The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-29

, defiant of the Constitution and laws
which they have solemnly sworn to
maintain. We charge them with ap-
pointing to high official positions car
rying exorbitant salaries, pliable mex
perienced and incompetent persons:
with parCeling out the public domain
in princely tracts to favored individ-
uals, with the intent that the same be
held in trust for great corporations, in
| fragrant violation of the letter and
/ spirit of the Organic Act: with using
| the public funds with which to defray
| the expenses of its emiSsarieS and lob
1 byists to and at Washington for the
purpose of preserving the statu quo of
the Oligarchy, concealing its frauds
and disappointing the wishes and as
pirations of the great mass of the peo-
pie of this Territory. And we call at
tention to the fact that the acts as well
as the policy of the present Territorial
administration was -'oundly condemned
in toto by the three Republican United
States Senators who recently visited
Hawaii as a Subcommittee of the
| United States Senate, and made a de-
tailed and exhaustive investigation of
all of its conditions to-wit, Hon. join
H Mitchell of Oregon, Hon. Addison
C. Foster of Washington, Hon. Jos. r.
Burton of Kansas.
WANT TO EMBRACE ALL VOTERS.
(3) We appeal to the conscience
and manhood of the voters of this Ter
litory to join us in our effort to effect
ually restrict the power of an admin
istration which is dishonored at home,
and discredited abrad, and which pos
sesses neither aim nor end other than
it's own aggrandizement. And we cor
daily. invite all citizens without refer
ence to race, creed or class to unite
with us so that we may have in this
Territory a government of laws and
not of men, a government OF equal
rights, opportunities and privileges
under which the voice of the humblest
citizen may be heard and respected.
(D We declare ourselves in favor
of the most liberal forms of county and
municipal government and we solemn
ly pledge ourselves to omit no endeav-
or to secure those forms of govern
ment which are Instructive with the
American" and regarded as a part Of
his birth right.
(5) We declare ourselves in favor
of the repeal of the law which requires
the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
to make biennial report to the Legis-
lature. which law affords that official
a pretext for intermeddling in politics
and matters of legislation entirely be-
yOnu scope Oh q proper IepOIl
90 We condemn the passage of a
law by the last Legislature authoriz-
ing two or more corporations to form
o-partnerships. and we charge that
said law was devised for the purpose !
of enabling corporations to evade that !
just and sensible prohibition in the |
Organic Act against the holding of |
more than one thousand acres of land |
by a corporation: and We tharge fur |
ther that said law is directly contrary |
to the laws of Congress and opposed to I
the policy OF enlightened states, as wit |
messed by recent and almost universal /
legislation aimed at corporate asso-
citation and combination. And we call
upon the Congress of the United States
to Immediately repeal said law.
DENOUNCE THE LEGISLATURE.
Cd We denounce the appropriations
made by the last Legislature for the
pay of public officials and Aor other
purposes as extravagant and waSteful
% the point of recklessness, wholly out
1f proportion to the value of the SER
vices which said officials are called up
IN to perform, finding no warrant in
he almost bankrupt condition of this
Territory and not justified by the ne
,ess ties of the situation. And for the
;am reason we denounce the passage
" lie SO-calieO Loan Bill anu we 10
hereby beseech the President of the
United States to make a careful and
.ritical investigation of the necessity
or such a bill before giving his ap-
,roval to any of the bonds which it is
proposed to issue Hereunder.
(S) We denounce the attempt that !
5 being made by the supporters of ex- /;
sting conditions in this Territory to
aise race issues, and we charge that Z
uch attempt is being made for the
ole purpose of misleading the people
{ the United States and of creating a /
eminent abroad preJudicial to the {
hawaiian people. The entire history q
( the Hawaiian race for more than
alf a century affords abundant testi-
,onv of the fact that the Hawaiians I
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