The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-10-03
THAT GOD In ISRAEL"

The proclamation of the President,
declaring the sales of public land
since annexation to be void, is re-
garded by the journal that represents
the Opposition, as a public rebuke of
the Dole government by President
Mckinley. It's heartfelt glee over this
affair was expressed in the following
language, which is now exactly re-
peated;
Never in their official lives have
the officers of the Hawaiian Republic
faced such a complete upset of their
narrow, and independent methods of
conducting governmental business; new
er have they been brought to such a
forcible recognition that there is
God in Israel, that Hawaii is part and
parcel of the United States, that the
presence of the American flag in Ha-
wall possesses a meaning more power
full than a mere cloak to protect these
officials and their friends in warping
the Newlands Resolution into ways and
means to suit their pleasure"
The Bulletin, having personified the
Presidents order as God in Israel
working vengeance on his sinful and
rebellious servants, the Dole govern
ment, hardly took into account the
havoc which this God in Israel"
might work upon other and righteous
creatures of spotless virtue in these
Islands.
Here is an excellent illustration of
the way the Dole government has been
guilty of "warping the Newlands' Res
olution into ways and means to suit
their own convenience in the pre-
else language of that journal.
Messrs. Gear, Lansing & Co., have
constructed Artesian Water Works on
the northerly side of the kapahulu
road The Kaimuki tract of land,
which must be irrigated lies on the
southerly side of this road. In order
to carry the water from the wells to
this tract, pipes must be laid across
the government road. To do this,
Messrs. Gear, Lansing & Co. asked the
local government to warp the New
lands Resolution and grant to them
the right to use the road, by laying
pipe across it. This request the gov
eminent, just before this visitation of
the indignant God in israel" granted.
But Attorney General Grigss advises
the President that all of the public
lands which include the roads, and
public squares belong to the United
States, and the Dole government has
way in or across them than it has the
fright to authorize pipes to be laid
across private lot. For the granting
of right to lay a water pipe across
the Kapahulu road is assuming to
manage, interfere with, and put a
burden upon property owned by the
United States, since the Newlands'
Resolution passed.
It is clear therefore that Gear,
Lansing & Co. have urged the Dole
government to warp the Newlands'
Resolution as this advocate of their
Interests declares.
Under the order of the President, the
local government must forthwith noti-
lfy Gear, Lansing & Co. that the grant
of the right to lay water pipe across
the Kapahulu road, which is the ex-
elusive property of the United States,
is void, under the Presidents order.
1t should hardly be necessary for" the
local government to even send such a
notice. Gear, Lansing & Co. are loyal
lcitizens, and earnestly believe in flag
waving. They surely will voluntari-
lily send back to the government the
instrument granting them a perpetual