MR MONK AT HELENSVILLE.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 463, 16 April 1890, Page 4

MR MONK AT HELENSVILLE.

Auckland, April 11. Mr R. Monk, M.H.R. for Waitemata, addressed his constituents at Helensville last night. There was a poor attendance, owing to the bad weather prevalent. Mr Isaac McLeod occupied the chair. Mr Monk spoke first of a rumour concerning the likelihood of further borrowing being resorted to. He believed there were only two classes of people in the country who were in favour of further borrowing—those who had no stake in the country, or those who hoped to get rid of their stake in it through borrowed money. He urged the people to agitato against further borrowing. He did nob think they required a system of paid immigration, having already twosatisfactory systems, viz., the forty-acre system, and the introduction of small capitalists. Mr Monk also expressed approval of Mr Richardson’s land policy, which lie said was a healthful measure to secure the occupation of land. Their, present difficulty, he considered, arose from profsssional politicians, and the low price of produce. The evils of bad government were the result of tho political conceptions of the people themselves, and there weremoremen in Parliament who thought more of their own aggrandisement and interests than of the country, who voted against measures in order to turn out a Ministry rather than secur the welfare of the country. Mr Monk said the cry raised against tho action taken in regard to the Civil Service Bill and the cry raised thab it would interfere with the liberty of tho House, was only a flimsy pretext to place civil servants beyond the control of the House. He did nob defend all the actions of tho Young New Zealand party, but he believed thab in them rested the only hope for Now Zealand. He believed that the only hope for tho colony was the creation of a patriotic feeling. One object of the Young New Zealand party was to stamp out the feeling thab the cure for depression was to get further into debt. They did not use this principle in thenown business, for they knew it meant ruin. They were also opposed to further harbour loans for the construction of artificial harbours. Another object of the New Zealand party was to exercise supervision over the trust funds in the hands of the Government. The time had arrived for building up a nation. He did not mean separation, bub they should seek to cultivate a patriotic feeling, because no good could come to any people until they felt that spirit of patriotism which induced them to say, “ This is my own, my native land.” Education was nob going to give men protection against the false glamour of society, and those who said thab gambling was tho coming vice of Now Zealand said that it was derived from the gambling and borrowing of the Legislature. In conclusion Mr Monk invited every man and woman to join tho Young New Zealand party, and to cultivate a New Zealand feeling of national honour. Ho also answered a number of questions, and was subsequently accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence