THE WORLD’S BEST WORKMAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3763, 2 May 1907, Page 4

THE WORLD’S BEST WORKMAN.

- , The British workman is not tasteful, like .the Frenchman. He is not scientific like the German. He is not ingenious and brisk, like the American. He does not work the long hours of the Italian, the Russian, the Austrian, and the Hungarian. He is not imitative, like the Japanese. He wastes his time in gambling and sport, unlike the Continental workman, who spends his spare time in study. His wife is a bad cook and housekeeper. His Government does not look after his technical education as the foreigner’s is looked after. His labour is not subsidised by the Government, as in France and all other countries. He has no tariff or imports to protect him from competition. And yet he beats the world in the output of his work. What the British workman makes is the best that can be made. And from the savage Central African and the simple Hindu, to the cultured Frenchman and the acute American, every customer gives the palm for reliableness to articles of the Britis h worker’s manufacture.