Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-02-16
TELHGRAMs AND CONDITIONS.


ments published by the Bulletin have
come not from interested parties but
from men delegated to get the fact
irrespective of whose personal inter
ests II may serve. Other telegram.
have been received in the city which
purportedly point to directly the re
verse conclusions.
A fair review of these is hardly pos
sible except il be that the President
himself is hugely mixed in his opin.
ions on the Hawaiian situation and
various non.commital statements
made by him have been interpreted
according to the views of those who
have called upon him or upon those
who have given out information from
the White House.
The positive fact in 1t all is that the
President is very much dissatisfied
with conditions here as well he may
be. He seeks a solution. Gagged by
the past, Governor Dole has not fur
nlshed that solution but has on the
contrary stood sponsor for a condition
of affairs which If existing during the
days OF Hawaiis independence could
only result in a revolution. the leaders
of which would be the rank and file
who stood with him during the strug.
gle for annexation. Mr. Dole has not
only alienated the Hawaiians but the
American annexation element of the
islands as we'll Apparently he views
this situation with absolute indiffer.
ence and will not turn his hand to Sc.
cure peace through the recognition of
any popular demand.
The inevitable result of this state OF
affairs is political defeat. Nothing is
more certain. Only the cowardly or
the corrupt vote can be controlled
when the question at issue is a matter
of principle and that principle as old
as the American nation itself. The
citizens of this Territory have a high
regard for President Roosevelt and
the general disposition is to stand by
his ideas of government as expressed
in his public life. But the President
or anyone else cannot expect the
American citizens of this Territory to
accept with Indifference such condi.
tons as he in all his public life has
firmly and steadfastly opposed.
There is not Dole or an anti.Dole
man in this Territory who can honest
ly say he Is satisfied with present
conditions in the Territory. It is the
cause OF the conditions on which opin.
ions divide. One section of the com
munity believes Mr.. Dole should work
with the people; the other, that the
people as included in the present cleo,
torate are beneath contempt. that Mr.
Dole is in the restriction of the fran.
chise. The latter contention is false
to every tenet of American faith as eX'
pressed by the founders of the nation
and handed down to the present, bap
tized in the best blood of the great
commonwealth. Men have given theiI
lives to prevent the continuation of just
such conditions as some would now
| like to force upon Hawaii. The Ameri
can-born citizens will raIly to the par
ty standard when It comes to an cleo
ton but they will not give up the fight
however long ii may be because they
know that time will prove their prin
ciple right as it has ever been proved
since civilization began its onward
march.
The problem then before the repre-
sentatives of Mr.. Dole and before tbs
President is whether they will accept
a compromise or whether they viii
continue the fight. On one side IL
money and minority votes; on the 9th
er majority votes and by no meani
poverty.
The Parker Carter ticket Is not Who'll
ly satisfactory to the Dole faction be
cause of Parker nor IL ii wholly salts
factory to the anti-Dole faction be
cause it has Carter. Yet with lis
faults II represents a middle ground
on which 1t Is possible to work In
unison. Mr.. Dole's intimate frlenus
represent that such a solution Is re
Election on Governor Dole who has
stood by the islands in the hours o.
their greatest extremity. but have
they any progressive plan to offer fol
the Territory with Mr.. Dole at the
head of affairs? Their accepted organ
has done nothing but villify any anC
all who might take a different view
from tnat supported by Mr.. Dole anC
his friends. Men can be led but they
cannot be driven. This is ever true
of the American-born and the meI
who know the Hawaiian character
best have ever said 1t is true OF tn,
Hawaiian Americans. Why then thi'
driving, this Wholesale condemnation