The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933. MR MACDONALD'S VISION.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1933, Page 4

The Guardian And Evening Star, with which is incorporated the West Coast Times WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1933. MR MACDONALD'S VISION.

in the course of a recent address at Portsmouth the Hen, Ramsay MacDonald, British Prune Minister sain:“I shall die- a dreamer! Could or.o liv-s- through these years if one did not dream that one is going; to help to make things lighter? One coukl

not. One inn.A .get into touch with men and women who have an ideal, so that one way keep on dreaming. What are we in search of to-day? We are in search of men who will serve the State without thought of reward; we are in search of men who have got the spirit, who have got tile communal sense-; wo are in search of men who, knowing the conditions we are going through, will -put their backs behind the nation, behind the State, and will see it through. The men who can do best .of all are the men who attend Brotherhood meetings. We are living in critical times, and you are going to see us. through—men of your spirit, men of your inclination, men of your inspiration. And when we are through we shall not he the same men and women who went into the- crisis. It is not what you believe ! in, but what you do ; not what you get, but what you give, that is going to get the solid step, upon which the - resit are going to move up and up. Our problem is whether we, as human beings, are to bow clown to the development of scientific knowledge and the application of scientific knowledge, or are going to harness that knowledge to our ends, so that .the material experience of life will sink into the background and, endowed with power, we w-i 1 1 use that power for our mental and spiritual emancipation. That power will either break or enslave us, or, on the other hand, we can use it to emancipate ourselves. If we are to do the latter we must produce quality in men. To-day those who merely talk about money an;] of what it represents, .powerful as it is, areoniy misleading others. Material power can destroy, but spiritual can create. Can anyone tell me of what use- industrial strife is going to he at the present moment of evolution ? How are you going .to avoid it? By one side oi- the other knuckling clown? Not at Ydl, but by both sides coming together, and, like honest and reasonable men, finding a common way out of the difficulty. There is far too much enmity in this world, and no generation can affo’cl it less than oius. The same thing is as time in international affairs as it is in industrial affairs. If we can get goodwill in the hearts of the nations, we shall soon be able to reach, decisions. But when we find suspicion and history which orght to have been dead centuries ago still rife, rankling, poisoning, then what a task is created ! We had our difficulty in raising the great banner of peace, and it has been raised again, and, please Cod, whenever it is necessary that that banner should ho raised, this country will do the raising manfully and loyally to the best of its ability.”