The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-13
STOP QUARRELING.

ering and would drop personal abuse,
IL might win back some title of the
respect which it has lost. To what end
for instance is the personal abuse of
Governor Dole. 1t only gains him strong
friends who would otherwise be luke
warm, it further turns many enemies
into friends. Only abuse man enough
and you make him strong. Viruent
abuse is like misused boomerang it is
more dangerous to the person who
throws, than to the person at whom it
is thrown. 1861.
The Legislature through it's own lack
of unity in the majority, has put the
Territory in an awkward position. Much
needed Legislation has had to be held
over. 1t would have been better to have
had it now, but what can't be can't be-
We must do without as best we can,
and the lesson taught should be a valu-
able one to the voters. The policy of
revenge which dominated the majority
is clearly a failure. This Territory
needed policy of reconstruction not of
destruction. 1t needed a junction of
parties to work for the common good.
1t did not need a disintegration of
parties and howl for scalps and a way
ing of CORY tomahawks,
1t is the personal element in the po-
licy of the majority which has wrecked
it's usefulness. Each legislative war
rior had some particular foe whom he
wished to scalp. But then each legisla-
tive warrior had some friend whose
scalp he wished to save, and the result
was division in the council tent, and
disaster outside.
OF those, and there were some in. the
ranks, who looked at matters in a
broader view, DIR. Russell stands out
clearly. His measures, though they
called forth criticism were not personal
measures, either for his own advan-
tage, or for the personal advantage of
his friends. They were intended to adj
vantage the whole community. That
they would actually do so is of course
open to debate, but that is not the
question. 1t is the motive that is in
question and certainly the motive was,
in all DR.. Russels bills a good and
broad one. He would have been far
more successful with his bills had he
had for colleagues men who regarded
Legislation from broad principles and
not from personal and office seeking
standpoints.
Much point has been made over the
county bill, and we have had fiery
TRADES over how the rights of the peo-
pie have been overriden by the Cover
nor, and illusions to William Tell kos
ciusco, Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale,
and no doubt later we shall get allus-
ions to the Chicago Anarchists and the
Russian Nihilsts, and the Gamma
Gael. 1t is all very fiery and quite
thrilling to hear or to read, but it can
reach no end. No Governor could sign
the county bill in it's present state, be-
cause it is crude and contradictory, and
it's financial clauses would throw the
territory into anarchy because of omis-
mions and contradictions.
The history of the bill has been told
over and over gain. 1t arrived in the
House an undigested mass, a great
deal of which was utterly unintelligible
as was shown at the time. 1t was pared
down, and made somewhat Ineligible
but the House passed it in a hurry,
trusting to the Senate to put it into
legal shape The members of the Re
publican party in the Senate were
honestly willing to go to work on the
measure and put it into shape. but the
majority did not see any necessity for
doing anything more than passing it as
it was. 1t has been suggested that
among the majority there were those
who wished to Ccfeat the bill, and took
this method of IT,. owing the blame from
their own shoulC~.s upon those of the
Governor, who, taey knew, could not
sign such an una sted and crude do
cument. No man in his senses could
sign the county bin as it now stands
and were a governor not in his senses
to sign it, it would never stand the first
tilt in court of law.
At this stage Of the session what is
the use of wasting time upon recrimina-
ton and squabbling. What the Legis-
lature should give it's full attention to-
is the appropriation bill. And in go
ing into reduction, which it must do
it should be actuated by broad motives
and not by personal motives. 1t should
regard the value of the office and not
the value of the man. Reductions
should be made a definite PLAN and q
haphazardi slash here, and another
there, with a reduction in one depart
ment so as to cripple it, and no reduc-
ton in another for purely personal rea-
sons. If the Legislature works on broad
lines it might rehabilitate itself. Does
it care to do SO? Who can answer the
question.
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