THE MILLENNIAL DAWN.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXII, Issue 2796, 29 May 1911, Page 2

THE MILLENNIAL DAWN.

WHEN LABOUR RULES THE

EMPIRE.

PEACE AMONG THE NATIONS

AND PROSPERITY FOR ALL.

[By Electric Telegraph.]

London, May 26.

At the Labour party's dinner to Mr Fisher at the Holborn restaurant, Mr Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., who presided, said it had been given to their cousins beyond the seas to show that in the dominions of high politics the sons of the common people could shine conspicuously. The lEmpire must rest upon a federation of self-governing people, maintaining the motto of the unity of labour and the peace of the world. (Cheers).

Mr Fisher could not understand why there was any cause to refer to a man rising from the ranks or from a humble position, because the principle of greatness was honest labour. The Labour party were leaders in a world wide movement to link up the world in one common effort for the good of the whole. The best means of obtaining freedom and happiness was to co-operate to mutually prevent war, and destruction of all kinds. He predicted that within the lifetime of most of his hearers the Labour movement would be conducting the Government of a great Empire with the single object of the peace and prosperity of every well-meaning and industrious person in every country.