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<date>1901-05-22</date>
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<para>House ofRepresentatives. </para>
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<day.start>1901-05-22</day.start>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker</inline>took the Chair at 2.30 p.m. </para>
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<inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Piesse</inline>presented a petition from 1,367 citizens of Tasmania, praying that the Post-office might not be used for the facilitation of gambling. </para>
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<title>DISTRIBUTION OF HANSARD.</title>
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<para>- I wish to ask the Prime Minister if, when he is making arrangements for the distribution of <inline font-style="italic">Hansard,</inline> he will see that a copy is forwarded to ouch member of the various State Parliaments. </para>
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<para>- While the Address in Reply remains unvoted upon, it is the ordinary parliamentary usage that the Government should not indulge in any other business. </para>
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<para>- That is not the universal usage. </para>
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<para>- It is not the universal usage, but it is the ordinary usage. It is the practice of the House of Commons, and of the Legislatures of several of the States ; and I should be sorry to break in upon it in this Parliament unless I had a distinct authorization from <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker</inline> to do so. While saying that, may I inform the honorable member that I shall do everything that is necessary and liberal in connexion with the distribution of <inline font-style="italic">Hansard.</inline></para>
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<para class="block">Address in Reply. </para>
<para>Debate resumed from May, 21st(vide page 116), upon motion by <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. W.</inline> H. Groom - </para>
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<para>That the following Address in Reply to the speech of His Excellency the Governor-General be now adopted : - </para>
<para class="block">May it please Your Excellency - </para>
<para>We, the House of Representatives of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia, in Parliament assembled, beg to express our loyalty to our Most Gracious Sovereign, and to thank Your Excellency for the gracious Speech which you have been pleased to address to Parliament. </para>
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<para>- Philosophers tell us that in arriving at a judgment everything depends upon the point of view. If we view the speech which has been put into the mouth of His Excellency the GovernorGeneral as a political pronunciamento, we may and should offer our heartiest congratulations to the Ministry upon it ; but, if we look to it for a fair indication of the intentions of the Government with regard to the session upon which we have just entered, it seems to me that we can characterize it only as more or less of a farce, and as not in accordance with what Governors' speeches usually are, or ought to be. The youngest member of the House yesterday claimed for the Government that itwas a Government composed of all the premiers, though, he was careful to add, not of all the talents. The honorable gentleman, while saying that his side of the House monopolized all the liberalism, might have gone on to say that it also monopolized all the titular distinctions and all the political principles held within the political domain of the Commonwealth. We have in the Governor-General's speech an enumeration of the whole of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Constitution. Whether the Government intend to carry out this programme in its entirety remains to be seen ; but before they can carry it out they will be very much older, and we, I hope, shall be very much wiser. The programme set forth in the Governor-General's speech contains everything that the most ardent politician could desire ; but the speech is disappointing because of its vagueness and indefiniteness, and because it does, not tell us what it is proposed to do immediately - what are the urgent measure's referred to in it. The speech is a sort of drag-net, thrown out to catch all sorts and conditions of politicians, and I have no doubt that, if the Government can maintain the vague and indefinite attitude which they have hitherto assumed regarding their proposals, they will succeed in their object. We expected to hear something definite from the Premier last night concerning the intentions of the Government ; but he left us only as wise as we were before. We still want to know what it is proposed that we shall do immediately. We want to know what the Government propose to do, and what they will leave over for some future time. They cannot hope to delude the House into the belief that they expect to carry into effect all the reforms mentioned in the speech, and they cannot believe that they could do so.' They say that the policy which they have outlined may not be carried into effect in a single session. I should think not. But we have a right to know what are the measures which they expect to pass during this session, and what are the measures which they regard as of immediate importance. </para>
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<para>- We shall pass them all if honorable members opposite will help us. </para>
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<para>- Wo shall help the right honorable member to the best of our ability. </para>
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<para>- - Honorable members opposite will do what they can for themselves first. </para>
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<para>- We are bidden not to look into the verbiage of the speech, and I do not pretend to be scholar enough to criticise its language, even if I were disposed to do so. But I should like to point out that a speech which professes to be the perfection of literary accuracy- </para>
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<para>- Who says that it is <inline font-style="italic">1</inline></para>
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<para>- We were told so last night by the Prime Minister. </para>
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<para>- I did not say that of it. </para>
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<para>- The right honorable member at any rate suggested it very strongly. </para>
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<para>- T was told that it was not the Queen's English, and to that remark I replied that if it was not the Queen's English it was the King's English.. </para>
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<page.no>170</page.no>
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<para>- Is it the King's way of speaking of Australian penny postage to refer to it as universal penny postage, or are the powers, pretensions, and intentions of this Government so mighty that they are going to give us a universal penny postage system ? If they think so, I atn afraid that they intend to do very much more than is within the domain of practicability. If they arn going to fight for a penny postage system all over the world, they will have to give up the Monroe-like doctrine which was enunciated by the honorable member for Corio last night. </para>
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<para>- To establish universal penny postage requires only the assent of a postal conference to certain resolutions - and the money. </para>
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<para>- Of course, it is the simplest thing in the world. After five or six years' experience in connexion with postal matters, I know what a simple matter it is. All that you have to do is to say that it is to be done, and done it will be. The Minister of Defence knows how easy it will be to establish a penny postage all over the world. It is only one of the many things which this Government are going to do. Then, we -are told in the speech that our labours will be watched with interest throughout the civilized world. I have no doubt that they will be followed with interest by a few political students here and there ; but I fear that the great bulk of the people of the civilized world will still know very little about Australia and its doings. The speech is full of beautiful rhetoric, upon which the Government may be heartily congratulated. But may I ask the Premier one question in reference to the paragraph regarding the islands of the Pacific. The speech says that the Ministers - </para>
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<para>Have taken such steps as seem to them prudent for the protection of Australian interests in this regard. </para>
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<para class="block">I should like to know from the right honorable member what steps have been taken. I do not want him to go into particulars concerning delicate matters of negotiation with the Home Government, but I think that we are entitled to know what are the broad features of the political problems which relate to the South Sea Islands. I think we might have from time to time very much fuller statements regarding these problems than the bare paragraphs which we have hitherto seen in the press. </para>
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<para>- So soon as I can, without detriment to the proper consideration of the question, I shall make a full statement. </para>
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<para>- I think one honorable member should be allowed to complete his speech before another honorable member replies to him. </para>
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<para>- I thought that it would be convenient to make that explanation, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker.</inline></para>
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<para>- We know very little about these islands. We do not know nearly so much, about them as we shall know very speedily now that we have a stronger and more powerful Government than we have had before to deal with such questions. In the old country blue books are periodically published, which, while they do not enter into the <inline font-style="italic">minutia</inline> of the negotiations carried on in regard to foreign affairs, do indicate particularly and generally the effects of such negotiations, and set forth as fully as may be the problems which lead to them. I hope we shall have something in Australia which will indicate the broad outlines of the problems we have to face, and give us at the same time such information about them as is consistent with public safety and the public interest generally. I have already said that the speech is a very comprehensive one. There is a little bit in it for every one. All the colonies are consulted - as perhaps they ought to be - in a truly federal spirit. There are plums for every colony in the group. There is the question of oldage pensions, which was put forward during the elections in order to appeal to those smaller colonies that have not yet adopted such legislation for themselves. There is the proposal for the construction of the transcontinental line, intended, no doubt, to obtain Western Australia's sanction and approval. I have yet to learn that there has been any definite pledge to Western Australia, such as the speech would seem to indicate, that this line shall be built. </para>
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<para>- The honorable member's leader is very much in favour of it, at any rate. </para>
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<para>- Is he? Since when ? </para>
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<para>- Yes, he is. </para>
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<para>- We are all in favour of it some time. But when? We know that it will not cost less than four or five millions of money; and we are waiting to hear tangible reasons for its construction. There are, for instance, two reasons urged in favour of the line at present. One of these is that we want the line constructed for strategical reasons, an argument that appeals very strongly tom}7 belligerent friend, the Minister for Defence. The other reason is that we want to facilitate the passage of our mails from England. It seems to me that neither of these reasons is sufficiently urgent to induce us to rush into the expenditure of this money until the finances of the Federation are upon a much more satisfactory footing than they now appear to be. </para>
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<para>- The honorable member is going back a bit. </para>
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<para>- Of course I am going back; I am going back to common sense upon the matter. As to the reason regarding defence, it may be wise at some time to provide this money for the construction of the railway for strategical reasons; but that time is certainty not yet. There is no burning urgency that we know of for the construction of the line for the purpose of transporting soldiers from one end of the continent to the other. There could not be, unless there was some menace to compel us. I venture to say that there is no such menace at present, while we have the King's navy on our shores ; and I hope it will always remain there as a sign of the solidity and indissolubility of our Empire. While we have the navy here there is no need for alarm and for rushing into the construction of a railway such as this, involving as it does so many millions of money. </para>
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<para>- We were induced to go into the Federation on the promise of it. </para>
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<para>- Regarding the mails, all I have to say is this : If you want your mails landed three or four days earlier than now, all you have to do is appropriate a moiety of the money required for the construction of this trans-continental railway to the quickening of the passage of the boats. For a quarter of the amount you can get your mails landed a week earlier than now. It is all a matter of payment. The line is therefore not a question of moment from the stand-point of mail communication. In fact, there is no urgent reason at all for its construction. However, it seems to be settled that the line will some day be built. It is at present being inquired into. I have no doubt the inquiry will be over such a large area that it will take a long time ; and by the time we come to the consideration of its actual construction, our finances will have finally settled themselves, and will be in a better position than they are at the present time. In one of our generous moods we shall probably authorize the construction of the line from the view point of connecting Western Australia by means of a railway with the other States. But that time is not yet. It seems to me that there is no justification for suggesting, as the speech does, that there has been any compact with Western Australia for the construction of the line as furnishing a motive for that colony entering into the political union. That is a point I take exception to. The speech commits this House to the line, unless it be modified by something that is said or done in this Chamber. This is the first we have heard of any arrangement or bargain with Western Australia that if that State came into the union this line would be constructed for it. Now, leaving the speech for a moment and coming to the criticism of it by the two honorable members who moved and seconded the Address in Reply yesterday, ve know that they were respectively the oldest member, of the House and the youngest. It seems to me to be a most interesting circumstance that these two gentlemen were selected for this duty. We were treated to a very dignified, calm, and weighty utterance from the oldest member. Arching emanating from that honorable member is worthy of the gravest consideration of this House. But he made some rather strange statements in the way of buttressing up and unfolding to the House his belief in the policy of protection. For instance, he told us that the fact that a steel trust had been formed in America with £220,000,000 of capital was an argument in favour of protection. This is the first time I ever heard a man bold enough to say that. </para>
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<para>- He did not use that as an argument for protection. He used the instance as an argument in favour of the advancement of industry in the United States. </para>
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<para>-Under a protective Tariff. I am afraid I cannot follow the analytical mind of the honorable member for Echuca. </para>
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<para>- -The honorable member is misquoting the meaning entirely. </para>
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<para>- If I followed the honorable member aright, his point was that the policy which would give rise to industries of this description must be a good one. </para>
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<para>- I rise to a point of order. The honorable member for Parramatta is entirely misquoting the honorable member for Darling Downs. </para>
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<para>- A misquotation is not a point of order. If the honorable member for Echuca complains of misquotation, at the close of the speech of the honorable member for Parramatta he may explain anything he wishes to explain ; but he should not interrupt. </para>
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<para>- I want honest debate. </para>
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<para>- We have come over to Victoria to learn honest debate ! The honorable member for Darling Downs said, <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Speaker,</inline> that the policy which made possible these huge combinations of industry must necessarily be a good one. </para>
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<para>- I never said so. </para>
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<para>- I shall be glad to sit down if the honorable member will tell us what his point was. The honorable member referred to this gigantic trust as an evidence of the beneficent effects of protection. I* want to say that, in my judgment, there can be no severer condemnation of any policy than that it produces results such as we see in America to-day. What does this combination mean ? It controls under a centralized form of Government half-a-million of the workers of America. One of the baneful effects of a combination of business such as this is that whenever a workman quarrels with his immediate overseer or employer he is black-listed throughout the whole enterprise. The man who works for a steel trust of that description becomes a slave to the trust unless lie is prepared and able to turn his attention to some other form of enterprise. I also want to say this : When a man makes fortymillions of money he is robbing somebody else to do it. He is taking the legitimate fruits of some one else's labour and enterprise. Therefore the enunciation of that fact alone is the most damaging argument one could conceive of against the policy the honorable member supports. But I wonder why the honorable member did not look a little closer into the condition of America, and give us all the effects and advantages arising from the policy of protection to native industries. Why, for instance, did lie overlook the fact, with which a study of American statistics would furnish him, that in the mines and factories of America to-day there are working halfamillion of children between the ages of ten and fourteen years? The true test of any policy is its general effect on the industrial life of the people. </para>
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<para>- How many children are there worKing in mines and factories in England ? </para>
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<para>- None below twelve years of age. No child is allowed to go to work in that free-trade country unless he is twelve years of age, and then only half time. </para>
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<para>- Has the honorable member read the recent report of the Committee on child labour in England ? </para>
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<para>- I have. No child is employed in any of the industrial enterprises of England under twelve years of age. It is a contravention of the " statute law of England if they are, and so far as I know it is not done. </para>
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<para>- Is the honorable member not quarrelling with the factory laws instead of the fiscal policy ? </para>
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<para>- I do not know that I can separate them ; because, according to the dictum of supposed liberalism, factory laws and protection are synonymous. If that be so, you cannot quarrel with the factory laws without quarrelling with protection. It must be so, if they are synonymous ; and I cannot attack the one without attacking the other. May I point to the speech of <inline font-weight="bold">Mr. P.</inline> T. Derham the other day <inline font-style="italic">1</inline><inline font-weight="bold">Mr. Derham</inline> is one of those men who handed in that mysterious document to the Treasurer. </para>
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<para>- The Treasurer has not had any document handed to him. </para>
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<para>- So much for Victorian veracity ! It was stated the other day that, this document had been handed to the Treasurer. If that is not so, I cannot be blamed for believing what appears in your Victorian papers. </para>
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<para>- And that is a blot on Victorian veracity, is it? That remark shows what provincial feeling will do. </para>
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<para>- Then the right honorable gentleman pays no attention to the Victorian papers <inline font-style="italic">1</inline></para>
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<para>- I do not believe all that I. see in the Victorian press any more than I do all that I see in the New South Wales press. </para>
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<para>- I have just had handed to me the newspaper report bearing upon what the honorable member for Darling Downs said about the American Steel Trust. The report bears out exactly what I said. It is wonderful how the press does misreport some people sometimes ! I say that no such tiling is possible in England to-day as has occurred in America. One per cent, of the people in America own 75 per cent, of the total wealth of America. So much for the distribution of the benefits arising from a protective policy in America ! </para>
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<para>- What about Great Britain ? </para>
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<para>- In Great Britain wealth is more widely diffused than in almost any other country in the world to-day. </para>
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<para>- Except America. </para>
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<page.no>173</page.no>
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<para>- Relatively to her wealth, Great Britain has fewer millionaires than any country in the world. </para>
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<para>- Eighty per cent, of the wealth of Great Britain is held by one and a quarter per cent, of the total adult population. </para>