The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-02-17
1T MAKES THEM RAIL

up all manner of bowls Like the thief who joins in
the cumming crowd. shouting Stop thief" So they
have begun shouting Stop thief" to the mem
bers of the Legislature because the members
OF that body propose to right some of the wrongs
inflicted upon the people by the family compact
der the dicsation CT the Devils Partner That
tain fire claims were legitimate ard should be paid
was recognized by, the Dole administration year
ago and the Council of State then in existence pro-
vided for Court of Claims adjust the claims But
certain people objected the personnel of the court
as appointed by the then President, Dole. and
the Court OF claims allowed die of hamilton.
But because the Court of Claims was allowed to die
the dictaton of certain interests the just claims
of property owners did not die That the Territory
cannot be sued under existing statutes every
knows, hence the only redress of the people is
through the Legislature.
The Republicans of the Territory themselves rec
ognized the business of these claims. for in their
platform adopted by the Territorial convention last
September they declared: I'VE fsvor the payment
OF all lust claims for losses caused by action
the Board OF Health in suppressing Dubonic plague"
That ex-Queen LiIiuokaani should be paid for the
crown lands, which were her personal property and
of which she robbed when the monarchy
overthrow every far-nainded in Hawaii
cedes. In lieu of the public buildings and lands.
the latter having been lands the United States
assumed the national debt of Hawaii when the latter
annexed to the United States. When the
Queen appealed to Congress for restitution for the
lands of which she had been despoiled, members of
both houses, and notably Of the leaders of the
Senate, informed her that the Territory of Hawaii
should reimburse her for the lands. That the United
States had paid the Territory for them by assuming
its debt and that she should look the Territory
for justice. Again did the Republican party recog-
nize the justice of the exQueens claims for in its
platform adopted last September it declared:
I'VE advocate that liberal allowance be appro-
priated by the Legislature the use and benefit of
Liliuokalanr
OF course. upon the reasoning of the Devils Part
ner" and his organ, this resolution meant nothing; it
was simply introduced for buncombe; merely to
catch native votes and the Republicans had no in
tention of ever appropriating any for the ex-
Queen. That may have been their reasoning. but we
do not believe that the honest i,epubiican members
of the Legislature will stand by any such translation
of plain proposition They indissoluably
pledged to vote money for just payment of fire
claims and for the ex-Queen as are the Indepen-
dents.
But the strangest part Of all the Advertisers bad
breaks is its declaration of what the sugar interests
allied with the trust the mainland will do
through Congress if the members of the Legislature
of this little Territory perform their plain duty
This is the way it rants
Now it ought to be clear that business has
the decisive hand in the legislation of the United
States. Business passed the Dngley tariff it
passed the gold standard BILL it carried expan-
sion measures in the interests OF trade it put
up the money which settled the campaign bills
OF the Republican party in the late quadrennial
fight Business is king. McKiney's is bust
ness administration The voice of business goes
further with 1t than does other voice
patriotism. And let add that a very large sum
was asked last fall of the business interests of
Hawaii by the Republican National Committee.
the money secured and more will be asked
for next time Is any simple as to suppose
that the Republican leaders Congress are go
ing to stand idly by and see so generous q con-
tributor robbed make holiday for a party
that opposes. the Republicans and would ruin the
material welfare of Hawaii if it could?
We feel certain be of anything
in the future that If the Legislature passes the
plumber bills. the native suffrage will not last
year longer. The great sugar interests of Ha-
wall. affiliated as they are with sugar inter-
of the United States. could appeal to Con-
gress with persuasive force not to be resisted
least of all by a nondescript Delegate whose
ity and incompetence his most conspicuous
traits. The general business interests whose
prosperity ados much to the customs reyen-
ues of the Union and to mainland trade could in
making an appeal for relief. get the aid OF all
its mainland connections. II necessary the pres
sure of bilnon dollars could be brought on Con-
gress and where that pressure used legiti-
mately and m good cause no Congress could
: resist it"
or all the ridiculous twaddle it has been our lot
to see in the Organ this leads the Even grant
ing that every word of what it saw true, the
very publication of that fact would defeat effort
that the sugar planters might put forth The Organ
seems to forget that there ID such thing as public
sentiment in the United States And an the com
bined wealth Of the Sugar trust and the Oil trust
and the Steel trust and the Railroad and every
other trust cannot ride down public sentiment
Congress has enough to do to attend to It's duties
OF national legislation without paying attention to
purely local affsirs in Hawaii This is shown BY the
difficulty of securing needed legislation for the Dis
trict of Columbia Even the pressure Of billion
dollars would not be SUFFICIENT to csuse Congress to
take up the fight of the monied interests Of Hawaii
against those of the plain people No body OF men
in the world quicker TO the trend OF events
than the men in national politics Let the sugar
planters but cab upon the Republican party to aid
them against popular suffrage here. because Of
campaign contributions. and then cal upon the
Sugar fruEt and IFS allied Interests to aid then and
the Republican party would go down to defeat more
sweeping than that Of 1881
Already people are becoming aroused 1t the enor-
nous combinations Of capital in Amer1cA Men stand
ashast 1t the thought Of II ana declare ut existing
conditions which permit Of sucA consolidation *
capital must Be wiped out There = feezins u