andNyassaland; remembering Johannesburg, where 

 they witnessed a small struggling people succumb 

 to the pressure of capital. With that object-lesson 

 before them they cannot be blamed for scenting 

 danger in "foreign" capital. But the warning of 

 Johannesburg should be rightly interpreted ; only 

 in misinterpretation does danger lie. 



One of the wisest messages ever sent to a young 

 country was that by President lloosevelt, when 

 he warned Australia against the danger of keeping 

 her north unpeopled and undeveloped. Just as 

 Nature abhors a vacuum, so the progressive races 

 will not tolerate fertile tracts of the earth being 

 left undeveloped. If the Boer flag had stood for 

 equal rights for all it would have waved at 

 Pretoria to-day, and Paul Kruger and his suc- 

 cessors would have continued to rule over a 

 country destined to grow into a mighty nation. 

 But it symbolized race prejudice and was 

 hauled down. 



When British people leave their native shores 

 for colonies and young countries, they identify 

 themselves with the interests of those young 

 countries, support their institutions and oppose 

 interference from outside, even from their own 

 mother-land. The cries : '' Australia for the 



