THE DRY FARMING CONGRESS. 



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"Kept as an outlet for the over-crowded nations of the old world, 

 kept for the courageous and enterprising who desired to be free of their 

 cramped environments, kept primarily for those of British blood, but open 

 to all with whom the Anglo-Saxon can mix. Kept and to be kept as a 

 white man's land. The term 'White Australia' is no more a political cry. 

 It was first used by Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, 

 who grasped the great ideal, and now it has sunk in the hearts of the 

 people, with steadfast determination that we will keep our land from 

 race demxoralization, from those alien and inferior races who would lower 

 our moral tone, our industrial conditions and would sooner or later give 

 us a problem to deal with — the danger of which we may dimly forsee, but 

 can not at present measure. For soonep or later the admission of a race 

 of an inferior moral code, strained by sensual vices will create a cleft 

 in society, that will shake it to its foundation. 



"Therefore, at the loss perhaps of worldly wealth, of a more speedy 

 development of our resources, we say to those races, 'We impose no head 

 tax, we make no charge on your coming, but we bar you absolutely from 

 entrance into Australia.' 



"But to those races no matter from where they come, who can 

 fulfill the same social and industrial conditions as ourselves whom wo 

 can take to our homes, with whom our children can safely associate, 

 and later on intermarry, no matter from where you come, come and 

 welcome, we receive you with open arms. 



"We are permeated by an idealism, not so much to have a rich 

 country, but a happy one, living in comfort and in peace. We desire to 

 give an equality of opportunity and a square deal to every man. In all 

 Australia I do not think you could find as many millionaires as you 

 could count on your fingers. 



"We have a land in which any product can grow. From which every 

 mineral can be produced. We have raised gold to the value of 2,500,- 

 000,000 dollars, and today produce one-third of the world's yield. We 

 have great coal formations, the northern coal beds of New South Wales 

 alone covering an area of twenty-five thousand square miles, and are 

 estimated to contain one thousand million tons. We have enormous 

 bodies of iron ore, which we are just beginning to develop and a soil that 

 for richness, all over the continent, cannot be surpassed. We want peo- 

 ple, but we do not want them at any price, for we believe that in time 

 the natural attractions and the industrial possibilities of the country, to- 

 gether with the high standing of social, industrial and political life we 

 are seeking to mamtain, will make our country an attraction to immi- 

 grants of the most desirable class. 



Land Laws. 



"Only about one-ninetieth of our land is alienated or subject to alien- 

 ation. Our land laws are most liberal. Land can be had in various ways, 

 by the fee simple, or by lease, and in areas sufficient to make a living 

 on, raising from one hundred and sixty to two thousand five hundred acres 

 — with right to get the free hold to many thousands of acres under leas- 



