Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-16
PROBLEMS OF HAWAII
Proposed Establishment Of
County Government.
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LATE ELECTION FRAUDS
IT
PROSPERITY OF THE SUGAR RAILS
ING INDUSTRY.
Ravages of "Leaf Hopper" a Devas-
tating Insect-Production of Pine
apples-Utilizing Water Power.

| Qengthily reprinted here), as lately con-
| Quoted before he congressional committee
on territories. The question before them
! was that of sending out to Hawaii a COM
| mission to investigate the right of Terri
| torial Delegate Kubio to his seat in the
| next Congress- the democratic candidate,
| Iaukea, claiming that the formers election
| was invalidated by fraud. The committee
| naturally held that mo committee of the
Fifty-eighth Congress would attempt to de-
eide the right of delegate to seat in the
| Fifty-ninth Congress- Nor was any COM
mission thought necessary.
| Frauds Were Proved.
1 would say that there can be no doubt
| that the frauds charged really existed to
| considerable extent, as proved before the
| Federal Circuit Judge Dole in Honolulu.
They consisted mainly in the employment
| for several weeks before election of sew
eral hundred native Hawaiian voters as
| laborers upon the public roads at high
| wages, with the threat that unless they
voted the republican ticket they would lose
| their jobs. They were aided to believe this
| threat by being told that the secrecy Of
| their (Austraian) ballots was destroyed
| by numbered stub being attached, winch
number was not torn off when the ballot
! was put in the box. The threat was eff
| fective, and the laborers were voted In
gangs. Such was the fact, and many of
the stubs were not torn off, as required
| by law.
The answer to this is that the actual
! fraud was of very limited extent was PROB
| ably confined chiefly to Honolulu, and could
have no appreciate effect upon the total
| vote Of the territory, whether for delegate
| or for the legislature. The republican vote
| in both cases was nearly double the com
bined votes Of both the opposing parties
All the members chosen to the Legislature
were republicans, except one. 1t is, OF
1 10 hot ca Cyrp q
| suit could have been gained by fraud. Nor
| since the method of fraud employed has
| been exposed is it at all likely to be at
| tempted again.
The Home Rule Party.
| A further dissertation is called for by
| remarks of Delegate Kuhio Kalanianaole
| which sought to correct a statement of his
secretary, Mr.. G. B. Mcclellan, to the eff
| feet that the home ule'party, which car
| ried the election of 1900, was party or
| ganized on racial lines. The delegate en-
| phatically denied that it was so organized,
| or that it sought to divide on race lines
| He affirmed that it was organized In oppo-
sition 10 annexation. l desire to point out
that the name home rule" did not begin
| to be used by that party until two years
| after annexation had been accomplished in
! 1898. 1t had previously been known as the
''royalfst' party, whose object was the
| restoration of the queen to the throne.
That possibility having been subverted by
| annexation, It's leader, Robert Wilcox, re-
organized 1t on the basis of uniting the
native Hawaiian voters against the white
| American voters. The name, home rule,
| which they still use can have no other
significance than that of rule by the home
| or native people, to whom the islands be-
! long, over the whites, who are aliens and
strangers. The name itself of the party is
| thus avowal of division on rate lines,
and has always been SO understood. we
| all regard 1t as most happy indication
| t1o tl,a y-al Inv ha
| rule vote in the late election that they are
content to have equal rights with the
whites, and to act fraternally.
! The delegates disavowal of his secretary's
| description of the home rulers may doubt
| less be understood an effort to escape
| a liability to become unpopular with the
natives, who might easily resent being SO
| unfaVorably characterized before Congress.
! Prince Kuhos position is a very peculiar
one In Washington he's an American, and
| a stanch republican; at home he is a Ha-
| waiian of the Hawaiians, and owes all his
especial consideration to his royal birth and
| heritage, having been in direct line of sue
| cession TO the now abolished throne. His
| position as delegate is due solely to his
! resulting popularity with the natives, who
| hold the majority. Unless under that po-
| litical constraint the whites, who run air
| the business interests here would secure
| delegate fully competent TO represent those
| interests. Kuhio owes his election entirely
| to a race distinction.
Work of the New Legislature.
| The new legislature convened and or
| ganiZed the week before last. The speaker
| chosen by the lower house was honest,
reliable man, who appointed honest chair
men of committees, giving a sound pros
| pect of exclusion of the various grating
irregularities which have heretofore been
| a conspicuous feature. The two houses
| speedily settled down to diligent attention
| to business, with little of the usual waste
| of time in windy speechmaking, which has
| to be Interpreted from Hawaiian to Eng
| lish, and the reverse.
| There are two chief lines of action before
the legislature calling for much ability and
| industry. One is to fix the public eXpendi-
lures to the very limited income of the
| territory, extremely dlfhcult task. The
governor has placed before them a bud
| get to which, so far, they seem disposed
| to pay reasonable attention. The other
piece of work is that of creating county
| government an act for which has been
| Carefully prepared by a commission, in
hope that it may meet the need 1t will
| be remembered that county act was
passed two years ago, put peiore II c0uid
| Validity and was abandoned, and special
session of the legislature revised the appro-
| pria ton bill accordingly. 1t is hoped that
| county act can now be adopted which will
pass muster.
Demand for Local Government.
There has been urgent demand for local
| government, anu d otpPe-ioiio u
tration among minSr sections of the is
lands. The measure heldsai leading place in
the last election, and the legislators feel
| pledged to promote 1t. At the same time
| there is a strong and pr6bably growing OPP
| position to inauguratin&s county govern
ment at the present time, mainly
| count of the certainty large increase
| of cost In administrators, 1t Is going to
| be very difficult to- pf1vide suitably for
the public expenditures Rn the present sys-
| tenn. and hard to see how the means for
county government5eangb found. 1t Is a
| great satisfaction TO BE. able to report
| favorably upon the disposition of this new
| legislature and the prospects Of their work
| That wretched "banderlog" quality which
| prevailed in the first territorial legislature
| Of four years ago, which was home rule
| BODY. and which was still conspicuous in
| the second in 1908, is only slightly per-
| centible in this third legislature.
Prosperity Of Sugar Planters.
Our predominant business interest that
of producing cane sugar. is just now expe-
riencing a strong tide of prosperity. Cur
rent prices of raw sugar at New York have
of late been ranging at and above five
cents a pound, instead of the prevailing
- T1rf In