KEIR HARDIE ON NEW ZEALAND.
Mr I voir Himlie, on arrival in Tasmania Irom New Zealand, slated to an interviewer that lie was thinking of advising bis two sons (both, engirw eer.q to settle in New Zealand.
“Mnoriland is certainly the best country on earth for the workers,” ho said. “Thu people are slow-going, cautious (yes, Scotch, if you like), yet have proceeded further along Socialistic lines than any other people. Maybe they don’t quite realise how Socialistic they are. And it’s a good job they are cautious; for any undue recklessness in a Socialistic direction would attract more immigration than the country could easily absorb, and create a Canadian situation, with its consequent bad advertisement. A brainy organiser or two could lift Maoriland into the position of an earthly paradise. “The agitators there don’t seem to me to quite (ill the bill. They are mostly imported men, and make the mistake of talking to the fairly prosperous Maorilanders about ‘chains’ and ‘slavery,’ which, however applicable such terms might be to the very poor of the Old 'World industrial centres, are. not really understood in New Zealand. It was the same in America, until the propagandists got ‘racy of the soil.’ ”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2111, 10 February 1908, Page 2
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