The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-17

slity OF its voters, or their privat
business methods: otherwise partIe
might be held to account for their an
. archists, or Iunatics or railroad-wreck
ers or wife-beaters. The only way u
3 judge a political party is by its plat
;. forms, its candidates, the laws ii pass
y es. and its general policies, and thu
results CT it's ascendency upon the wei
fare Of the people.
AS TO the charges made by our cor
. respondent against plantation manag-
. ers we Enow nothing, and If they are
true we can only express regret that
such a policy has been anywhere pur-
sued. Inquiry along such lines has in
; variably brought us the reply that 1t
IS next 10 impossible to keep white
mechanics and workingmen on the
plantations, they preferring the life
and opportunities of towns and being
opposed TO fellowship with Orientais.
But if our correspondent does not ov-
erstate the case: II he is correct in his
premises, let us ask him in all candor
how he can hold the Republican party
responsible for the state of things of
which he complains?
( Asiatics were let into these Islands
| long before there was a Republican
party here and they remain by virtue
OF treaty rights which are recognized
by the United States. AS far as posi-
bic, however. the Republican party is
trying TO protect white workingmen
from them. Congress has made the
exclusion law more drastic; President
Roosevelt has advised Congress to do
everything possible to develop this
Territory on traditional American
lines, and anticipating him. Governor
Dole. in his inaugural address. pointed
out the danger and the need as fol-
lows:
The pressing demands OF agricultural
corporations for cheap field labor. to-
gether with their great influence, will
continue as in the past to be an oh
stacle to the development of such a
the political future of Hawaii. The
two enterprises are mutually hostile. |
The one is interested in men as ma |
chimes; the other as factors in the de-
velopmenI of the State.
AS the control OF such corporations |
gradually passes into the hands az
those who are without the restraining
influences of local and traditional assc-
Citations, and are not interested in the
social growth of the Hawaiian commu-
nifty. this danger may become more
threatening than heretofore.
Every one who is a resident here. |
not merely to amass wealth, but to live
a home life and perhaps bring up chill
dren who viii necessarily become az
tached to the country, its climate and
its Social life, is most vitality interest
ed in having this matter rightly soIv-
ed. This means that it shall not he
possible but settled beyond all ques
ton, that no money interest shall he
allowed to stand in the way of the de-
velopment OF a pure family life in am !
part OF che Territory OF Hawaii; either
by the enforcement of unfavorable
conditions upon the field laborer.
family life is made morally
Impossible or only immorally possible.
or by opposing the settlement of the
small proprietor; Indifference of gov
eminent or employers to the inaliena-
BILE rights of men, women and children
to an ideal home environment must re-
suit, sooner or later, in the reprisals
Of natural justice.
Our shores and mountain slopes offer
a fertile soil and an infinite variety Of
landscape, sufficient and suitable for
the homes of such citizens and enough
Of them as shall assure honest and
capable government and statehood in
iue time.
The land policy of the Republic OF
Hawaii. whereby public lands are OPP
.ned for settlement in small holdingSs
should be continued by the Territory
with sucn changes as experience has
With yigor and earnestness in the hope 7
hat MANY Americans may be led to
ransfer their homes from the main
and to Hawaii. ,
Our correspondent says that. when
comes to voting to keep the Japs and
cinnamon to work and drive the white
nan out, then IL is time to draw the I
me-" Upon an issue like that we could I
II stand together. We beg to say to I
Workman" as evidence of good !,
aith, that every white man who comes
4 to take the place of an Asiatic,
ives this paper chance to get an
Their subscriber; and nearly every
hite man who is driven out to make
pom for an Asiatic, deprives US of
nance to keep one. Moreover a white
opulation advertises and gets job L
ork done. Were ii true that the Re
lblican party is doing what our cor
.spondent charges. the Advertiser
'uld only support it at a continuous
So and with the ultimate prospect OF
ave harm. But We know 1t is not
ne. If the Democrats or Home Rul-
3 had control OF every Office in Ha- -
all they could not dislodge a single y
Ipanese or Chinese unless employed "
bon public works-and the Republ-
N party has already evicted them
ON there. Territorial governors,
urts and legislatures cannot, as our
rrespondent knows. infringe the
eaty rights OF the Asiatic; nor would
~ law be constitutional which should r.
elk to compel private citizens to Sc d
ct their resident workmen by any
st OF color or nationality.
Such plantation men as vote the Re
lblican ticket do not do this to pro-