The Work of Emancipation,

the work of maintaining all the rights and privileges of your own country is not the work of a Cabinet, of a Premier, or of a Parliament: it is the work of the great masses of the people; and the hands of those in sympathy with you should be upheld while the fight is going page 20 on. Some men and women, in shaking hands with some prominent persons and flattering them, think they have shown some ability for their work, and imagine that they have done their all. But there is no set of men capable of running a State unless the great body of the people who make up that State are anxious—aggressively anxious—to get the best out of the State that it is possible to get. Let me say just one word of apology again. Since I have been here a very dear comrade of mine has been much maligned. I am referring to