The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-12
TIE CARPET BA. GER.


greet the newcomer and do well by
him when he wins and deserves public
confidence, is as much ayerse 70 the
carpet-bagger as the Southern States
were during the reconstruction period.
/ All it asks are good anCecedents, non
orable character and a reasonably IN
fish purpose; and when 1t finds a
newcomer with these titles to respect
It's doors 10 all kinds of preferment are
thrown widely open. On the other
hand, man who comes TO HAWAII TO
DO politics or TO make his way by I'M
derhanded means, is pretty certain to
meet as unpleasant a reception as that
which turned Ce.so Caesar Moreno and
Julian ID. Hayne into bitter and noisy
foes of the missionaries" There
nave been many Morenos and Haynes,
large and small, among us, and the
most of them who survived the ch1l
Of exposure are chiefly engaged in
abusing the mythical family COM
pact" The carpet-bsgger has as
strong views of the compact" as the
average confidence man has of the pc
nal statutes. What he calls by that
name is the safe and conservative pub
ic sentiment, by no means confined to
groups Of cousins, which wants to
know a man and what he stands for,
before entrusting him with serious re-
sponsibillties.
During the early days a young col
legian came to Hawaii and in a short
time won the respect and confidence
Of the people, who made him Chief
Justice. His subsequent career was
distinguished. Many influential mem
bers of the reform parties or Minis
tries here had similar experience. We
believe that General Hartwell became
a Judge and Attorney General while
newcomer and a youth not yet in his
ohirties; and the list Of successful ma
.Ihinis might be extended through all
the departments Of our public and
commercial life. The other day the
Government made an important Pub
&c Works functionary and a Circuit
Judge out OF men whose names have
but recently become familiar. but
which stand for the sort of citizenship
Hawaii demands of its trusted wardens
and representatives. They are both of
i type as far removed from the faint
of earpet-bagging as they are from
that of crime.
1t Is a most fortunate circumstance
for Hawaii that its people discriminate
as they do, for IL the carpet-bagger
had been given way and room, these
Islands would long ago have been
plundered worse than Louisiana /, was
litter the Civil War. The occasions
when the predatory stranger got a fair
Gald upon Office were highly instruct
i've, as witness the career OF Walter
genius that the trade of carpet-basging
ever brought to these shores. Moreno
was Prime Minister just long enough
to show what a dangerous and costly
burden he was likely to become Colo
mel Volney Ashford, whose ambitions
sighted the throne itself, must not be
forgotten. These are men of a class
which no land can afford to endow
with responsible positions nor accept
as factors of it's constructive politics.
But many such are coming and some
are already here. Happily, the Cullom
bill in its amended form has excluded
the degenerate political stand-bys of
he Mainland who lately aspired to the
Governorship. There are others, occa-
sionally heard from in all parts of the
| Union, who want to force themselves
into judicial positions. One of these
has already pitched his tent at Hilo
and blown blast upon his strideDt
| bugle. There may develop at any time
a conspiracy to give us an imported
/ Collector of Customs. One Dr. Davis
proposes 10 have the Federal Govern
ment take charge of our sanitation.
probably with the idea OF coming here
as a Commissioner. No end of
schemes like these will crop up il the
/ Cullom bill becomes a law and the
voice of the carpet-bagger will be heard
in the land as it never was before. But
Hawaii. by dint Of long experience. has
learned how to handle these pestifer-
Gus gentry and the outlook for them.
however they may now regard It. is
far from agreeable.
CHOPPER On EAUAI