THE TE KOOTI SCARE. TO THE EDITOR.
Sir— Tour outspoken remarks upon this To Kooti affair deserve every praise. The whole agitation is a sham. Ithasbeongot np for selfish ends, principally by Maori land speculators, who look upon Te Kooti as the aroh enemy of their little sohemes for obtaining big blocks of Maori land. Te Kooti believes in using the land for tho production of wealth, but not in buying and selling it like a pig or a sheep. The dread of his influence among the ignorant, rumdrinking, land-Belliiur Maoris h at the root ol tho troubln. In fa-t. )t uu= at tho instigation of laud swindlers that lie wad firat imprisoned without a trial, and they were the real cause of the Poverty Bay maesaore.
To Kooti has been for many years a milch oo' to tho military oloment, the old played ou officers, &0., and tho expenditure of pnbli money is juat what they and others deain 'lho trouble has all arisen through tho grec of tho Europeans. Tho feeling of vengeanc is only in the minds of a very few, an< would soon die out if tho selfish agitator woro to leave well alono. I am, 4c, A. Desmond, Poverty Bay.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 59, 11 March 1889, Page 3
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