The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-06
DOES HIS OWN Thinking.
EMMELUTH CLAIMS HIS OWN
CEREBRATION.
Tells why the Prediction Record was
Overlooked by the Legislature-The
Autobiography Bill Fund.

EDITOR STAR: In an article on
the editorial page of 1.-The Star" of last
Saturday, with head lines Voice and
Hands" and dealing with my open let
ter in the Bulletin" of the previous
day. you attempt to ring in the
influence of a voice that sounds sill
very bell like, insinuating" 1t evidently
acquired it's "timbre" in some other
quarter etc.
"Silvery" and "insinuating" must
come dead easy as terms when asper-
sing the character and efforts of an op-
ponent in politics but the timber" of
which one is made is not so easy to
deal with.
1 do my own thinking, Mr.. Editor, and
in the fifteen years that L have written
to the Press of this city, everything
that has appeared over my signature
has been the product of my brains
whatever it is, it records only my per-
sonal views on the subject treated.
My education, though limited to the
Public Schools of an American city,
was of that sterling kind that taught
the value of self dependence and indi-
Nidual merit, and for that reason l deny
you the privilege of attributing to
someone other than myself, that for
which l alone am responsible; l deny
you the right to detract from my ability
to think for myself, to rob me of the
whether by voice or pen.
Designing persons may, through for
tuttous circumstances, be able to rob
me of my rights and privileges in the
soil or in the financial opportunities of
this life; You may differ with me and
differing, criticise both my actions and
my utterances. That is your privilege,
but neither your aspersions or insinua-
lions can for one moment cloud the is
sues before us, deter me or turn me
from the path of duty in the present
fight for the application of the Anne
rican system of government to this
Territory.
AS to your further criticisms, I have
only to state that had wise counsels
prevailed, the Home Rule element
would have made their initial stand in
the Legislature on Principle, then and
there inaugurating he fight for equal
lty which to my own eyes seemed in
evitable and which is now on.
The majority of Home Rulers thought
to pursue pacific course in order not
to antagonize, in advance, any inter-
ests opposing the general plan of Anne
ricanizing our existing forms of gov
ernment thus leaving the Legislature
at the tender mercies of those whose in
tluence has been used for the perpetual
ton of class conditions, and it was for
the double purpose of placing the Party
ABOVE the personal record possibly
made by its representatives and the i'm
putatlon of a peace at any price policy
which prompted them to overlook the
prediction record of certain Senators
when organizing the legislature might
suggest, that the open letter was writ
ten.
Coming to your Interpretation of the
duty of the Governor in so far as cor
ruption is charged, we will leave that
for the public at large to judge.
Your closing paragraph says: when
one comes to consider the letter, 1t pres
ents a too intimate knowledge with the
! financial arrangements of the campaign
and it must have come from someone
who bribed, and failed" What do you
mean, Mr.. Editor about "the financial
arrangements of the campaign" Is
| your statement based on "hearsay' or
is it another graft" for the Grand
Jury which it is rumored will take up
this entire matter at an early date.
In Verification of my attitude as out
lined in the letter you criticize and with
| determination to hew to the line, let
the chips fall where they will, 1 would
| state that since writing my open letter
| think | have located about $4,000 out
of the $4,000 1t has been charged were
| in sight for the defeat of the Dspen-
sary bill, and on opportunity will
yield such information as have to any
legally constituted body for investiga-
ton.
Let the Governor probe. Let the
Grand Jury be called. Let justice be
done though the Heavens fall, and the
bribed and briber go to jail
Yours for immolation, If need be,
JOHN EMMELUTH.