THE COLONIES AS A SOME. 24l 



Few people who have resided abroad for many 

 years care to settle down permanently in the old 

 country again. If a married man, with a young f^imily 

 and a moderate capital, asked my advice, I should 

 strongly urge him to make Australia his home. 



There is more chance there for such a man. 

 Although competition is keen, there is always room 

 for good men. 



Remittance men are the bane of the Colonies. 

 They are no good to themselves or anyone else. They 

 invariably run down everything Colonial, and brag 

 about their connections, who have sent them out in 

 order to get rid of them. It always seems to me the 

 height of ingratitude for a man to run down a country 

 in which he is making a living merely because it is 

 not the land of his birth, and there are hundreds 

 of Britishers who do this. 



England would be badly off without her Colonies, 

 and the Colonies would not get on so well without aid 

 from the mother country. 



In years to come Australia will, no doubt, be a 

 second United States, but there will not be the same 

 anti-English feeling that is unfortunately at times 

 noticeable in America. 



Colonials almost invariably speak of England as 

 *' home." '^ Are you going home ? " is the question 

 asked when a trip to the old country is contemplated. 



With the increased facilities for travelling afforded 



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