MR ANDREW FISHER

Otago Witness, Issue 2985, 31 May 1911, Page 31

MR ANDREW FISHER

LONDON, May 26. The Labour party gave a dinner to Mr Fisher at the Hoiborn Restaurant, Mr J. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P., presiding. The chairman said it had been given to their cousins beyond the seas to show that in the domains of high politics the sons of the common people could shine conspicuously. The Empire must rest upon a federation of self-governing people, maintaining as their motto the unity of labour and the peace of the world. — (Cheers.) Mr Fisher, in reply, said that he could not understand why therte was any cause for the constant reference about a man rising from the ranks or from a humble position. The principle of greatness was honest labour. The party leaders should and would join in a world-wide movement to link up the world by one common effort for the good 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 tliat within the lifetime of most of his hearers the Labour movement would be conducting the government of this great Empire to a single object—viz., the peace and prosperity of every well-meaning and industrious person in every country.