The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-12-02
WHY SHOULD HE?

take up. and the only argument
brought forward in favor is a sort OF
eldritch screech from the personal OPP
ponents of the Governor that he has
used his power of veto and that he will
not yield to the desires of venal poll
ticians. What is he in his position for
II ne cannot use his power of veto.
Hundreds of Governors all over the
United States have used their right to
veto. II Governor Dole had not used
his right of veto upon some of the
crude bills which were presented to him
for signature, one wonders where the
Territory would be now. Undigested
and crude legislation is worse than no
legislation at all. Had some of the
bills, and especially the county bill,
been signed, the Territory would by
this time have been in a state which
one almost shudders to contemplate.
The Star can thus speak of the
measure because it very firmly believes
in both county and municipal govern
ment and long before the Legislature
met a series of articles upon both sub
jects appeared in these columns, care
fully thought out and with an effort to
apply study of experience on the main
land and elsewhere to conditions here.
1t is no easy task to give good legis-
lation. The anarchist, the socialist
and the half educated political fool
think that there is nothing easier in
the world To reach good results re-
n1liraG Nv mir,
of study, and of balancing evidence de-
duced from facts, second, a mind
capable of seeing both sides of a ques-
tion and not only one side, that is it
requires an unbiased mind from which
the element of self interest and of sell
fish hatred is entirely eliminated, third,
it requires experience, and ripened ex-
perience. There have been rare cases
of genius overcoming experience, but
1T will always be found that the sup
posed genius has had the assistance of
the experience of others and has had
special opportunities of education in
the particular line.
One has only to go through the annals
of the past Legislature to thoroughly
stand firm in refusing an extra ses-
sion. There was nothing even after
the session had spun it's long course
which could give any warrant for
thinking it would act with more COM
mon sense now, than it did during it's
initial period. The Legislature knew
what the needs of the Territory were.
They co ia,
message, and We're supplemented by
detailed reports from the various de-
partments. The Governors message
was ostentatiously fouted till the end
of the session when there was a scram-
BILE to use the Governors figures for
the appropriation bill, because the
members could not agree upon any of
their own. The detailed reports were
never read except by very few mem
bers of either Senate or House, and the
statistics fell upon stony ground in
deed.
The Home Rule, or dominant party.
had spent over two months in prepar-
ing for the session. There were two ses-
Aions, one a regular session, one a spe-
49, 'Nf'9ioll III Tire purpose OF provide
ing ways and means In all, this
amounted to some six months of
time. And the result was that the
mountain labored and as far as finan-
ces We're concerned did not bring forth
anything, not even a mouse. 1t was
all wind, wind, wind and nothing else.
And goodness, gracious what wind it
how IL
swept through the air in gusts. How
wise the arguments were, what magni-
hcent chunks of wisdom were hurled
upon the circumambient atmosphere.
With such a record, a record of vast
ed time, wasted energy, what more can
be expected now than was ACCOMPLISH
ed then? If nothing was accomplished
in two months of preparation and near
~ -FOUR months of session, what can be
expected from an extra session again
save probably fifty thousand dollars of
expenses, and the presentation of fat
printing bills, and a general game of
gran all round the House. The lean
and hungry Cassus look is upon sew
eral of the noble Senators and Repre-
the Treasury, there would be very few
coins left after the said most illustrious
Senators and Representatives had got
through.
The extra session cry, so loudly rails
ed, comes from men who are not eager
Tor the advancement of the Territory,
who are not bothered about financial
depression or otherwise, but comes
from men who hope to fill their pockets
from the Treasury which they hope to
NIL out Of the pockets of the taxpayers
and the loan subscribers. 1t may be a
pinch just for a time, but it is better to
stand short pinch than to take the
undoubted disaster of an extra session.
A I O.