The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-14

| The following leading article on Ha-
waiian matters appears in the Wash
ington Post. a journal which has uni
formly opposed annexation. It's sneor
at the Home Rule Legislature and the
| carpet-baggers is echoed by a large
part of the American press:
Meager press dispatches have given
only bare hints of the quarrels by
which people in the Hawaiian Islands
are now rent assunder. The political
smoke and lava flow are as if Mauna
Loa were in eruption. Our cheerful I'm
| perialists, however, pay no attention
to these things. To annex an island
they will throw themselves into a noble
| rage, and defy the world; but to gov
ern it well-faugh! such plodding work
| is not for them. They are after anoth-
er island by that time Who does not
remember the intimate knowledge of
] Hawaii displayed some years ago by
every annexationist in this country
| Why, the children in the street knew
| all about the wicked "monarchfsts" in
Honolulu and the heroic patriots
| who risked all in order to give away
| their country. But that was before
we got the Islands. Now that they are
ours, we care nothing for them. There
is something in the Bible about com
passing sea and land to make one
proselyte, and his turning out, when
made, twofold more the child of-weII,
the Imperialists are mighty in the
Scriptures, and it is not necessary to
complete the citation
The bitterest controversy in the Ter
ritory of Hawaii is that which is rag
ing between the Legislature and Gov
ernor. Under the terms of the organic
act, the regular session of the LegfS-
lature expired by Limitation on May l.
But it had not passed the necessary
appropriation bills, and there were
many other matters OF legislation
which had failed. Accordingly, a joint
resolution was passed requesting Gov
ernor Dole to extend the session. a
petition to the same effect was laid
before him by committee of Home
Rulers, but the Governor turned to
them with smile and said he should
refuse to do anything of the kind. He
added.
The time of the session has been
wasted by the lawmakers. and the
public funds have been dissipated
without accomplishing any good re-
suits.
have 1t on good authority that the
members of the Legislature have dis
regarded their oaths to such a degree
as to have been guilty of taking bribes
In consideration of their individual
EFFORTS in the interests of certain
measures which came before them L
nave this information on such excel
lent authority that it would be q dere-
LECTION of duty for me to hesitate In
this matter. and I Therefore deny the
petition and refuse to extend the ses-
sion as requested"
The leader of the Home Rulers
drew deep breath" when he heard
this. and "gasped with surprise Then
ne told the Governor that it was a
most serious charge which he had
made against the Legislature. and one
that every man Of honor among us
wants to see proved" He proba-
bly, meant disproved, unless ne was
an lrfshman, like that other CeIt who
went to lawyer to complain that so
and so had called him a liar: And 7
propose to make him prove IT.. Gov
ernor Dole. however, declined to prove
ms charges. though, as he has served
long on the bench and knows what ,e-
gal evidence is. and is not man Civ
en- to impetuous utterance, Il Is prob I