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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, 5 July 1911, Page 8

The idea of binding the Empire together in harmony and song appealed to him more favourably than binding the component parts with tariffs and bonds of that character. — Hon. G. Fowlds. Whatever followed. Catholics would go on following along the hard and thorny path of sacrifice, training their young ones in the way of God, on a firm and everlasting rock, and what to-day they sowed in sorrow and sacrifice they would reap to-morrow in happiness and joy.— Bishop Cleary. Some words, it has been remarked, lose caste and become degraded in use; but others rise in rank and become ennobled. “Democracy” is one of these last; it originally meant “Government by the mob,” i.e., 1 take it, by the unintelligent—it has now risen to mean “government of the people, by the people, for the people”; and the more freely you spread your higher education, the more intelligent will be your people and the higher and higher will become the significance of the word “Democracy.”— Mr. G. Hog~ben. The most valuable asset of any community was its labour. It might be computed that if 650 labourers died of consumption the State incurred a loss of £200,000. This disease, which created so much havoc, was preven tible. Wherever it existed it was due, broadly speaking, to infection from milk and from consumptive human beings. Among the predisposing causes of consumption were inherited weakness, overwork, indulgence in alcohol, and insufficiency of food.— Dr. Blackmore, South Canterbury.