SPITE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2453, 31 March 1888, Page 2

SPITE.

TO Till-) KIllTO!!. Silt,—Since 1 wrote my l;nt letter to you il has been said of me that lam a spiteful venomous, ill-natured old wretch, that. I hate all women and abhor all men. It is said that I have a mean petty spite at Sir George Grey, this I deny. Tis true, I have a great just indignation at him, and ns some of your readers do not I;now the difference between spite and just indignation, I will show them that just indignation is right and spite is wrong. Spite flows from personal motives, it is theoutcome of a seeker asking an unfair advantage, and being refused, the seeker takes a spite at the refuser, such as a good borrower who is a bad payer, asking a loan, if he is refused he takes a spite at the refuser ;"a man may want to sell a horse to another, the buyer may suit himself better elsewhere, the seller takes a spite at the buyer, because ho would not be unjust, to himself. I may be a iishy old fellow, not altogether the clean potatoe. I may have a daughter, and because some decent young fellow won't marry her, and have me for a father, I take a spite at him, and so on. Now, I have never wanted any favour, neither direct nor indirect from Sir George Grey, and as I have never been given or refused any farour from him, I am neutral, therefore, I can be fair. Just indignation is the very opposite to spite, it is a feeling of abhorrence to falsity, gammon and fudge. Hut indignation, if not just, is nothing else than unreasonable auger,and to show thall haveno such feeling against Sir CI. Grey but that I am justified in having great just indignation I will go over a few incidents in the last few years of his life. About twelve or fourteen years ago he was in Kngland trying for a Tory constituency. He did toady and butter the' Tories, his talent is great in that line, lie can do it ; when it conies to sift sawder, butter and gammon, he is beautiful. Now, Mr liditor, I have no objection to a man being Tory or Radical, so long as he is an honest Tory or Radical. God made Tories and Radicals because it was necessary there should be both. If there had been no Radicals, foxhunting squires would still have been transporting men for killing a rabbit, and parson magistrates would still be putting in jail the mothers of starving children for stealing a turnip ; and, if there had been no Tories, Radical manufacturers, the Manchester men, would still have little children, six and seven years old, wearing their young lives out in hot, close, stifling, stinking mills, twelve and fourteen hours a day. The fact is the name Tory, or Radical, is all fudge, as far as representing narrow and contracted Conservatism, or lofty and grand progress. You will find Tories libera! tj 'V very core in their nature, ami you will find Liberals mean skunks, and vice versa. One thing is certain here in New Zealand. The cry of Liberalism Ins been used for such base purposes that any true Liberal is ashamed to be thought one. But, Mr Editor, I have been wandering away from Sir G. Grey, and from bis inconsistencies and glaring contradictions. Well, then, ho did not succeed in getting to be a Tory M.P., so he came back to New Zealand, and at once commenced on the opposite side. He determined, as he could not at 1 { line succeed as a Tory, in revenge he would here succeed as a Liberal. Now, T would not object to him as a true Liberal, but I say you cannot have the true out of the untrue. Truth is not contradictions, and I will show you that he is all contradictions, therefore ho cannot be true. The greatest political cry that he had, and the one that gave him the greatest power, was the cry against the big land-holders of Canterbury. This was of his many crics the greatest one, and, strange to say, the cry which gave him his greatest power. This cry was the greatest of his untruthfulness, by the cry that the large landholders had robbed the people, he endeared himself to the people as being their true friend. Now, the truth is he. crcatcd these big landlords and did a very reprehensible action in doing so, be did a very unfair action in doing so and went completely out of his way in doing so, it-was a domineering act his doing so, he created the big landlords and sacrificed the land. He himself was made by the aristocracy and he threw a sop to the interest which had been the making of him. In a former letter I explained the details of how be did so. Another big political cry of his was that the Governor did wrong in signing a paper, allowing Sir J. Hall to leave the Upper House to cuter the lower one. He blamed the Governor for allowing, and Sir John for accepting. Heavens ! what a bobbery he did kick up; went stum ping, raging, haranguing the country about the wrong of the thing, and this is where ho was untrue, is that when lie was Governor he did the very same thing himself. VVlien out of office be went denouncing maladministration. When he did get into office did lie setagoodexample :No; he was even worse than the others ; they were bad enough God knows, but for political roguery and political foolery, and political corruption. His Government has been the worst of all ; so rotten was his Government that it is not likely the like of it will ever be seen again. Sir George is now going to leave the colony. This I put down as worth as much to the colony as an asset of £10,000,000. It may bo said I am craokecl. Am 1 ? Why, it was said that after the fight of Orakau, the last lis;lit in the Waikaio, the natives had got such a thrashing that they were willing, if followed up, to submit to any terms. General Cameron was going to follow them up, but Sir G. Grey sfa\ed his hand; the General was not allowed to follow them up, the natives, owing to this, took heart, and the consequence was they renewed the war, and for two or three years we had to fight at the expense of both lives and money. It can only be supposed he did not allow General Cameron his will, from the fact that it was the General who wished it, and that Sir George, not being General, he could not be head gaffer in following up the natives, and if the natives were bealen, he, Sir George, would get no honour. If the General had been allowed to follow up the natives, they were prepared to give in. This alone, when you count the bloodshed and expense and retarding the colony, would have been worth ten millions, and I say there can never be good Government in New Zealand as long as Sir G. Grey is in it. No matter how good and honest and pure the Government, he would find fault with it and try and upset it, he is so despotic that he will allow no one but himself to rule, he alone must be head bummer, and to attain his ends he would show that angels were devils and devils were angels.—Yours very truly, Hakapipi.