The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-17
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concerning which he is herein charged.
The appropriation herein provided for
shall be divided equally between the De
partment of Agriculture and the Depart
ment of the Interior, as the necessities OF
the Investigations of each shall demand.
Can any sane member of Congress eX-
plain why this proper and necessary pro-
vision was not included in the report of
the Conference Committee and made a
part of the Organic Act?
! There is no answer, other than care
lessness on the part of some and duplicity
on the part of others.
! By a provision, inserted in the Organic
! Act, eat the request of the special agent
or representative of President Dole at
Washington, the President of the United
States is requested to approve of the
official acts of the Hawaiian Land Depart
ment from the seventh day of July, 1898,
tc the twenty-eighth day of September,
1889; among other things to approve of
twenty-five separate deals whereby the
public lands of the United States in the
) Hawaiian Islands is disposed of to Jap
anese and Chinese, none of whom We're at
any time either citizens of Hawaii of
the United States; even the Hawaiian
Land Law provided against such transact
items. (See Sections 81 and IS. Land Act
OF 1885; quanncations of applicant) And
is also asked to approve of as many more
disposalS to corporations. 1t is clearly
wall did not want any investigation of
! Land Laws of Hawaii, or the proceed
ings hereunder" hence, the untiring eff
forts of their lobby at Washington to
have such provisions stricken out. In
place of which, wholesale approval is
provided for without investigation. Amer
lean citizens here in search of homes on
the public domain would like to know if
it is the intention of Congress to have all
the public lands in the Hawaiian Islands
disposed of to corporations and to Jap
anese and Chinese, while they are almost
wholly prohibited by reason of appraise-
ments so high for poor land covered with
almost impenetrable jungle, high up on
the mountain side, and by entering into
conditions and terms of payment that
1 would make Shylock blush
This association viii send the Land
Laws of Hawaii to any person applying
for the same. write to American Set
tiers Association, Olaa, Fl. ID When you
get the law you can judge for yourself
! The land law for the disposal of the
public lands in the Hawaiian Islands, the
property of the United States, remains
much the same as it existed under the
Republic of Hawaii, and so thoroughly is
1t repudiated by the people in the Islands
that the Republican party, in convention
assembled, at Honolulu, May go 1900
(Which was the only representative body
of men that assembled in the Hawaiian
ISIanuS during the past five years, if not
more. the Legislature not excepteD
adopted the following plank in its plat
form
I'VE declare ourselves in favor of the
extension of the homestead principle and
the enactment of such laws as will, with
the least difficulty and expense, provide
homes for the many"
This alone should be enough to convince
any reasonable man that change must
be made. 1t would have been useless for
the Republicans to put ticket in the field
without such a guarantee in their plat
FORM
A uniform homestead law for Hawaii
Is necessary and without delay. We there
fore ask Congress. at its second session,
to reconsider Section 70, of the Act ap-
proved April Both and repeal the same,
eracting in its stead homestead law that
will give an honest white man a chance
to live In Hawaii: a law that will tend
toward the development of the country;
law that will not turn back from our
shores the practical American farmer,
which has constantly been the result in
the past.
Respectfully,
AMERICAN SETTLERS ASSOCIATION
The two-column circular referred to-
contains Allan Herbert's argument
against long leases of land to the few
when they ought to go in the form of
small homesteads to the many: also
the Advertisers story of the Parker