THE COLONIES AS A HOME. 243 



To young active men, possessed of pluck and 

 average brain power, and with an aptitude for work, I 

 say, *' Make your home in the Colonies, by all means/* 



When there are thousands more homes in Australia 

 she will be the richer. Work comes with population. 

 It is lack of population creates an ^^ unemployed.'* 

 Every man added to a community makes work for 

 some other man. 



Australia, like other countries, suffers from un- 

 principled agitators who fatten upon the working men 

 they befool with their sophistry. The real Labour 

 party in the Colonies are the men who build up the 

 country's future by work, not the men who mouth 

 and rave and draw their means of subsistence from the 

 workmen's funds. 



We do not pay doctors to give bad advice, why 

 should these labour agitators, whose remedies are 

 worse than the diseases they propose to cure, be feed 

 heavily ? 



It is not the sporting proclivities of the Australians 

 that is their ruination, it is the idle worthless ranters 

 miscalled labour leaders. I am not alluding to the 

 Labour Members. As a whole they are a sensible 

 body of men and do good for their cause in a 

 legitimate way. 



In this book of fragments nothing has been over- 

 drawn. I have jotted down, from memory alone, 

 nearly the whole of the contents. If there are slight 



