The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-12-24
II. M. SEWALL AN EAGER BIDDER
FOR HAWAIIAN GOVERNORSHIP

90 amount 90 weight may br hIlh'h ga
ID, .tn. rspresentntluus ~ 81 S..'.i.
when he declares himself thr ul.y
simun-purc Republican boss of o."
Territory.
Their. IL an exceptionally strong lla-
vaiian interest here this winter. a.
there are many prominent men from
the Islands. OF who have large int'f-
ests there. Ia the East. and they All
corn,. here to look into affairs. The RE
suit viii be- that there viii be absolut-
and complete knowledge Sf matters In
the Islands In the hands uf Congress
men aud heads at departments all tn
time Dnc thing which VIII haN"
weight is the fact that every one I'm
presses upon the members and secrr-
taii-s. as well. the fact that there
shuuld be- a thorough investigation Of
Hawaiian matters before there is any
radical legislation. Even Delegate
Wilcox. whose land bill is tine most eS-
tfaordinary thing imaginable. says he
faVors a committee to look into affairs
before there is any final legislation.
There is Il probability that this VIII
be the ending of the many reforms
which are to be instituted. The Off
cIals believe that there is something
III the classification OF lands as outlin
ed by Wilcox but they have heard &
much about small holdings that they
think there should be an investigation
before there is any law passed.
As | have intimated in previous let
ters, the Attorney General of the Unit
ed States knows right well just what
he missed i'm not having time tn read
all the evidence in the Humphreys
case. He did not have the time, but
he has since taken it.. He admitted to
one of his recent callers from the ISL
ands that he had not imagined that
the volume and aflidavits with 1t, con-
Iaireu the amount oi evidence lie had
since learned was in them. He said
something else which perhaps is not
known in Honolulu, that the synopsis
of testimony he asked for consisted.
when he got It. of only one page, and
that the very first sentence threw cold
water upon it To such an extent that
he did not attach anything like the
value to the evidence that he should.
Perhaps. too. it is not known that Car
tnonist Yardley is known and esteem
cd at the Department of Justice. While
here, Judge Humphreys filed with the
department., as evidence of extreme
malice upon the part of the Advertiser
"A set of the cartoons which the Adj
vprtiser printed from time to time.
The tenor OF the conversations of the
general run of the members of Con
gress who are here. is that the cOun-
try is short of labor. This is true oi
the South and Middle West, as well as
OF the extreme West. one member oi
the legislative branch of the govern,
ment who was in California during The
past summer. said to mo yesterday
that in his opinion If the matter %
| the permitting of Chinese laborers L
enter the country was left to the farm
ers of that state. he believed there
would be Il majority of the votes in it!
favor. The campaign against th'
Oriental is that of the skilled work
men, who fear his competition, fol
7 with his cheap way of living ther,
could be no other result than that h,
| would reduce the American artisan
> the pride of justly proud nation. t
the level of the peon and slave of thu
' South. and the cheap laborers of thu
more degraded districts of the Ole
t World. The problem would be to Se
. field labor, and as there seems no va!
4 in which this can be done withou
$ opening the trades to the cheapiabot
e there will be no change made in tn
4 Geary law, except to not limit it as Il
tir,a ID G.. l..