The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-11-18

nh' w WIN the Hepublos, sayin.
. that they can thus best A. an. I'M
terests OF their country. The news
paper which IL suppong prime.
Cupid makes this sort Of areumon
IN urging the natives ttast thell
votes for him. '
"llaNaiians who wauta ,-,-,,,,
their suffrage should allthems,iy,,
With the party that gavs 40 them
not with The Democrats. Tho lattc,
have fought with the cartA,. hox an,
the ballot box 10 connnoIo svffr,g,
10 white men. irrespectiN,f wbotl,e,
the men Of color voted M tbem n,
not.
That Is now and alwal the Demo.
cratic doctrine. In the NTH wber,
/ the Democrats rule, Il Uawniiar
] would find himself withdrawn rights
simply because he has drown akin
/ In the North where tbRenubllcans
are in a majority, he woi he treated
as well as white man. Here in Ia.
wall the Republicans hay been ouick
TO give the Hawaiians ery political
opportunity and in tn convention
which named the PripcI there wore
-, IMAM Nnlte men.
mere are more HawaiiaI than white
men in Office under Govoor Dole to-
Day. One OF the stronst planks in
the Republican Territori platform is
the one which stands forhe mainten-
ance of the Hawaiian surage."
The Democrats have gen their en-
dorsement to Wilcox, Id have re-
ceived in exchange for t,ir support a
promise OF one-third tn members of
the legislature. The mates are max
ing no little campaign Under out of
the fact that Hawaii ha receiveu TO
aid from the United SITES since an
nexation. The campaigmow on is an
exceedingly lively one.
Personally, the Prime lis a clever,
agreeable sort of a felloy with plenty
of friends who will do tn b best to put
him in office. Wilcox h, at different
times affiliated with botfthe Republi-
can and Democratic parts.
Some politicians say lat the atti-
tude Of Prince Cupid mds the even
tual disruption Of the Hoe Rule mar.
ty. BE that as it maythere is no
doubt that when the action comes
off in November there VII be a bitter
fight at the polls.
A 16-TO-1 ST6Y.
The average Hawaiianjolitical lead
er does not go very deennto abstru5e
political questionable likes life too
easy for that. Apropos I this, a good
story is told of John WE, who was a
native delegate from Haaii to tie Ma
tional Democratic conviction in Kan
sas City in 1900. 1t WILDE remember
ed that it was Hawaiithat cast. in
committee, the deciding BITE which put
the free silver plank in be Democratic
platform that year.
Some time after hisreturn to the
Islands Wise was harafuing a meet
ing on the political issts of the day,
when a fellow HawaiiaI asked him:
John, what does 16 ! / mean?"
Wise looked puzzle moment,
scratched his head, and hen began:
Sixteen to one means means-hang
1t, don't know what means and
don't believe William JlBryan knows,
And he thus babe farwell to a dis
cussion of financial m&ters-amid a
roar of laughter.
There is no questionini the fact that
Hawaii needs strong representative
in Congress, and whethE Prince On
pid, If elected, will provelhat sort of a
man, remains to be seen. A number Of
important questions relating to Ha-
waiian affairs will como up before
Congress in the near future AS is well
known, a committee of United States
Senators has lately been irthe Islands
investigating the needs o. our newly
annexed territory, and a lengthy re-
port will be submitted by these gen
.lemen when the time cous.
One of the subjects which claimed
he attention of Senators 1urton, Fos-
er and Mitchell was TIL fact that
treat depression exists ii the sugar
industry of the Islands. Rugby esti-
mated, 100000 acres of Ian are taken
p by the sugar plantation, which in
9Ol produced over 160,000tons. The
rice of sugar being low, md. at the
anne time, the cost of prod ction hav-
ng been increased throughthe search
y of labor. the sugar plantrs had an
Exceedingly bad year of it. The low
il'c VI sugar Cduseu uelTeSSlOn IN
hawaiian business circles. fist as low-'i
riced cotton produces the nme effect
a the cotton-growing sectins of The
outh. Not until the enormous surplus
locks of sugar in Europe ar cut down,
nd the bounty system becomes a thing
the past, in accordance with the rec
of the Brussels confer
nee, will there be marbad change
,r the better.
THE LABOR QUESTION IN THE
ISLANDS.
The labor question In Hiwaii Is
erious one. When the ishnds were
nneXed to the United States, the Chi
csc exclusion law, of course. became
peratiye in the newly acquired ter. |
tory and thus shut out collie labor. !
hlch has been found by long odds the 7
est. The natives do not make good
eld laborers-the work is too hard TO !
lit them. With Chinamen shut ont !
lie price of Labor naturally went IN. |
nd the expenses OF the plantations
ere thus very materially increased. |
he Planters Association brought
yer nearly 5000 laborers with their
ives and families from Porto Rico /