The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-01
Judge Kinney Declares Dole Has
Been Maligned. 81
FALSE CHARGES MADE
LAND GRADERS AND DEMA-
GoGUEs CAUSE TROUBLE.
Former Salt Laker Returns From
Honolulu and Describes Condi-
tions On the Islands-Why Land
Spectators Were Not Given What
They Wanted.

w. A. Kinney. formerly of Salt Lake
and now a practicing attorney OF Homo
lulu. Hawaiian islands, arrived in town
yesterday. Mr.. Kinney was appointed
judge advocate by the Hawaiian gov-c
eminent at the time or the revolution.
and was active in exposing the preten-
sionS and inordinate ambitions Of
Queen LII and her supporters. He was
also a member CT the commission that
went to Washington to negotiate the
treaty of annexation.
Mr.. Kinney was interviewed respect
ing the conditions existing in the Ha-
waiian island and said: THE Dole
government has been grossly misrepre-
scented and maligned by thirnhle-rig-
gers and politicians who migrated to
the islands for the sole purpose of grab
bling everything in sight and getting
their fingers into the supposed political
pie. The government had neither pie,
plunis nor land for them to fatten on
and they are seeking to be revenged by
parading their imaginary grievances
before the public. M
cat the time of the signing of the
act annexing the islands by PresE Tent
Mckinley, the treaty of annexation ex-
pressly3 stipulated that all Hawaiian
laws not inconsistent with the joint
4
ton of the United States were to re-
main in force. Under that provision the
Dole admins tration concluded TO en-
force the land laws as originally framed
by the Hawaiian government. Those
laws were part OF an elaborate but
equitable system. and provided for the
occupation of public lands by settlers
on certain terms and conditions. The
Dole administration encouraged inmt-
grafton and settling when il was or
such a character as to enhance the out
put of the property and develop the
productivenes9 Of heretofore untitled
soil, by dividing the unclaimed territory
into sections of area compatlple WItn
the size of the islands. and, disposing
of it to bona fide settlers at ridlculously
low figures.
Land Grabbers Came.
THE rumpus. as announced by the
newspapers, was caused by the influx
Of a class Of land grabbers. with no
fixed intentions of settling. and who
perverted the United States homestead
laws to their own selfish ends. They
interpreted the annexation treaty to
mean that they could obtain title to a
quarter-section of 100 acres, the same
as they could in Utah and other states,
and accordingly they proceeded in a
barefaced manner to gobble everything
H.
government was willing and anxious TO
sell the land at the extremely low val
uation of IS an acre, requesting the
! money as an evidence of good faith on
| the part OF the would-be settlers, -ncS
for mercenary motives. The settlers
could dispose oft the next day Tor ten
times that amount had they been so
disposed. But they wanted everything
for nothing, and then had the effrontery
to carry their claims to washington.
/ The department of the interior at first
| decided against the land grabneTs ana
/ later on reversed its decision by le'l-
/ ting. the matter remain IN statu quo
until congress conNenes this winter.
The Dole government does not encour-
age large holdings of land; they prefer
| a. large number of settlers, as 1t en-
genders thrift, economy and competl-
| ton. The American Sugar company has
about $4,000 acres, but it was pur-
| chased from private parties; not 1901
! of land has been sold since Dole was
| anpointed to office. and it Is we'll known
| in Honolulu that he is acting uIleasr or
| ders from. Washington.
Natives Should Vote.
"The Hawaiian commission consisting
of Senators Morgan and Cullen, Rep-
| resentative Hit, President Dole ana
| Judge Freer have recommended 10
/ Congress that the native Hawaiians be
granted enfranchisement and the right
I ia vote and there is no doubt their
recommendations will be favoraoly act
/ ed upon by the new congress An effort
/ was made to do it in the last congress,
/ but it was blocked by some OF the DEM
/ agogues:
/ tized because he did not put stop to-
4 the Asiatic influx. He tried to sIop
i ii in every possible and some Impossible.
/ WAYS. but his intentions were trus-
/ frafed by some of the washington pol
| iticians. and one or two foreign con-
4 suls, who are owned body md soul py
4 the Sugar trust. Dole encourages tIle
Eimrni ration Of Italians and Portuguese
4 and had completed arrangements
whereby a ship load of them We're TO
I tourney to Honolulu. but the con5uI AT
\ Madeira was fixed by the sugar
4 trust. He told them tales that caused
them to abandon the project ana de-
sert the ship before they reached tne
/ islands. The demands for laboIers We're
i incessant and so Dole admitted lVOVO
| Asiatics. Then there went forth. a howl
| against him that is still echoIng; ana
/ e. is without exception Tile most UNJUST
II criticism that man was ever suD1ecteu
TO- The administration OF public at
fairs and expenditures Of public moneys
T by the Hawaiian administration IS lhe
best possible, and has been most FAVOR
Il ably commented upon by every person
Il Of intelligence who has visited the is
lands. Neither the natives nor Presi-
4 dent Dole and his advisers are satIsfied
II with the present state Of political at
4 fairs in the islands. but they are hoping
that the measures proposed Win NOT
I be blocked by demagoguesl III the COM
ing congress-.
HOTEL GOSSIP