The Australian Colonies are federated into a Commonwealth, and their example has been followed by the South African Colonies.

New Zealand and Australia are at one in their franchise, which allows no barrier of sex; but South Africa still restricts the vote to males.

In Australia the working class are in power, and the Commonwealth Prime Minister is a Labour representative.

There is no willingness to grant political rights to those who are not of European race, either in South Africa or in Australia; and the universal republic dreamed of by eighteenth century democrats, a republic which should know no racial or "colour" bar, is not in the vision of the modern colonial statesmen of democracy, who are frankly exclusive.
Only in New Zealand does a native race elect its own members to Parliament--and four Maori M.P.'s are returned.
TYRANNY UNDER DEMOCRATIC FORMS Experience has proved that democratic and republican forms of government are no guarantee that the nation possesses political liberty.
Mexico, nominally a republic under President Diaz, was in reality a military autocracy of the severest kind.

The South American Republics are merely unstable monarchies, at the mercy of men who can manipulate the political machinery and get control of the army.
It is too early yet to decide whether the constitutional form of government set up in Turkey in 1908, or the republic created on the abolition of monarchy in Portugal in 1910, mark national movements to democracy.