OUR PRINCE

Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14535, 6 December 1920, Page 2

OUR PRINCE

A LABOURITE TRIBUTE. (From a Correspondent.) LONDON, October 14. • In connection with the homecoming of the Prince of Wales, Mr J. HaveJock Wilson, the Labour M.P., writes in the Empire News: — "When I say 'our' Prince, 1 am ipeaking for the working men of Bri--1 tain, with whom the heir to the Throne is as popular as any man can ever hope to be with any section of a (vast .people. It is for the working man 'that 1 speak, and on his behalf I s»y with all my heart: 'Welcome home!' The People's Prince—for such he surely is—'has been on no mere pleasure trip. The work he has done was a serious undertaking, not unattended by discomforts and fatigue. ■ He had stepped, as it were, from the field of battle, to undertake this exhausting work. Canada knew, the United States knew, too, what it meant, and the people sprang up in '.thousands to acclaim this essentially i .British young man—as the- type and outward manifestation of our goodwill and of all that is highest and best ha the fiower of our youth. And, again; he was called to the Dominions of the Southern Seas, and, pursuing his great duty, has toured through New Zealand and visited Australialands eminently loyal, as evidenced during the war, hut unaccustomed to bow the knee to mere rank or fortune, bu*. gleeful and glad to appraise w.ark in whatever human shape it "Nothing is so educational, nothing ' gives a truer perspective of the world aud its great problems 'than travel and contact. And in the case of one who, in the course of time, must ascend the throne of this great Empire, nothing more valuable than the travel and contact of the two great tours now concluded could.*, have come to the young Prince. But ils results to the Empire are also outstandingly "great and potent.- Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders have seen their future King. They have been brought to regard him as a very real and very human personality. It is such threads that bind the British Empire, threads of sentiment and affection stronger than cables of steel, or fleets and armies. It is a B'ig..lhing and a great thing to have done, this work of the Prince's. It is a bigger thing to have done it all so well. We all owe the Prince of Wales a debt of gratitude, and no jww»HHrti who is loyal, none who respect fijjgh character or great achievement. will be found other than glad that, KfiflS "great mission completed, he has I safely returned home."