The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-15
ISSUE OF THE CAMPAIGN.
All Important Topic as Viewed
from Southern Standpoint.

From the SHgar Planters yoaraal.l
What Is the issue of the campaign: !:
Ask the republicans. and they claim that
boiled down the issue is the full dinner
pail: ask the democrats. and they con-
tend that imperialism along with every
subject calculated to catch the hybrid ele-
ments. the anarchists. socialists and other
political heretics. is the main issue.
What decides for the individual the par
~ for which he ought TO give his stamp
Of approval in casting his vote: Is it the
obscure results deduced by philosophical
and dialectic reasonings or discussions,
or is it the plain results arrived at by the
observations and operations of principles
working out on a practical basis: Is it
theory or practice. where practical appli-
cation confounds theory? To our mind
there is but one answer. that which works
out on a practical basis for the greatest
good of ALL OF that we shall treat.
Each state in congress. through its rep
reSentatives. strives to secure that which
will mostly develop its local industries.
What is good for one may he working
petty hardshipS on another. but by over
balancing these petty hardships with mu-
tual concessions, each state is thereby
placed in position TO endure those Gus
toms laws enacted for the good of another
section. which do not work locally bene-
fetal; in this way each section is devel-
oped by the sufferance of the others.
which in turn are themselves developed in
like manner. thus redounding to the
general welfare by the growth and power
Of each and every community. Such
has always been good republican doe
trine.
Every man votes according TO some rea-
soning, some according to their convic-
tons. when not swayed by prejudice. vote
after an honest digest of the issues some
never arrive at proper decision. but vote
the way friend tells them. or for whom
they believe most likely TO win. Upon
these two classes the result of the cleo
ton depends. To them is addressed this
calm survey of what we. in Louisiana
should do. without allowing prejudice TO
blind our eyes and beaded our senses.
We. in Louisiana. know the benefits of
republican policies and the failures of
democratic principles; how the sugar and
rice industries have marvelously developed
under republican administration and
protective tariff. and how higher prices
have prevailed whilst on the other hand
how crippled were our planters under the
Wilson democratic free trade and tariff
for revenue only act. even TO the point of
succumbing. only 10 be reinvigorated by
return to the fostering care of the Dingley
protective law. Every man dependent for
his livelihood upon the sugar industry is
deeply interested in this, from the owner
of a magnificent plantation. no matter
how wealthy he may be. to the lowliest
laborer on his place What benefits the
employer is no less beneficial to the en-
ploye: what destroys the business of the
first deprives the latter also OF that chance
10 make his own living. But we are told
that no longer is the republican party the
protector of Louisiana's industries. and
AAAr ~ va II katStu us TIE
6ugaboo TO scare the voters of this state
into supporting the democratic ticket.
\ few words can dispose of this argu-
ment and reduce the reasoning almost to
absurdity. They contend that with the
democracy lies the only salvation for the
Louisiana sugar planter: that. what with
the acquisition of our island possessions
and their future development. the chief
industry of this state will be ruined. Such
they attempt TO maintain is the policy of
the republican party. But are they cor
rect? We now have the Hawaiian sugar
on the free list and no one feels the eff
fect of ruinous competition: Cuban su.
gar is and will be prevented from COM
peting freely with our own: the Philip
pines don not. as Vet. produce enough to be
considered as factor. and certainly il is
unreasonable TO suppose that the repub-
Ican party in power viii allow the people
of our own sugar producing sections to
ianguish for the benefit of the islanders.
But what of the democrats: Even if
the possessions into which We have come
by the right of conquest and to which We
must grant the civil and righteous liberty.
as we know il. were relinquished. as they
believe ought 10 he done. will sugar De |
protected. The effects of one democratic
regime. of recent date. on the sugar in |
dustry can never be. forgotten the same
disaster. only more formidable and stu |
Iendous than before. will befall the state
Of Louisiana. with its greater investment |
IN and dependency on its sugar industry. |
il return to- power OF the democratic |
party is accomplished. The results wonld |
be the same. imperialism or no --imperi- |
aiis,n. Sugar VIII enter in either case
free or practically 50.
Is it not infinitely better TO trust the /
future TO republican administration /
which has been tried twice with such sue
,ess, than TO the democratic party. whose
policy we have been ill-advised enough /
TO trust onee and which still clauors for
the same old issue Of ruinous free trade.
together with newer ones. and which viii
produce disaster again. even If We do not
save the socalled Imperialism I