[BITList] 1907 Photo

[John Feltham]

1907 PHOTO


Perhaps this is one email that needs to be forwarded until every  
Australian with a computer receives it.

The year is 1907, over one hundred and three years ago....



READ PRINT UNDER PICTURE!




Sir Edmund Barton’s ideas on Immigrants and being an Australian in 1907.


'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes  
here in good faith becomes an Australian and assimilates himself to  
us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for  
it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of   
creed, or birthplace, or origin.  But this is predicated upon the  
person's becoming in every facet an Australian, and nothing but an  
Australian... There can be no divided allegiance here.  Any man who  
says he is an Australian, but something else also, isn't an Australian  
at all. We have room for but one flag, the Australian flag.... We have  
room for but one language here, and that is the English language...  
and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the  
Australian people.'


   Edmund Barton
1907

   Every Australian citizen needs to read this! KEEP THIS MOVING

(For those who don’t know Edmund Barton was Australia’s first PM)



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