Yet we were aware that whenever our government had endeavoured to use its influence with certain South American republics to enlarge the liberties of the Amerindian and to restrain excessive and cruel explotation of their labour or their property, we were blocked by the diplomacy of the United States.

If we were a logical people, sufficiently well read in history and the lessons of history, each one of us who could afford the modest subscription of a few shillings would be a member of the Aborigines Protection Society, the most purely philanthropic organization which exists in our land at the present day.