The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-04
HAWAII LUCKIER
THAN THE OTHERS
Islands Skipped Military Period
of Transition To a
Territory.

i The United States, says the Wash
ington Star, has never permitted the
Declaration of Independence to pre-
vent it from governing the territory
belonging to 1t on paternal principles
in the manner which 1t deemed wisest
and most beneficial to the national
household.
All men being created equal, &C
cording to the Declaration of indie
Evidence, they are equal from birth,
and under the aLti-imperialstic the
DRY the government by force of the
non-consenting infant through the me-
dunn of the coercing slipper smacks
of Imperialism.
However, notwithstanding the Dec
laration of Independence, the individ-
ual undergoes a preliminary prepare
tory period before the enjoyment of
any Of his rights. His legal and po-
litical rights are postponed until he is
twenty-one.
The communities of individuals, col
lected on territory belonging to the
United States. undergo a similar pc
riod of infancy or wardship, and the
period when they become of age and
begin to enjoy full American rights is
not arbitrarily fixed, but varies with
the quickness with which the popula-
tons develops In numbers, intelligence
and fitness to participate in the ma
tional government.
First comes arbitrary military gov
eminent (militarism), the period of in
fancy, when the guardian is a despot,
benevolent or otherwise, and when the
republics government is unmistakable
Imperialism and militarism. Next i'm
perfect civil, government Imperial
ism), in which the governed are not
represented, the period of childhood
and schooling, when the republics
government is still Enthusiastically i'm
perialistic, though the soldiers are
withdrawn. Next, organized territor-
ial government (incipient republican,
ISM, the period of youth Immediately
preceding manhood, under which the
governed exercise a measure Of loca
self-government, but do not participate
on constitutional equality In the ma
tional and ultimately controlling gov
eminent. And, lastly, statehood (ful
republicanism) the period of manhood
when the governed constitute an int
grail part of the national government
and for the first time enjoy the op
portunity OF registering their consen
to be governed.
Under the policy and practice OF thu
republic the people of annexed ter
!. ritory belonging to the United State
pass through all these stages.
The period OF militarism Is easil.
traceable in the records of California
Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico AM
Alaska, and the Philippines are in thi
stage today, though the foundations o
imperfect civil government have bee
: laid through the Taft commission
which took control of legislative au
thority September 1. 1900.
$ The period of imperialism or imper
feet civil government was experience
:, by Louisiana and other Territorie!
v Alaska Is In that condition today. POI
d to Rico Is on the border line betwee
8 this and the succeeding class.
% In the period of incipient republ
: canism is Hawaii. along with Ne
e Mexico and the other organized terri
o tories.
e When it Is remembered that AlasB
" was in the first period for sixtee
e wears. and on the border between tt
= first and second for another slxtee
n years. and has not yet attained TT
r third period, even v ith the legislatio
k of 1900, the rapidity with which oil
= latest acquisitions have been pushe
toward American self-government
v remarkable. Even before guerril
re fighting Is over in the Philippines Il
IT beginnings of civil government are b
4. ing sedulously fostered the e by g
.. able commission acting under dire
ly instructions OF the administrator
p Porto Rico. after a short period
,r military occupation. was by the fir
legislation OF Congress concerning
~ pushed through the seco- reriod al
ne to the very border OF organized teri
ne torial government. Hawaii skipped Il
in first or military period entirely. al
rs after a short prob ton in the seeoT
stage, was organized as a territor
at Rapid transit in the development
h. American se'f-qove rment has mark
the history of our latest Acquisition
IN eycen' tbe mi ippiDes. end will be
III evidence there as soon as order is 7