OLD PARR AN OLD QUACK.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2848, 14 October 1890, Page 2

OLD PARR AN OLD QUACK.

TO THK KDITOH. Sin,—Old Parr, of pill renown, was an old quack; ho never lived to 167 years of age by swallowing his pills. From first to laßt all about his pills is .quackery. Professor Tindall will tell us traits of character are hereditary in man. We bave in our midst a living proof that it is so. Of my owu knowledge I do not know that Mr John Parr'of Hamilton is a grandson of Old' Pill Purr; I can only say that I have been informed that he is. Certainly our Mr Parr is a political qimck, which leads me to believe that my informant may be rieht. It may be that the descendants of Old Pill Parr may by inter-marriage with outsiders and by evolution cease in the course of of time to bo noted for their quack tendencies, but evolution is a very slow process, and in the case of our Mr Parr is too slow to affect him. Our Mr Parr is a political quack and will be to the end. Our Mr Parr has written letters denouncing private ownership of land ; he has written about righteousness and justice as now what is going to be, anil going to be through tho extinction of landlords. In the faco of all his sprousing we see that he himself has just lately let a farm, and is now himself a landlord. Writing one thing and doinr the opposite is quackery, and by so doitig Mr Parr is a quack. There is nothing wrong in being a landlord ; the wrong is in denouncing what one would wish W be, and the wrong oonsists in what sort of landlord one is, A rack-renting land lord ia a devil ; a liberal landlord is all that is good as far as landlords aro concerned. I am, etc., Hakampi.