The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-08
oIyE THOUGHT ANp WORK

The necessity of our Keeping ever bee
fore as measures NOT men, must hg
plain 10 amy one who studies govern
ments either boz America or Europe.
Why are our results boz the United
States SO successful. 10 is because ON
lines are laid down on such "a solid
basis that man cannot mar them. We
have had good executives and We have
had somewhat foolish executives, but
the latter could do little OF no perma-
nent injury, because they cannot i'm
iure the solid foundations Of the Re
public
In the South during the period after
the war, much wrong was done by in-
judicious and in many cases pernicious
legislation urged on by irresponsible
and self seeking men. Any one who
has made a study Of the South from
an impartial standpoint must freely
recognize this, and in point Of fact IL
has been recognized and set forth by
the best Of American writer's, as it was
recognized by the late President and is
recognized by the present one. The mis-
takes and the wrongs in the South We're
caused in the main by the bane Of
Office seeking. There We're Offices to
get, and there were countless harpies
eager for them. These had the oppor-
tunity Of getting in the ascendent and
they simply bent Legislation their own
way. However those times are in a
measure passed now.
What we want 20 do in this Territory
is to build on the lines Of the Republic,
10 build on lines which lay down strong
foundations and which do not tend to
mere Office creating and plundering of
Taxpayers. To reach such point we
must not depend upon some one else
doing our work for us, we must do it
ourselves. If we intend to have good
Legislation we must have thoughtful
legislation, and we must not depend up
ON casual and picked up legislation.
This Territory has enormous interests
at stake. Hawaii is no undeveloped
Territory, it is a very developed Terri
tory. 1t came into, the galaxy Of the
Union, very much as Athene was tabled
TO have done into the Greek hierarchy.
With us it is not the establishment Of
law and order, where no law and order
ever ruled before, save the crack Of the
frontiers mans rife, and the revolver
of n fearless, and not always too scrup-
ulOus a sheriff. We have had law and
order established for years, and Grim
inals have been punished for their
crimes by proper legal process. 1t is no
crude community, but a law abiding,
though often misrepresented commune
ity which came to the United States by
the act of Annexation.
Such being the case it depends upon
ourselves to show that we are really
worthy of the position we have held in
The past. We have our own immediate
future in our own hands. Either those
of US who have the true commercial
and productive interests Of the Islands
are going to guide the Territorial policy
upon lines which shall be Of advantage
to the future, or we are going to have
a reign of simple office seeking and the
making Of laws which will foster Office
seeking.
Before us now we have the organiza-
ton OF our Territory upon the true
American plan, and If we want to do
that we must face our duties as Wash
ington, Franklin, jefferson and that
brilliant circle Of men did, who dehed
an empire for loye of liberty but who
did not mean that liberty meant license. |
1t may be deemed invidious to compare
our small territory with the beginnings
of the United States, but every portion |
of the United States must live by and |
up to it's ideals Those ideals were set |
by the men above mentioned, and we |
cannot go far astray if we follow them.
The Republican party here has duty |
before it, 1t has 10 educate the people
TO realize their duty. This the Republic
can party has recognized and proposes
10 carry out. This education must be
in the line OF what true citizenship and
true territorial duty is, Had the pNnd
guides been listened to the Territory
of Hawaii might have been plunged IN
10 inextricable confusion. Fortunately
it was not put into such a false posi-
tion. What we have to work for now
is that it should be firmly set in
course where II will very difficult to
send it astray, and where the III acts
of half a dozen men cannot injure its
true stability.