Leave Natives Alone
p. 27 · Read in the full issue
For a While!
Letter to the Editor Quidnuncs abound with “solutions” for the welfare of the natives of the Territories.
My idea is that, except for health mea sures, they ought to be left alone for a while, definitely.
Native societies have reached the stage when they are sick at heart; and, as “defeat comes from within,” their future, I think, is not too rosy.
Development of native lands, by Euro peans, may in some circumstances mean the envelopment of the natives them selves. This is a danger which has to be guarded against.
The Territories will not support other than a sprinkling of Europeans. The Territories will always require to be “nursed,” being the Commonwealth’s “unwanted babies.”
The natives, generally, only will sur vive if they are understood intelligently.
I am, etc.,
Brisbane.