Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price 1d. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1886. “The Unity of the Races.”

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XIX, Issue 1806, 12 March 1886, Page 2

Wairarapa Standard Published Tri-weekly, Price Id. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1886. “The Unity of the Races.”

Thz Evening Post, inspired by Mr Ballance, the Native Minister, has been gushing and publishing a good deal of balderdash about " the Unity of the Races.” Mr J. E. Fitzgerald used to make high-flown speeches in Parliament about " the amalgamation of the races by which he meant that the Pakebas and Maoris should intermarry and produce a new and superior breed of children, wbo would grow up into the very finest race of men and women the world ever saw. That plan was, however, found to be altogether impracticable. Its modification, as suggested by Mr Ballance and the Post, is to have the Pakebas and Muons all banded together in a union of wants, feelings, interests and aspirations—a sort of realisatii.il of that good time coming,

“ When man to man the world o'er '' “ Shall brithers be and a’ that." But alas thin grand idea can hardly be reabstd. the (ioveriimiiit and the settlors ought t > do justice to the Native lince in the matter oi their lands, their education and general welfare. The Natives are alto entitled to the fullest measure of political rights, and in fact that privilege ia already, to a great extent, within their reach if they choose to take advantage of the existing laws. Bat, when all has been said and done, the fact remains that the two races will always remain mote or less apart. Some few exceptional men among the Maoris will come to the front and take leading positions, but the rai aud file of the race will not rise or improve very much. Meantime, colonists will go on occupying the country, and making railways, roads and bridges, while the weaker race will gradually go to the wall. Bori Bopiha and his followers mean well by their overtures to the Government and we hope their leasonsble desires will be met in a just and generous spirit. But while the people will be treated fairly and generously, yet no real social 11 unity of the races " will be brought abeut. We were deeply gratified to find that when Hori Bopiha and bis men had an interview with Mr Ballance, they knelt down in the Ministerial room and offered up a prayer en behalf of him and his colleagues. We hope that the prayer of these untutored savages did Mr Ballance and Mr Stout good. Both these eminent Statesmen stand sorely in need of being prayed for, seeing that, like the Frenchman iu London during the “ No Popery ” riois, they might chalk up on the doers of their residences :—“ Dis bonoe have no religion at all. 1 Perhaps, however, Hori Bopiha and bis baud of praying brethren may be able to convert Mr Ballance and Mr Stout, and " to pluck them out as brands from tbs bnrninir.”