[10] The Australian Labour organ, The Worker, boasted (Oct. 22, 1908): "When the law was not sufficient to guard race purity, 'selfish' Labour risked its life and liberty to go beyond the law, and to show, as was shown at another time in California, that the White Race would not tolerate Asiatic colonisation. The Chinese Exclusion Acts in various states of Australia were thus the monuments, not of the politicians who passed them into law, but of the courage of the workers who were willing—as the Eureka miners were willing—to sacrifice everything in the cause of a clean, free Australia."
Transcriber's Note:
1. Except as noted below, spelling and inconsistencies have been retained as they appear in the original publication.
2. "X-ray" in the text appears as "X-Ray" in the index.
3. "FitzGerald" in the text appears as "Fitz-Gerald" in the index.
4. On page 205, in the sentence starting "Japan possessing paramount", "Great Britain" was "Gerat Britain" in the original.
5. On page 240, "wheel-barrow" was "wheel-barrrow" in the original.
6. The punctuation in the index has been made consistent.
7. The name "Terra Austrialia del Espiritu Santo" is correct. "Austrialia" was an invented hybrid word combining the names "Austria" and "australis" as a compliment to King Phillip III of Spain who was a member of the House of Habsburg (Austria).