The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1903-10-23
TERRITORIAL POLiCY--NATIONAL
AFFILIATIONS.

'Sah party ousnt u pe IL suie "iiihei
at the approaching election in this
Territory. 1t can only be defeated
through stolid indifference to the best
interests of the people, and perhaps by
treachery in its own ranks.
The Republican party is national and
patriotic. BY it's wise policy 1t has
materially aided the substantial pros
perity that has swept with increasing
richness from East to West until the
Pacific states and territories are
filled with intense and fruitful activity.
1t controls the administration Of the
government and both houses of Con-
gress. Almost on the verge of great
national contest it's craftsmanship is
animated by every motive and purpose
that can promote the well-being Of
more than eighty millions of human
beings, constituting the most intelli-
gent, educated, enterprising and ambi-
tious population on the globe.
The Territory of Hawaii. compare
lively small in area and with an I'M
usually limited proportion Of voting
citizens, lies directly in the van Of
American progress and under the fos-
tering care of Congress, should speed
lily take a strong position among and
with the thriving communities of the
American continent. Its labor wants
demand special consideration, on facts
and figures, resulting from it's trop-
ical situation, through which alone,
| inteligently presented, important and
essential legislation can be secured.
Many other necessities exist on each
of which practical sympathy and CO.
operation with the party in power
are important elements.
Congress has been more than just
and fair in its treatment of these ISL
ands. The Organic Act conceded ev-
erything the most conservative ka-
amainas could have asked, that was
not in palpable conflict with the appli-
cable provisions of the Federal con-
stituton. The question of suffrage,
entirely within Congressional control,
was most literally dealt with. and the
enactment on that subject furnished
| the reactionary Home Rulers with the
| only opportunity they could have had
for using the territorial Legislature to
| furnish nominal employment at exor-
| bitant rates for a small class of newly
made citizens, too ignorant to under
stand their responsibilities, too indo-
| lent to work and fit only to turn the
| wheels of badly constructed political
| machines. The record of the last
| session, W. n it's reckless appropria-
tions. many of which can never be
| utilized, is enou"h to turn the stom-
| achs of senators and representatives
a Washington when they investigate
the facts. Such men as Speaker Beck
le-' have already shown their super
iority to the lower grades of partizan-
ship.
There is a sense which home rule
is not only the policy but funda-
mental right of the American people,
nowhere more cheerfully or fully ac-
knowledged than within. the Republic
can party. President Roosevelt, many
of whose utterances have become edu-
cational texts, has enforced his siren
us conception IF this kind of home
rule throughout his administration,
which has followed the lines estab-
lished by President Mckinley. He
is the President of the entire people,
without distinction of race, caste, sect,
party, or industrial or social condition.
This is the attitude to which the Ad-
vertiser, at all times, has rigidly adj
hered, and this fact is too well known
thrown by the fabrications of the few
spurious Republicans who, for the sake
of loaves and fishes, not only flirt with
but embrace their nominal political
opponents
The Home Rule, however, which eX-
ponds it's hatulence and it's insincerity
in efforts to deceive the voters, and es-
pecially the native citizens of Hawaii,
is not merely spurious but a pompous
advocate of a weak imitation of treason
to our institutions. 1t has been forced
into the absurd attitude of proposing
the withdrawal of the United States
from its most recent annexation and a
relapse into the provisional Repub-
lie or the older monarchy. The press
of the United States and many of its
statesmen have observed this fact, and,
the (so-called) Home Rule party in the
present campaign is everywhere iden-
titled with this palpable absurdity. If
it should gain the election, Congress
would almost certainly intervene and,
by restricting the suffrage, or pre-
scribing conditions for it's exercise, |
drive pelf-seeking gluttons back to the |
sloughs, from which they have tenn |
porarly emerged.
1t is not the rank and file of the Home |
Rule party who furnish the pabulum |
for senseless war against the insti-
tutions of the country, now firmly set |
into the soil of the Territory. They |
have been deluded by lies and assump-
tons couched in expressions that |
tickled the ears of some uneducated |
native voters, who are rapidly being !
undeceived and leaving the organiza-
to which they are supposed to be at
tached. 1t is renegade and covetous
Republicans, nursing private griev-
ances and aiming at revenge or COM
pensation, who, for their own ends,
stir up the stdpid aspirations for
poverty stricken independence, and
impudently defy national sentiment
with an utter disregard of territorial
prosperity. These men, already
branded by the ineffaceable marks of
infamy, aim to reach the Federal adj
ministration by antagonizing locally
every principle and interest it repre-
sents and by assuming not only vir-