CONSTITUTIONAL METHODS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1926, 8 December 1913, Page 7

CONSTITUTIONAL METHODS

HOW TO ACHIEVE REFORM. A word of encouragement and advico was tendered to tho Wellington lettercarriers by the Hon. F. M. 1!. Fisher (Minister of Marino) at their annual dinner on Saturday evening. This was a country, ho said, whoro every young man had a chanco. (Applause.) Tho splendid career of Sir Joseph Ward showed that oven a. telegraph messenger carried tho baton of a Postmaster-General in his knapsack. Hon. R. H. Rhodes (Postmaster* General): And a letter-carrier has become a. member of Parliament. Tf they wanted to bring about reforms, i'or- their own benefit or for the benefit of any outsiders for whom they might have sympathy, Mr. Fisher continued, they should use constitutional methods. "Go right in the front door," ho said, "present your demands, and stand by them. Don't break in t'iie windows at the back, burst out tho front- door from the inside, ami stand on tile steps with revolvers. in your hands. H you keep to constitutional methods, your progress may be a iittlo slower, Imt. it will certainly be much more permanent-." (Applause.) In conclusion, Sir. Fisher expressed the hope that at somo future function ho would seo in tho chair, somo young New Zealnnder who has risen from tlui ranks of tho service. (Applause.)