The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-03-10
FREE SOIL, FREE HOMES.


that. except during eight years. has been in pow
er since 1861 and IS given new lease of life for
four years more has for its two principal corner
stones Free Soil and Free Homes In 1852 and in the
city Of Pittsburg was initiated the platform of the
Free Soil party the party that the real origin nf
the Republican party. The two following paragraphs
were contained in that platform:
1I-~That ali men have a natural right to
portion Of the SOIL and that the use Of the soil
is indispensable TO life, the right of all men to
the soil is sacred their right to life itself
"i2-Thai the public lands of the United States
belong to the people and should not be sold to
individuals nor granted corporations. but
should be held as sacred trust for the benefit Of
the people and should be granted in limited
quantities. free OF cost TO landless settlers
In 1859 the Republican platform more broadly ex-
pressed the policy of uniting citizenship with land
holding follows:
'Is-That we protest against any sale alien
alton to others Of the public lands held by actual
settlers and against any view of the homestead
policy which regards the settlers paupers
supphants for public oounty; and We demand
the passage by Congress of the complete and
satisfactory homestead measure which has al
ready passed the douse.r
The Republican party did enact the homestead
law. By that law the broad of the Union were
opened up actual settlers and the plains and val
leys of the west from the Ohio river to the Pacific
ocean occupied and settled so that the wastes
of 1852 the rich and happy homes of mil
lions of loyal and intelligent Americans.
II is not American to go backward. The same
ideas that were expressed by the founders of the
Repubc-that America was the asylum for the
oppressed of all clmes that in these United States
the poorest could safely aspire TO own his own
hat I,n
and patriotism and true national greatness is the
tying Of the citizen the soilof ndissolubly con-
meeting the family with the homestead.
Ask Congress TO reverse the processes that have
made the United States the richest and most power
fnl nation earth There have been too many
wrongs perpetuated in the past history of these Ha
waian Isles that have uprooted its people from the
soil 1t is the idea of civilized sentiment and patri-
otto impulse that these islands shall be studded with
the homes of intelligent and lritty American citi-
zens. Monopoly and greed favor the Asiatic and
semi-slave elements of humanity; they prefer alien
residents alien toll and alien interests Monopoly
favors absenteesm: il favors the wrnging of divi-
dends from the soil and leaving nothing for the fu-
turo-the squeezing of the lemon to the last drop
of Juice and then casting away the rind
Monopoly fails to consider Hawaii as a bulwark
of liberty on the western coast of the Republic it
falls short Of the patriotism that relies upon an intel
hgent and powerful and loyal American citizenship
for a flank guard against the enemies of the Great
Republic There is no statecraft in greed. Monopoly
OF land holding is inmical to progress civilization
intelligence and power. Absentee landlordism will
never defend and protest and these islands for
the future citizenship must be nurtared and grown
with the sofia citizenship that is distinctly Ameri.
can in origin and development and frution-that per-
mits the United States TO stand above the nations
of the earth without superior or even an equal
years considered
And yet the Dole policy is TO undo the glories Of
American history and work out the plan of greed
that shall temporarily benefit the absentee: that
shall work the waste of these island glories until
their verdured wales and fields and hilsides shall
fade into the barrenness of an ocean rock