'The foregoing reminds me that 'Theodore, the half-Slav Premier of Queensland, has just returned in mph to' Austvalia, after having visited London, answered the aecusations that Inbour repudiated its contacts, and converted some £12,000, 000 of loan money. fresh loans Theodore is marked dos n ay the future Lab-jour Prime Minister of Australis and he is undoubtedly one of the she.|ext and most capable men that Labour polities have produced, Theodore many be a red-r exer, but no-one can point the finger " and} prove that. His Labour declare him a traitor to th and he replies, "Well, set anoth Tador." The fact seems to be that they cannot do without him. Fixes quite a lot of alleged social {iy amongst his actual adminissr tion, and seems to know that if he tts a government butcher's shop his political opponents will " werrs' {about it and moke se much fuse that much more important movements are overlooked. While a few the sind pounds were lost in Socialisic experiments Mr. Theodore was busy organizing the very protestors themselves into what looked like self-o cerning bodier, controlled or rather Joverlooked and financed by govern: ment, Thus we have wheat, butter, maize, sugar and other pools. All these might be private enterprise but the government has its hand all the time'on the safety-valve of tin-tee, "Private enterprise can rail as tuch as I likes, but the Queensland about Where the result impinges up Federal polities is in the counsels of the Country party. There it must bbe decided whether the cold comfort of not having lost seats is to be accepted as evidence that this new and ambitious party is calculated to ome one of the parties in Australia, "Thus the result of the Victorian elections is likely to be that the hostile Victorians will realize that they cannot stand alone, and will therefore endorse the Bruce-Page Pret, tone may +¢e the sin Parliament of the Prime Minister satisfied that their future is clear, and with that clarity will come greater cohesion in the House of Representatives, and a united front to Labour at the end of the life of the current Parliament.
Lessons of an Election, The recent Victorian State el tions will change the ideas of ma people, more particularly those liv= wg in the country. The latter have always contended that they form each scuttered communities, and have xo few opportunities to list to the words of wisdom of politi cians. What with floods, droughts, pests and bad roads to contend with, (to say nothing of their long how of work) they have not the same hope of casting their votes as the ty man. In th teresting to note that while per cent, of the cuintyy voters polled, only: 54 per cent. of those envolled'within the metropolis went (o the booths. It was also shown that despite the increase of population in Melbourne and suburbs number of Labovy voters previous clectinn, had not very greatly but certainly decreased. So it seems that, if a section of the Press and a few Lifeadily making it take a hand in establishing the socialistic organization which he has ever] before him.
One cannot necessarily think he is right but his Policy was policy ix one which makes the copie think he ix right." When he rex the State for the more cliff.
Federal sphere he may have fceasion to recall the. Lineain ram concerning the fooling of all the people all the: time.
1 The Banking Bill, thus ben Htrodueed, and ie note The lone-promised Banking Bill
der discussion in the House of Re presortatives: Those something very new and drastic are disappointed, while the Labour Op-{position is opposed to the measure because they think they see in it a attack upon what they consider the reatest success of their political career, namely the Conimonsealth Bank.' After all the chief proposal is that the Bank shall in future. be governed by a Board, instead of by tone man. The Opposition sees in this 1 proposal to place the bank in the hands and under the control of capitalists, instead of keeping it a "people's bank" whatever that may. mean, They say the Board will not he subject to ministerial control, which is about the last thing any one wants. They say that the members of the Board are sure to be interest.
in other banks and therefore make it their business gradually to suppress the Commonwealth Bank. 'They admit that it hus not fought the private banks as they had hoped it would, but has simply been made A money-making machine, and as 3 alternative they suggest' that the Board, if there must he one, should he comprised of financial experts wholly in the employ of the ban} The Notes Issue Board is to be
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