The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-02
THE BECKLEY MANIFESTO.

That Representative Beckley did not
write the anti-Dole resolution which
hears his name, goes without the say
ing. Who wrote 1t may be surmised,
both from the observation-disclosures
Grand Jury style of the document and
from the number of lies it tells.
The resolution states that the Cover
nor has "studiously maintained an at
titude of hostility to the Legislature
On the contrary the Legislature mas
studiously held an attitude of hostility
to the Governor. 1t insuited MIN De
cause. in sending messages to the Leg
islature. he signed his name without
his title, returning at least one OF such
messages to him on that account; 1t
tried to pry into his executive CORES
pondence with the President OF the
limited states. and into the work OF the
authorities before the Territory was or
eanized: it blackguarded him without
stint because he would not yield his APP
nointive power to the Home Rule
Marty throughout this trying exper-
fence the Governor has been patient,
dignifed and serene. violating none of
the responsibilities of his high post and
denying no legislative right or privl-
lege.
The resolution. which aims to de-
ceive President Mckinley into the be-.
lief that the Legislature has tried to
do it's duty, says that the subject OF
taxation has received earnest consider
alton" Every man in Hawaii who has
followed the proceedings of the Leg1s-
lature knows that this statement IS
humbug The removal of the tax from
female dogs did. indeed, enlist the keen
interest of Hawaiian members: bin
to tax sugar per ton was devised for
the sole purpose of making the plant
ers pay for having it killed; an income
tax bill was passed; but less considera-
ton was given these two last-named
acts-less by actual coun- of hours
than was squandered upon the spelling
of the word forty" in certain bill,
and upon the way the Governor signed
mis- messages. And no competent tax
system was devised in the end.
Much time, says the Beckley mani
festo, was spent III the consideration of
temperance legislation. The proper re-
oily to this statement OF fact is en-
braced in the query: Why, then, was
70 temperance legislation passed. the
Home Rule party having an immense
majority of votes? What effect did the
defence fund of the National Liquor
Dealers, Association have on the spirit
of the men for whom Beckely. speaks
in regard to passing temperance meas
ures? What quid pro quo did the
Home Rule statesmen who drank them
selves sodden at the Bungalow free bar.
day after day, give for the raw LIQUOR
thus handed out? For the Home Rul-
ers to talk of time being given I'D to
temperance legislation, using it as an
excuse for the failure of the Legisla-
ture. to make a record of faithful in
dustry, is to commit a cheap imperti-
Inence.
Much stress is laid upon the "un-
American" policy of Governor Dole. the
man who. of all others, and with these
Home Rulers fighting him at every
turn, made American rule in Hawaii
possible. The bald assurance of this
charge almost compels admiration IT
is made in the name of men who are
ana always have been Royalists some
Oh Whom were actually sentenced in
1893 FOR an attempt 60 restore the Oueen
10y force, and all of whom were on the
sioe on Spain in the war of 1898. men
whose leader, Wilcox, offered his
SWORD TO Aguinaldo, men who knop,
no more about Americanism than thew
40 about legislative honor, or the Eng.
lsh language or the business thew Iyare
chosen to administer.
Inc only thing that gives dignity 70
eae resolution is the fact that it goes
TOUT with the legislative hall mark Tho
Word Legislature" sounds large and
iine' put in the Hawaiian case it stands
LOT set of men, with but few eycan-
IONS who could not get more than FIVE
irlnutes hearing before a COMMITTEES NJ
consress' and whose views on anv snb.
'ect Oh public Importance are of less
weight than those of children. 1t will
fall to our citizens to make this point
clear to the President, assuming that
he will not instantly see it for himself.