. Essays and addresses on the Australian Commonwealth Bill . tbe inter-statecommission. I have not mentioned the good clauses of the 117 bill ; for I know that we have secured those clauses, absolutely,whether this amended bill be accepted or not. They will besure to re-appear in any scheme of federation to be put beforethe people of Australia. I know now that federation is assuredin the near future, whether this bill becomes law or not. Ihave the pleasure of knowing that the delay of this past yearhas made tbe bill better; and the pleasure of knowing, also, thatif circumstances should render
. Essays and addresses on the Australian Commonwealth Bill . tbe inter-statecommission. I have not mentioned the good clauses of the 117 bill ; for I know that we have secured those clauses, absolutely,whether this amended bill be accepted or not. They will besure to re-appear in any scheme of federation to be put beforethe people of Australia. I know now that federation is assuredin the near future, whether this bill becomes law or not. Ihave the pleasure of knowing that the delay of this past yearhas made tbe bill better; and the pleasure of knowing, also, thatif circumstances should render further delay necessary, we shallhave a still better bill. Time and thought are working for and pedantry and provincialism are being lifted like aheavy mist by the sun ; and I have hope that before long weshall see a true federation of all Australian people, not marredby distinctions of states in Australian concerns, but whole andcomplete like Australia itself, and to last as long as round her, indivisible, the sea,Breaks on her single Manifesto of the DemocraticFederal Union. On the 20th June, 1899, the electors of New South Walesaccepted the Commonwealth bill, as amended at the Premiersconference, by 107,420 cotes to 82,741. Inasmuch as the bill hudbeen improved at the confeience, and as Victoria had acceptedthe bill without amendment by a huge majority, it was hopelessnow to organise opposition in Victoria; and little or no activeefforts were made by those who desired further the following manifesto was issued by the DemocraticFederal I nion, in answer to manifestoes published by advocatesof the bill in the news columns of the Age and the Argus newspapers. It was submitted lo both newspapers for publi-cation in a similar manner; but both refused it, and it had tobe inserted in the Age as an advertisement.
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