THE YOUNG MAORI PARTY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 626, 1 October 1909, Page 8

THE YOUNG MAORI PARTY.

• notice in. your valuable journal a letter, by a gentleman .writing aboutt&e.Young, , -Maori party. ■ I.disagree with the views therein' set forth. The criticism is /Unfair.- No vigour .'or vim can be gathered from- the-article in -question,-' seemingly; :written -.'by . one in- a • vinegar-plant frame of mind. ,1 do -not personally, belong to the .'Young Maori party; but; as an outsider I orimire'the great gobd that is in them, their kindly courtesy;, and their sane-, prepositions in tho behalf betterment generally. 'When'the'-writer of. the -article complains .about the out-ot-touch state: of tho young "and the old".'Maoris "he-'is : simply dealing in unclassified .fossils.: Any fool' knows, any wise mail is'sure, that-the' Souflg. Maori, jjarty is in ..touchwith : such' of - their. elders as are'now,living'.,: THe'article'remirids:me of, a/spider-hunt among cobwebs; which, have ,no' flies,; and; do not sustain ' their' reputation as fly: catchers. .; The biting-out'/of dreamt by A a\drcaruer who: has hail a touch .of nightmare will' not convince.or carry weight. That the writer hashes : up a number of wild wide statements is ovident:'He'puts'his crust upon his humble-pie and then' Captain Gook's it. Harmony is invited; melody is in the air; he brings along the Pecksniffian jar -of self T complacent discord. I • state plainly- that tho Maori race has a hopeful-outlook, and I am glad that this is so. The Young; Maori party will take good care that the Native race does ' not become an understudy to:a pessimist.—l am, etc.,"- •" - - 1 / ' E. ,J. WATTS. . Tanmarunui, September 28, 1909.