The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1896-06-06

leaders among the ttaWaIldhS, anu
such influential newspapers as the
Aloha Alma and others on the oppo-
site side OF the political fence, who
noting, the anxiety, the intensity oI
feeling and opposition which could
easily have been wrought up to a dan
gerous pitch. by their persuasions and
address. helped TO bring about taclt
obedience TO the demands OF the Act.
Now if a law can appeal in this way
to the prejudices and passions OF one
section of the community, how must lt
he regarded by CaUcasians, by Amerl-
cans or British. or others, who are not
used 10 this sort OF thing, and who
hold IN adherence, who lOdJhe ana
who protest against the injustice anu
tyranny OF laws which SAVIOR more OF
autocratic Russia and the tnlrd sec
ton than OF the growth and fruit OF
repubiiCanism.
a republic which is built on the
broad and liberal foundation OF the
Deople's will, which is cemented To-
gether by principles OF equal rights,
need not scruJiniZe the acts, the DO
ings or goings OF the individual. When
IL becomes suspicious, then its hold Is
weak and it might as well let go alto
gether.
DriucipaIIy enunciated for the better
class OF the labor contract system in
vogue in Hawaii. All. there we have
the meat in the cOcoanut. Unmindful
OF the fact that the great bulk of leg
islation during the last twenty years
has been TO place greater safeguards
around the sugar industry, aside from
the support given it through the Reel
procity treaty, absorbing each year by
its octopus clutch more and more OF
the vitality OF individual effort, with
the aid OF the most seTvile and degrad-
ed class of labor helping its promoters
to accumulate enormous dividends, de-
nying TO the Government its fair 1.-THE
OF taxation, bOycotting and freezing out
independent speech and thought where
il can, all this is not enough, and the
IOng-suffering Hawaiian camel must be
made TO stagger still more by yet
heavier burden, and so that we may
check the waltZing-Out ambitions OF
or $40 a month slaves, who shall be
made 10 register There is but one
Allah. and we by grace and divine right
are his prophets, even if we don't pay
the taxes.
Who then is responsible for this
state of things and for this last ring
ing-up of the curtain?
Somewhere in the far East, buried
fathOms deep under the dust, debris
and accumulation of ages, rests a Sam
son dreaming bIissful dreams of a gen.
ial but tickle Delilah, perchance fight
ing over again CORY battles, wherein
myriads of PhiIistines were supposed
to have been slain by him with no
other weapon than a jawbone. Surely
his sympathies must go out toward the
solonS OF the Hawaiian Legislative as
Sembly, where, though they have no
Samsons. or the jawbOne used is any
thing but a lethal weapon and OF no
peculiar design, shape or species, still
the havoc made is just as great. So
that there is nothing new under the
sun
Now, gentlemen of the Legislature, |
what is to be the outcome of all your
celebrations during the last seventy
days? What have you accomplished
in return for the peoples money, which
has been paid you? They honored,
when they elected you; what measure
have you given in return?
OF what avail, gentlemen of the Leg
isIature. is your resolution of annexa-
ton? Not but what we know there
was a broad grin on your cOunten-
anceS when you voted for il, and many
a sly wink exchanged. Do you suppose
for moment you can throw dust in the
eyes of the American people and thus
blind them to the Stupendous plumbers
and acts of egregrious folly you have
been and all the time are committing a
When you cease cOuntenancing fur
ther importation of coolies and slaves
for 80 per cent paying sugar planta-
tiOnS. when you expunge class and dis
statute books, when you repeal the in
iquitOus Registration Act, when in
stead of wasting your breath. your
time, your energy, in bOOtless discus
sion over five-cent trivialities like tar
get-shOoting laws or whether to tax
canine females or not, in short when
you show by your work that you are
DESTROYS and have the ability to in
augurate new era. to make of this
country a Government of the people,
by the people. for the people, neither
discriminating for or against plutOcrat,
planter or poor man. but equal laws for
all, then and not till then can you hope
to gain the ear of the American people
or hope for your own Republic TO last
more than its short day. Which shall
ii be? And these things. gentlemen,
call for no delay; the handwriting is
on the wall.
There has been presented to you a
grand and glorious opportunity in this
the first session of the Legislature I'M
der the Republic OF Hawaii, to make
history. Whether the record that is
to be handed down shall prove an en-
viable one or not remains to be proved.
That 1t did or did not rise even to the
level or mediocrity, that it did or did
not possess the acumen or prescience
10 grasp and solve the many problems
Affecting the welfare of rich and poor.
OF the body polite alike, that il proved
10 be record Of inaptitude and imbeciI-
lily instead OF one of wisdom and cour-
age, all these questions will be asked
before long.
A. B. LOEBENSTETN