The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-02-01
"THE OTHER ISLANDS. "

Those who oppose an enlarge
nent of the Advisory Council have
crown solicitous about the rights |
If the other Islands If new
are To be elected they
want Maui Hawaii and Kauai to
name them, although up to the
hour of going to press the people
of those genial communities have
shown no desire to do so. III |
fact the only outside Annexation
Club which has had aught to say
about Council representation has,
through its secretary, ratified a
recent nominee of the party organi-
cations here. On the whole the
STAR suspects that the other ISL
ands are quite well satisfied with
the able plantation representatives
they now have in the Advisory
Couucil-men who are i'll a dis
tiuct majority there-and that all
the interest shown by the con-
servatives here on their behalf is
due to the hope that, if the out
siders take a baud in the voting,
they will elect conservative Homo
lulu men whom the present Coun-
cilmen may pick out for them.
Certainly, as the members
Of the Council serve with
out pay it is not to be supposed
that the other Islands will send
any local representative to Our
weekly Legislature. The whole
scheme, as it stands, is a delusion
and snare. BY urging it the
conservatives hope to discourage
the local movement and if they
cannot do that to name the new
members whom their friends and
employees on the other Islands are
to vote for.
The GOODNESS of the proposal is
quite humorous. Here is a Coun.
Gil made up of men who did not
think of referring their aims or theii
candidatures to the other islands III
the first instance. We will admi
that they had no time to do so bu
it happens that, since the day o
the revolution, there have been ter
changes-just ten--in the personne
of the Executive and Advisory
| Councils, nine of them pertaining
to the latter, and net a single refer
sHte has Teen mate to tie 7oiShey q
anyone 0HtSids If OahM 1t is only
+ when the men who carried arm,
during and since the revolution
and who are depended on to SAVE
the Government from its enemies
want representatives of their owl
in the Advisory Council, that thu
,, conservatives have thought of thu
outside constituencies at all.
Of course, against the principl
, of representation for the Group tn
l. STAR has nothing to say-nothin!
whatever. The principle is I'm
. doubtedly valid ; but we insist,
it is applied, that it shall reach al
alike. What is there fair to Oahr
in having self-elected member
j standing in its own name and reI
5 resentative ones in the name of tn
- outside communities If all are t
: vote let all be voted for. Let tn
II present Councilmen appeal for re
: election when the ten new non
/ inees are put up. Then let th
d Group vote on the whole QUIT
l. and constitute a new legislator,
Y People who talk about commo
Il fairness certainly cannot object
such an equitable arrangement /,
this. In homely phrase, what
le sauce for the radical goose shou,
< be sauce for the conservati,
le gander.
le A word about politics. What
Is heavens name does the ruliI
q loyal minority in Oahu expect
III gain by its steady and even fer
Ill hostility to the will of the 10y
Is party majority? That's all.
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