A LABOUR DELEGATE.

Otago Witness, Issue 2745, 24 October 1906, Page 17

A LABOUR DELEGATE.

SYDNEY, October 16. The Political Labour League welcomed Mr Ramsay MacDonakl, M.P. Speaking on the British Labour movement, the visitor paid a tribute to the valuable le^on taught them by the Australian Labourites. In tracing the growth of the industrial system in England, he said that the plutocracy they weie- fighting was not merely the rich class, but the vulgar class, who degraded everything they touched, whose ait was merely ostentatious vulgarity, whose literature was degrading, whcee commercial morality was sapping the I Christian conscience, and whose religion was largely cant and humbug, as well as make-believe. He pitied the miserable plutocrats, whose lives were barren of everything that made life real, exen mote than he pitied the men and women in tho workhouse. It was not the poveity of pounds, shillings, and pence that, the Labour party weie fighting, but the poverty of mind, oi soul, and of conscience. He maintained that the Labour party in every country was standing for, and not against, individualism.} for ' liberty t not against it. '