The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-01-28
A PROGRAM or RUIN.


vail Su.n policy would moan rn-
/ irosrrssI'n ~ the most rerilous Kind. Boo
that 10 would put the power 90 taxa
ton and disbursement into the Itching
hands 81 that part " our pu'ynosian
race which Is least qualified Co DO pub
De- business and most likely Go us' The
priNn gc of city and county rule iHr
corrupt and allen ends.
!. outside readers should know that th"
problem Of local elt-gpN-rnment her"
presents phases wholly foreign o. the
] same problem on the mainland. There,
% is the mere question 81 giving Amer
leans by birth. descent and naturaliza-
/ tion--thc first two classes being In
/ majority over ala chance To rule I'M
der rights which they ar" qualified 70
exercise. Here IL means the delivery OF
the public and to large extent the
private interests of 5000 white voters
and Of perhaps 1000 native ana half-na-
tive voters of intelligence and capacity,
constituting the owners OF the proper
ty and Of the business of the Hawaii
an Islands, into the hands Of the de-
graded and irresponsible section Of our
Polynesian race whom Congress SO pre-
maturely enfranchised. The mainland
instance means a rough average Of
/ good government. marked with spprad-
&c cases, as in the great cities. of mall
administration: the local instance, on
the other hand, means an endless chain
of bad government. based on the idea
that a public office is a public graft.
Observe the conditions: Congress has
put the majority vote OF Hawaii in the
| hands OF men who, as general thing,
/ cannot talk English; whose character
has never had a moral trend; who are
VIGOROUSLY unthrlfty; who are mon
archists in sympathy and would Ike to
| be in politics: who hate white men
and especially Americans; who know
| nothing about the science of rnvern-
ment; who are removed by but little
more than a generation from savagery,
and who are led. not only by their own
demagogues. but by the worst class OF
white carpet baggers. These people
form what is known as the Home Rule
party. They elected to Congress a ma
tive half-white who. less than three
years ago. proffered in writing his serv-
ices to Aguinaldo, and who has been a
dismal failure in Office and "A legisla-
turc which made the most extraordin-
airy record known to the history Of
American law makers. What that rec
standard publication, Thrum's Ha-
waiian Annual. from which we quote:
The republican minority of both houses
did well in saving the country from Il
number of disgracefu measures. Per-
sstcnt effort was made to saddle the
! city with ffty-year franchise In favor
of the Tramway Company; attempt was
made to legalize gambling, and to revive
kahunaism; compulsory vaccination was
f..l
made pet measure An act to create
counties and municipalities, Ill drawn
and badly considered in the lower house
was passed by them for the senate to
amend but that body passed 1t defiantly,
with all its cruditics, because the mnor-
ty did not like it as II stood. Much dis
appointment was felt by them at the bill
meeting with pocket Veto" for Home
Rulers and certain foreign element
hoped thereby to 'curtai the governors
, power by placing appointments and ex-
penditures In the hands of native voters
organized to put down the power of the
, whites"
Practically the whole session was taxi
, en- up with childish wrangling. Desirable
measures for the promotion of govern
ment and public welfare We're neglected
or studiously blocked in committee, as
In the case of the loan measure and APP
preparation bills, expecting thereby to
force an extension of the session which
had been refused them on the ground
that "the methods of the present session
5 had been so wastful of both time and
money with little to show for a large
= expenditure of public funds"
| At the close of the regular term they
I were Immediately called in special ses-
sion to consider the appropriations and
the same inability to coniine themselves
, to the duty they were called for was
manifest. The time limit expired before
e the act was through its third reading
and the session had TO be extended sew
i eral days for this purpose, finally ad-
n journing July Goth, at an expense to the
. country OF $4,000 for its term of sixty
days and $4,000 for Its thirty days extra
session: far exceeding the most eXpen-
sive previous legislature known in these
I islands. which was in 1856. when $i99S4. o.
/ was required to defray the expenses OF
its long session OF l29 days.
e The Home Rule legislators are the
= leaders of the people from whose ranks
5 city and county officials would be ia
= ken. officials of such an origin would
no more be qualified to carry on public
, business than We're the freedmen OF
( the South in reconstruction times. Their
4 policy would be to multiply patronage
increase taxes and taboo white men
I save the carpet baggers VINO are III
with them for the spoi!s. Investment
= here would stop, business would be
I. hurt and in the end the white people
l would be compelled, as was the case
with white people in the Southern
States, to take matters in their own
hands. To such predatory and violent
ends-to such losses and destruction
| and msrule-the proposal at this time
, to have city and county government
, obviously tends.
i Public duty demands that the sub
division of official responsibility here
shall await the growth of a responsible
{ voting majority. In no other way can
) the future of Hawaii rebound to the
r credit of the expansion policy of the
e United States, nor even Of civilization
= itself.