A Tribute to the Workers.

We have in New Zealand a democracy of workers, the level of whose intelligence, ability and material comfort is higher than anywhere else in the world. Their intelligence is this country's best security. They will demand progress and they will enforce it, but it will be a progress along safe lines. They can distinguish an appeal to reason from an appeal to passion, and will always enlist under those who promise prudent guidance to steadily bettering conditions rather than under those self-appointed deliverers who seek their miraculous emancipation from an imaginary bondage.