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THE HISTORY OF THE MONTH. 



Shabby 

 Disloyally. 



Melbourne, October 30th, 1912. 

 Sydney's cup of indignation at the 

 e\-iction of the Governor-General 

 from Federal Government House 

 is still running over. Nothing has 

 stirred Sydney people .so much for many a day. 

 Outside of Parliament it has been difficult to find 

 anyone anxious to excuse the McGowen Go\ernment 

 for their .shabby dislovalty. whik- from one end of 

 the State t<5 the other jiublic disgust has been \'oiced 

 in the press, in the street and on the platform. The 

 jialtry plea of expense has .served only to fan the 

 tlame of luiblii' indignation, and if such an arrange- 

 ment couUl ha\e saved the situation numbers of 

 private citizens would have cheerfully subscribed 

 tiic money rather tlian experience the hirfniliation 

 that is generally sliared. Everylwdy is aware of the 

 fact that there is a nondescri})t element in Australia 

 wkich professes contempt for the links which 

 liiud this country to Kngland and Empire. Tlie 

 action of the New South Wales Goxernment is the 

 lirst indication of the fact that there is a political 

 jiarfy in an\ State strong enough to attempt to 

 snap one of these links, and the country has teen 

 startled by the knowledge. Nobody will interpret 

 this to mean that New South Wales as a State wishes 

 to .set the fashion in disloyalty. Tlie magnific<'nt 

 wnd-off to Ix)rd and Lady Denman when they took 

 their farewell of Cibvernment House, in Sydney, was 

 <:heering evidence to the contrary. It was indeed 

 -I triumphant vindication of the fact that the loyalty 

 of the citizens of the mother State had been scan 

 dalouslv betrayed by a majority of tiieir ix>litical 

 repre.sentatives for party purpos<.'S. It was no less 

 a w.irning to the McGowen Government that tliey 

 would be called to account concerning this matter 

 when the time came- for the electors to give their 

 verih'-r \l<-.(invhile file tide of indignation is rising. 



aud before tlie next State elections are over the 

 M(.-Goweii Government may find that they have had 

 to pay dear!\ toi their foolish and niggardly dis- 

 loya]t\. 



The King's 

 Wishes. 



.\ new and rather sensational de- 

 \elopment of the Sydney Govern- 

 ment House trouble has served to 

 further complicate matters for Pre- 

 mier Met 'idweii. It has been authoritatively stated 

 by the daily press that as s<X)n as the first news 

 of the New South Wales (jovernment's intentions 

 reached England, before Lord Denman's departure 

 for Australia last year, his Majesty the King ex 

 pressed a very definite \iew ,is to the desirability of 

 retaining Government House, Sydney, as a resi 

 deuce for the Governor General. His Majesty, it 

 is recorded, further ga\'e e.\])rt-ssion to his desire to 

 visit Australia at an early ojjportunity, and to use 

 tiovernment Hou.se as .i residence during his stay 

 in New South Wales. 'I'liest,' \ic\\s, it is assertoil, 

 were communicated to the State Government. .\n 

 the Sydney Morning Herald points out, the King 

 rarely interferes in the domestic concerns of his 

 over-seas Dominions: "In this instance h<: has 

 thought it right to reoonl his ojiinion on a matter 

 affecting his representative in the Commonwealtii. 

 and, contingently, himself. The unprecedented re 

 fusal of a liritish Government to accede to his de 

 sires in such a ca.se becomes, therefore, an act ol 

 direct disloyally. The camjiaign against the evic 

 tion of Ix)rd Denman \vill now receive an addfi! 

 impetus, and .i still more potent justification. h 

 has been plain that the people of New South Walts 

 were not willing to deny courtesy and hospitality 

 to the chief representati\<- of the King in the < 'oni 

 monwoalth. They cert.iinly iXo not desire to fluni 

 the wishes of his Majesty himsell." 



