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Cargellico [sic] NSW

30 Nov 1917

To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph Castlereagh St Sydney

Sir

The present situation is fraught with perhaps more hopefulness than any since the out break [sic] of the War[.]

The events in Russia have made it possible to come to a very satisfactory arrangement with Japan over Asia[.]

The Japanise [sic] would as emigrants be of little use in Australia because they have little or no stock experience & without this country labour is useless in Australia as stock is our big industry[.]

But in Persia Japan would have the very outlet they want for the kind of Agriculture they excel in[.]

Also from there they could command the Caspian & the oil fields of that region[.]

All this is an aspect that has been over looked by the English Government[.]

They are far to6 [sic] much under the influence of the town industries & of course subtropical agriculture is quite beyond their experience[.]

We having actual experience of sub tropical [sic] & tropical agriculture under condition [sic] that do not make for plantation or semi slave labour are far better in a position to know what is possible & what is not[.]

The settlement on the proper conditions for sub tropical [sic]

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and tropical agriculture on decentralised management under the return to personal responsibility would settle not only our White Australia policy for all this time but look [sic - probably 'lock'] out Aggressive [sic] Prussianism out of the big coming evolution of the industries of India and China[.]

Those two countries have by far the largest reserve of man power & the just arrangements for their industrial expansion into tropical Africa & South America is far more a matter for our experience that [sic] that of Great Britain or even the USA in the latter country they have a large Negro powulau [sic - probably 'population'.]

Now the rural population of India & China very much resents being classed with the Negro[.]

Most of the Imperial troubles in India is because the offic [sic] there have no real undeostanding [sic] of tropical agriculture from the standpoint of the civilisation they only look at all questions from the standpoint of plantation development [sic.]

The tropical agriculture is to be a place where the white man makes a fortune to retire & spend in Europe or America[.]

Our Rural population expects to spend their life permanently in a warmer ceimate [sic - probably 'climate'] than Europe & must so expect if we are to be a final success[.]

T1e [sic] Japanise [sic, 'p' handwritten] rural population also very much resents being classed with the Negro [handwritten addition '& so do we.']

That is what we are really out for[.] A subtropical & tropical civilisation [phrase 'like Japan is' crossed out.] English financial interests Want all tropical & subtropical development to be on Plantation lines that is to class all the labour employed

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in such agriculture as of the Negro type as they only understand development on that line[.]

Sooner or later this aspect will come home to rural Australia & then we shall attain to our real position[.]

Not to drop our White Australia Policy but to tighten it not in hostility to the other tropical races but to enable us to work out the details of a tropical civilisation on the lines of freedom & not veiled [spelling corrected by hand] slavery as that is what England is unwittingly being driven to for want of experience of the real difficulties[.]

There [spelling corrected by hand] is not the least doubt that proper development on these lines would be a mortal blow for Prussianism far more mortal that the military capture of Metz[.]

Real racial struggles are settled by the plough not by the sword[.]

Rome became great by the plough not the sword that only corrupted & in modern times Sedan was the corruptor of Germany and let us hope the regeneration of France[.]

We want our regeneration perhaps it is coming in not being able to smash Prussianism in the way we want by the sword[.]

The smash in superior industrial efficiency is far more lasting ['ing' handwritten] then in military efficiency[.]

Montague Churchill-Shann [handwritten signature]