The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1902-04-22
PLACE FOR HOME RULERS.

No longer need the Home Rulers
wander about the ranges of national
politics like bunch of mavericks.
with a slight change of name, and ac-
cording to the published platform, no
change In principles, the men who
have followed the lead of Commoner
Emmeluth may enter into full fellow
ship with a national party composed
of eight reform organizations, some of
them perhaps never heard of outside of
a few states or cities of the union, but
each having leaders, men whose lung
power must equal that of the most in
veterate Home Rule orator who dis
cusges how to get up to the public
crib.
The Allied Peoples party is the name
adopted by the new organization which
claims for it's distinction that it Will
unite reform forces against plutocra-
cy." In the Louisville convention at
which the party was incubated. there
were delegates from the following: The
Peoples Party, Fusion Popuists So
cialists, Referendum League, Union
Labor Party, Public Ownership Party
of 81. Louis, Prohibition Party, and
| United Christian Party. What more
is to be desired? If that list does not
include every body of cranks In the
! United States, it must be accredited to
an oversight. There Is only one minor
Ilty party beside the Democracy that
is left out and that is the Woman
! Suffragists. but the Pops are for that
reform too, so that it will be all right
I'm the end, and with it's addition and a
kill the snakes" plank, the following
declaration of principles should fit the
Home Rule leaders like a glove:
The initiative and referendum and
the imperative mandate the public
ownership of all public utilities; that
the land, including all natural resourc-
es, shall not be monopolZed for specu-
latiVc purposes, and alien ownership
shall be prohibited; that all lands now
held by corporations in excess of nat
ural needs, or held by aliens, shall be
reclaimed and held for actual settlers;
scientific money based upon the wealth
of tho people of the nation and not
redeemable in any specific commodity
out to be fun legal tender for all debts
public or private, to be issued by the
government only and without interven-
ton of banks, sufficient in quantity &c
meet the requirements OF commerce;
just and natural taxation; the election
of the President, Vice President, Fed
eral judges. and Senators by the peo-
| pie the creation of a Cabinet officer
of the Department of Labor. and equit-
able arbitration; the establishment OF
postal savings banks.
To this was added the demand for
the union label upon every article pur-
chased by a reformer. Again. what
| more is to be desired? Perhaps the
member from farthest Niihau does not
understand the imperative mandate.
but it would not conflict with his desire
to vote for a female dog bill, nor would
/ the operations o; the initiative and ref
/ erendum interfere with the prospects
of ten cent fish bill. Scientific money,
not redeemable in any specific COM
modify, should appeal to every one,
even to those who stood for 16 to /.
| though they did not know any more
/ than Bryan what II meant. Election
| of Federal judges would give an OPP
pcrtunity for the display of highest
| Judgment as to personal fitness, and
| If natural taxation did not mean put
| ting the burdens of government upon
thrift and industry, then il could not
mean anything at all.
All that is needed, and that may be
added for home consumption, is oppo-
: sition to the men who have made the
country possible as a portion of the
/ United States. and to the industry
| which has made IL the wealthiest COM
muuity for its citizenship in the Ma
ton. and the Allied Peoples Party dec.
laration of faith would fit the majority
party here like an old shoe, and like
that same piece OF wearing apparel, bt
Of absolutely no use.