THE PRINCIPLE OF GREATNESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 313, 29 May 1911, Page 5

THE PRINCIPLE OF GREATNESS

HONEST LABOR. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 2G. The Labor Party gave a dinner to Mr. Fisher at the Holborn Restaurant, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., presiding. Mr. Macdonald said that it had been given to their cousins beyond the seas to show that in the domain of high politics the sons of the common people could shine conspicuously. The Empire must rest upon the federation of the self-governing people maintaining as their motto "the unity of labor and the peace of the world."—(Cheers). Mr. Fisher, in replying, said he could not understand why there was any cause to refer to a man as rising from the ranks or from a humble position, because the principle of greatness was honest labor. The Labor Party were the leaders of a world-wide movement to link up the world in a common effort for the «ond of the whole. The best means of obtaining freedom and happiness was to co-operate mutually to prevent war and destruction of all kinds. He predicted that within the lifetime of most of his hearers the Tabor movement of a great Empire with fli ß single object of promoting peace :■ ■■ 1 the prosperity of every well-meaning industrious person in every country.