The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-20
TERRITORIAL pOLICY--NATiONAL
AFFILIATIONS.

hcan party ought to be sure winner
at the approaching election in this
Territory. It can only be defeated
through stolid Indifference to the best
interests of the people, and perhaps by
treachery in it's own ranks.
The Republican party is national ana
patriotic. BY it's wise policy it has
materially aided the substantial pros
perity that has swept with increasing
richness from East to West until the
Pacific states and territories are
filed with intense and fruitful activity.
It controls the administration of the
government and both houses of Con-
gress. Almost on the verge of great
national contest, its 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 its trop-
ical situation, through which alone,
inteuigently 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 it's 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-
stitution. 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, with it's reckless appropria-
lions, many of which can never be
utilized, is enough to turn the stom-
achs of senators and representatives
at 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 IL which home rule
| is not only the policy but funda-
| mental right of the American people,
nowhere more cheerfully or fully ac-
| knowIedged than within the Republi-
can party. President Roosevelt, many
| of whose utterances have become edu-
/ cational texts, has enforced his siren
! u us conception Of 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 Adj
| vertiser. at all times, has rigidly ad-
hered, and this fact is too we'll known
/ to its numerous readers, to be over
/ thrown by the fabrications of the few
spurious Republicans who, for the sake
of loaves and fishes, not only f1irt with
but embrace their nominal political
opponents.
The Home Rule, however, which ex-
ponds its f1atulence and its 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 forcec
into the absurd attitude of proposing
the withdrawal of the United States
from its most recent annexation and
relapse into the provisional Repub
lie or the older monarchy. The press
of the United States and many of it
statesmen have observed this fact, and
the tso-called) Home Rule party in tn
present campaign is everywhere iden
tilted with this palpable absurdity. l
it should gain the election, Congress
would almost certainly intervene and
by restricting the suffrage, or pre-