The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-01-25
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THURSDAY, JANUARY %, 1894.
FAIR REPRESENTATION.


waiian community are affected by
the state of the sugar market.
From this premise it reaches the
conclusion that the Council is rep
resentative as it stands and does
not need to be at all extended or
enlarged.
1t is true that sugar is the
dominant industry here, and that
when its price is up everybody is
better off than when its price is
down. In the same way the mining
of coal is the principal industry in
Pennsylvania, affecting the inter
ests of all classes, but no one has
ever had the temerity to urge that
owners of coal stocks and of shares
in companies transporting coal
should thereby fill two-thirds and
more Of the seats in the State
legislature. The raising of corn
and wheat is the chief industry Of
New York, but farmers on that ac-
count do not arrogate to themselves
the control of the State government
and as a usual thing do not join
the organizations which misguided
people have sometimes formed for
such a purpose. In some of the
western commonwealth the SUI
preme interest is railroads, but
the healthiest sort of public senti
ment has always resisted any
scheme to turn the legislative
bodies over to railroad men, and
this in spite of the fact that
if the railroads should cease to pay
or the cars should stop running,
every business interest i'll the
State would suffer. The principle
of representation, not merely for
the men who stand for dominant
business interests i'll given COM
munity but for people who follow
subordinate employments, those
who hold to certain political
ideas, those Of participatory races,
those who advocate great reforms,
those who engage in manual or
skilled labor or in professions, is
one common to all democratic
communities and it cannot be
abused or interfered with except at
grave risk to the public and the
party peace.
The wise men who constituted
the Hawaiian Advisory Council in
the first place recognized that great
and enduring principle. AS then
formed the Council had the follow
ing membership: L. A. Thurston,
F. J. Wilhelm, J. Emmeluth,
Andrew Brown, c. Bolte, James
F. Morgan, Henry Warehouse,
S. M. Damon, w. c.. Ashley, Z.
d. Tenny, f. w. McChesney, w.
c. Wilder, ]. A. McCandless and
w. R. Castle. To the STARS
mind that Council could have been
but slightly improved upon. 1t
was truly representative in most of
its component parts. Mr.. Thurston
stood mainly for a political idea.
Messrs. Emmeluth, Andrew Brown,
Morgan, Ashley, McChesney and
McCandless stood for the sound
middle class citizenship which
earns its living and is only indi-
rectly affected by corporate inter
ests. Mr.. Damon stood on the
high levels of finance. Mr.. Castle
represented the law, and the sugar
and mercantile interests were in ex-
cellent hands. Had this Council
continued all would have been weS,
but Ashley, McChesney, McCan-
dless and Andrew Brown have
dropped out, and by an unfortunate
men whose interests are
at one point and who have
been accustomed to think and act
alike in business succeeded them.
Therefore, to talk now of the Ad-
visory Council being broadly rep |
either of the aver
age loyal citizenship or of the party |
which began and carried out the
evolution, is to indulge in hollow
of the facts. We are pro-
oundly impressed with the idea
hat to repair the errors of the recent
,ast and to give all the patriotic
dement's of the Islands a chance to
express themselves in the Councils
# the State and i'll the debates
which may precede final change
# Government in the direction of a
form, is the highest
resent function of Hawaiian poll
les. Let there be no more privi-
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