The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-13

know that the Commissioner of Imni-
grafton has approved the policy of this
Territory in securing labor. You know
that President Roosevelt has approved
it and heartily supports it. What sort
of a fight, John, do you expect to put
up against the President, against the
man who is making the biggest trusts
and monopolies in the world come to
time and obey the laws? There wouldn' t
be a sign of you left after you got into
scrap with Teddy. This immigration
law of ours is the first law Of it's kind
that makes our planters get their Ia
Dor under a definite and legal system.
It does away with all the old shang-
haing; men can come here without be-
ing at the mercy of migration
sharks; It abolishes every trace of slave
trade in labor, but it compels the
planters to pay more money for their
labor and they will get better labor.
For the first time they are giving land
to their 1aborers, and if you were
far-seeing statesman, John, you would
advise every Hawaiian laborer to get
in on the deal, to work on the planta-
lions for a few years and get their
own acre or two of land with their
own little homes. The planters can
not refuse TO the Hawaiians what they
are giving to Europeans, and they
would save the expense of bringing Ia
Dor here. But whatever you do, John,
don't try to buck up against the Pres
ident in any fight against immigration.
IF you do, you'll never know what hit
you.
POLICY OF CONDEMNATION.
Now, while we are about it, let us
gather up a little more political drift
wood. Tell me, as a Republican lead
er, if it has become a regular policy Of
the party to condemn every Governor?
President Mckinley appointed Gov
ernor Dole. After while the Eepub
ican party, in convention assembled,
refused to endorse him; then the party
condemned him; then there was howl
to remove him. He was not removed
and when the time came for a success
sor President Roosevelt appointed
Governor Carter and he is now getting
the same dose of medicine. Is this
potion to be regularly administered by
the Republicans to their local execu-
tive? If so, count me out. I've got
lust as much Hawaiian blood IN me,
John, as you have. But m an Amer
lean too, Just as you are, and l don't
believe that every President of the
United States is making mistake
about our governors The man has not
vet been born who won't make an er-
ror once in a while. Did you never
come out wrong in adding up column
of figures, John? But you didn't go
round bowling about it. No, you cor
rected the error and did better next
time. And that one error of yours, or
NAV be two or three of them, were not
held up against you by the directors
of your company. They did not go
round town knocking you. Not bit
of it. they watched you try to improve
and knew that you were doing better
because Of the error you had made.
CREDIT SIDE OF THE LEDGER.
Your account in the Inter-1sland di-
rectors' ledger shows that you got
credit for your good deeds as wen as
having something charged up on the
debit side. Is it fair not to give
governor any credit? Must the only
entries made in his account be of mis-
takes7 Is that fair play? You seem
to think that Governor Carter does eV-
erything for the planters. Don't you
know that he has had many rows with