The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-09-16
A LESSON IN CRAFTSMANSHIP.

tdIlldlltIls has 81 GAIAy lii
tproved the relations between Great
Britain and Ireland. The New York
World, in cartoon, points its 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 DIVERSE
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 a
centuries and bled the land and the
people through absentee landlords.
This life-draining monopoly met the
enormous expenditure of aristocrats,
who We're virtually aliens, reduced
tenants to a condition of serfdom in
which manhood and opportunity were
ity, thrust aside improvements in
farming, the effective use of which has
placed the United States in the van of
the producing world, and entailed upon
a fine peasantry starvation, untold
physical and mental suffering, forms of
disease which were beyond cure, and
unprecedented mortality. From these
causes, leading to migrations that even
Finland in the Twentieth Century can
not parallel, the population of ireland
was decimated, and a growing and
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,
with whom all classes for this purpose
have acted, have involuntarily present.
ed an object lesson for ignorance,
stolidity and venality in Hawaii, all
three of these baser elements of society
and politics centering in treacherous
and selfish opposition. yelled but actual, |
to our best local interests. In the Ha- |
waiian Islands, there have been chief |
doms and monarchies, as we'll as |
transitional Republic, and the native |
population has been much denser than |
now. But the proportion of human be-
iDgS to the SQUARE m iIa hoe pa1,a, baa,,
large, and. for the most part, the soil I
is virgin There is no excuse here,
therefore, for the reproduction of Eu-
ropean viciousness and complexities
Annexation to the United States has
introduced principles of government in
consistent with privilege and classes,
with the predominance of the few, and
has placed individuals and property
within the reach of liberal opportunity.
Land is the source of stable wealth and
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
tagonize just government and human
progress, it is our plain duty to stlf1e
them in the very process of CESSATION
1t has been demonstrated in the AL
vertiser, aided by enlightened, brainy
and faithful citizens, that our resources
can be vastly multiplied, our popula-
ton largely augmented, and the forces
of responsible citizenship strengthened,
by the rescue from immemorial stagna-
ton and worthlessness of many thou
sands of acres of land in the mountains
which cannot be utilized by the sugar
or in other capitalistic en-
terprises, also in their places worthy
Of governmental support. History and
special invitation combine in urging
the stimulation of diversified farming
and the consequent accumulation of the
wealth, material and Intellectual that
acquires its permanent influence and
power from the economical use of in
telligence and industry.
This is the important lesson in states
that can be extracted from the
study of the Irish Land Act.
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