Show I Things are In a pretty tough stale In i J the west Australian gold fields A petition peti-tion to the Queen which bears 25000 I signatures and which outstretched would measure nearly a mile In length I nays the west Australian farmers who were tho first settlers have been quite aa cool as were the Tiansvaajcrs In their welcome of newcomers who flocked Into their country after the discovery dis-covery there of rich deposits of gold So those farmers Boerlike enacted a series of laws calculated to l keep the government of the country In their own hands by making the acquirement of political rights extremely difficult If not Impossible to tho golddiggers They acorn to be carrying on things there very much as the Boers ran South Africa and people who have been to Australia agree that those men there who first built their dugouts In the bush arc about as stolid about as mean about as selfish and as unpro I grcssive as any race of white men that I live anywhere In this old world |