The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-04-19
PLACE FOR HOME RULERS.

No longer need the Home Rulers
wander about the ranges of national
politics like a bunch OF mavericks
With a slight change of name. and ac-
cording to the published platform. nc
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
1 cusces 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 Populists, So
ciaIists, Referendum League. Union
Labor Party, Public Ownership Party
Of 81. Louis. Prohibition Party, and
United Christian Party. What more
is to be desired? II that list does not
include every body of cranks i'm the
United States, il must be accredited to
an oversight. There is only one minor
ity 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
in the end, and with its addition and a
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 monopoliZed for Specu-
lative 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 the people of the nation and not
in any specific commodity.
out to be full legal tender for all debts,
public or private. to be issued by the
only and without interview
ton OF banks. sufficient in quantity to
Just and natural taxation; the election
u the President, Vice President, Fed
eral judges. and Senators by the peo-
pie. the creation of a Cabinet officer
~ the Department OF Labor. and equit-
able arbitration; the establishment of
postal savings banks.
To this was added the demand for
he 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.
'ut it would not conflict with his desire
% vote for female dog bill, nor would
he operations OF the initiative and ref
.rendum interfere with the prospects
# n ten cent fish bill. Scientific money. ;
lot redeemable in any specific COM
modify. should appeal to every one,
ven TO those who stood for IS to 1.
hough they did not know any more
han Bryan what it meant. Election
f Federal judges would give an op-
for the display of highest
Judgment as to personal fitness, and
natural taxation did not mean put
ing the burdens OF government upon
hrift and industry. then it could not
mean anything at all.
All that is needed, and that may be
Ode d for home consumption, is oppo-
ition to the men who have made the
ountry possible as a portion of the
'nited States, and to the industry
'hich has made il the wealthiest COM
lunity for its citizenship in the Ma
on. and the Allied Peoples Party dec
Iration of faith would fit the majority
arty here like an old shoe, and like
lat same piece OF wearing apparel, be
absolutely no use.