The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-12-08
DlSFRANCHlsEMENT NOT PROPOSED

The Evening Post has not, since tie
retirement of Editor Godkin, ga ned IN
political sincerity and fairness. In its
discussions of Hawaiian matters Tor
years, past the Post has had a hlgh
disdain for facts, and a special fond
ness for unwarranted opinions; and 1t
would appear that, in the future, there
is to be no Improvement Its present
delusion is that the Dole party has
made up its mind to move in Congress
to have the suffrage privileges OF the
natives taken away, though, in point
of fact, there is no such program or
intention, the white influence here be-
ing willing to give the natives every
chance to prove themselves worthy OF
oitizensbip and to help them on their
onward way. All they ask Is Nhat 'he
natives shall not commit excuses 10
tho detriment of values and the als-
rrntion of vested rights, or to enter
upon a carnival of spolls.
II has always seemed unfortunate
that the Evening Post, with its aplhl9
and influence. should be stubbornly
hind to the kinship OF spirit anu
method which exists between us own
better aims in the politics OIL Ne"
Work. and the nation and those which
inspire the good government party
here. The men whom the POST calis
"o,isarchs" are simply those who have
givan their time and energies for
wears. at much cost in self-sacrlhce'
IN create a system of orderly and eco
nonical administration of public al
fairs They are the men who have
opposed the plunderer, the taxeater'
the machine politician and the dema-
gogue with courage and success. Ihey
have made the same fight for good
government here which the POST mas
made in New York, and they are
making it yet. Were the conditions
in New YORK as they are here we I'M
agine the Post would propose as a
remedy all that it gratuitously and
On the basis of false Information
charges against the sincere reformerS
of Hawaii. Let us put the question III
concrete form. If the Evening Post
could by means of legislation, llmi'
| the suffrage of the ignorant and vi
cious who make up the lower person
mel of Tammany, would it not do So
If il could lawfully substitute its circle
of best citizens for such officials as
Croker and Van Wyck appoint, would
| il not Jump at the chance from hlgf
sense of public duty? From its pas
attitude against the rule of the blacl
majority in the South, and in favor o.
the political ascendancy of the better
class of whites we can get line upor
| its principles which warrants us ii
| the hypothesis we have drawn. The
truth is that the white people here
nave addressed themselves with &
more forbearing patience and morality
TO the political attitude OF our voting
majority than the Post ever did to the
attitude of the same majority in New
York or South Carolina. And that
| forbearance continues. Though the
Hawaiian native electorate has little
OF the American character as yet, and
some of it has much of heather char
acter, yet Acknowledgement is not an
approved local remedy. The Senators
and Congressman who framed the Gull
lom bill thought otherwise; but the
great majority of the so-called "oli-
garchs" are firm in the belief that the
natives will yet, under proper guild
ance, illustrate the truth that liberty,
in its relation to the affairs of men.
has an application as wide as human
ity itself