Excerpt from The Review of Reviews for Australasia: Aug., 1912 The conclusion at which I have arrived in my own mind is that, while some years ago there was, without doubt, great cruelty practised 011 the natives by many of the men who pushed out to the frontiers, there has never been anything to warrant statements that any of the Governments carried out a policy of extermination. At the present time the Federal Government is initiating a policy of protection for the natives in the Northern Territory, which should bear good fruit, and result in the improvement of the condition of the aborigines. What the aborigine suffers most from in his con tact with the white is moral contamination, and this is awful. His alcoholic liquor and his lust ha1e produced conditions that are appalling S1phi1is is horribly prevalent among the natives who gather about the settlements. It is often said that the Japs and Chinese are the worst offenders, some of them keeping harems of half - a-dozen lubras; but I, for one, am not willing to saddle the responsibility 011 them. Many depraved whites are just as bad, and, moreover, it is white governments that have made the laws that permit these things. And so bad are things in this respect that instant action is necessary. Professor Spencer may be relied upon to do everything he can to quench this flame of destruction, but he ought to be armed with such drastic powers that he can effectively stop, not lessen, but stop this frightful form of evil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.