The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1903-01-27
WAIMEANS WANT
HOMESTEADS
PETITION TO GOVERNOR FROM Sc
PERSONS WHO DESIRE TO SET
TIE ON GOVERNMENT LANDS.

Governor Dole has received petit
ton from Waimea, Hawaii, signed by
Sc persons who want to take up home
steads there. The petition will receive
immediate attention. as the lands in
question are lands which the govern
ment already intended to offer for
homestead seekers. The petition is in
teresting," said the governor "as show
ing that there is a demand for these
lands, which the government is about to
survey and OPEN"
The petitioners to the Governor APP
pear to have been innoculated with
good deal of "Americanism", judging
by their petition, which is as follows
His BXCellenCy, Sanford b. Dole,
Governor, Territory of Hawaii.
Sir: We the undersigned, citizens of
the United States of America, and also
citizens of the Territory of Hawaii re-
siding in Waimea, District of South
Kohala Island of Hawaii, said Terri
tory of Hawaii, respectfully represent:
THAT in accordance with the spirit
and intent of Land Act of 1895 for the
acquisition of homesteads and also the
desirability of perpetuating the adj
vancement of the Homestead system
heretofore Incorporated by the passage
of the said Land Act in 1895 and also
for the purpose of qualifying oursel-
YES to become good American citizens
who till the farms they own and in
order that we, as such American citi-
zens enjoying the rights of American
citizenship laid down by that great good
man of the United States of America
| George Washington, or our children
hereafter may be able to call them their
possessions and also be imbued with
the idea of advancement and to see
| Waimea in years to come a real Para
disc hereby apply that the now avail
I ii
in said Waimea, said district of South
1 Kohala, Island of Hawaii, be surveyed
and laid out into homesteads under and
I by the provisions of the Right of Pur-
chase Lease of the said Land Act of
| 1885,
The SO signatures are of native Ha-
| waiian and naturaliZed Americans of
various nativity. The petition was
sent to the governor with the following
! letter:
THE application and petition of the
citizens and residents of Waimea is
herewith enclosed, trusting you as our
| Chief Executive you will carefully
weight well the Importance of the said
, application and petition, especially as
coming from a people who as you have
! lately come in contact with them, are
not of the kind that will leisurely pass
| of valuable lives in roaming about at
large and thereby become worthless
citizens, but are a hard working people
and are willing to make the best OF
their lives by filling the farms. If it
pleases your eXcellency to grant this
request, as one of them. let me inform
you that judging the enthusiasm shown
by them at a mass meeting lately held
by us for the purpose of signing the
said petition and application l am OF
the opinion that they were really ac-
tuated by motives of advancement and
to try and better the world by use OF
what little strength left in them for the
purpose of qualifying themselves to be-
come good American citizens, reaping
thereby honest earnings.
yours Respectfully
GEORGE BELL,
| president mass meeting citizen and
residents of Waimea, S. KOhala."