The Hawaiian gazette., 1903-09-18
A LESSON IN CRAFTSMANSHIP.

| LLyyON IN SlRlLJWNiNShV'
The Irish Land Act, adopted by the
British Parliament, has greatly i'm
proved the relations between Great
| Britain and Ireland. The New YORK
World in n cartoon, points It's recog-
nized effect. by representing King Ed
ward and Erin, the latter an attractive
woman, as dancing a jig together, the
| King twirling a shillelah, to indicate
that at last the two nationalities are
combined for mutual protection.
on the policy of stimulating diversi-
fed farming, which the Advertiser has
strenuously advocated, this Act has an
obvious application. The wise and pre-
scient statesmen Of Great Britain have
| thoroughly uprooted and destroyed
system of misrule that, had existed FOR
/ centuries and bled the land ana the
people through absentee landlords.
| This ife-draining monopoly met the
enormous expenditure of aristocratS,
who We're virtually aliens, reduced
tenants to condition of sertdpih' III
which manhood and opportunity were
dormant. emptied the soil of its fertll-
ity, thrust aside improvements III
farming, the effective use of when mas
placed the United states in the van OF
the producing world, and entailcd upon
fine pcasantry starvation, untold
physical and mental suffering, forms or
disease which were beyond cure ana
unprecedented mortality. From these
causes, leading to mgrations that even
Finland in the Twentieth Century can
not parallel, the population Of Ireland
was decmated, and a growing ana
combining evaporation resulted, with
which civilization everywhere SYM
pathized, and that nothing but wise
and radical legislation could have
abated.
The Conservatives in Great Britain, 1
with whom all classes for this purpose
have acted, have involuntnrily present.
ed an object LESSON for ignorance,
stolidity and venality in Hawaii all
three of these baser elements Of society
and politics ccntering in trcacherous
and selfish opposition, yelled but actual,
to our best local interests. In the Hh-
walan Islands, there have been chief ,
doms and monarChies, as well as o |
transitional Republic, and the native |
population has been much dcnser than |
now. But the proportion of human be- |
ings to the square mile has never been /
large, and, for the most part, the soil |
is virgin There is no excuse here, |
for the reproduction Of Eu- !
ropean viciousness and complexities |
to the United states has (
introduced principles of government in
with privilege and classes.
with the predomnanCe of the few and
has placed individuals and property
init
Land is the source of stable wealth and I
Of its distribution among educated and
developing citizens. The American
land policy, adopted in this Territory,
would eXtirpate the possible germs of
an Irish analogy. In stead of ulti-
mately correcting evils, with their roots
imbedded in dead centuries that an
taEoni2e just government and human
progress, it is our plain duty to stifle
them in the very process of CESSATION.
1t has been demonstrated in the Ad-
vertiser, aided by enlightened, brainy
and faithful citizens, that uc.r resources
Fan be vastly multiplied, our popula-
ton largely augmented, and the forces
If responsible citizenship strengthened,
Oy the rescue from immemorial stagna-
ton and worthlessness of many thou
sands of acres of land in the mountains
md nearer the shores OF the Islands,
which cannot be utilized by the sugar
plantations or in other ca2italistic en-
terprises, also in their places worthy
IF governmental support. History and
special invitation combine in urging
the stimulation of diversified farming
md the consequent accumulation of the
wealth, material and intellectual, that
acquires its permanent influence and
power from the economical use of in
and industry.
This is the important lesson in states
that can be extracted from the
study of the Irish Land Act.