The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-01-30


read r, the handwriting the wall demand that this Terri
tory be settled by people who have interest here interest
in the upbudng OF these islands, the
Of law and order The administration Washington has spoken
uncertain this subject Congress has only been
held check by the promises of the dominant interests here and
these promises carried the augmented
and enarged that body to take hand and
adjust them in way revolutionary than the reaconay e
ments here dreamed Of
Many of those who dominate business is
lands are so wrapped up and ceneed in their own schemes for
trend of the mainland Owing conditions which
past they have very exagg
aed idea of the relative importance of affairs here
comprehend that this Territory small fraction the
lean commonwealth and that as component part thereof this
community submit the will of majority. The Amer
people have always been noted for love of fair play and
they will find the people the mainland ecprocae
the American people have their weather this Territory The
people been the islands
the mainland through Oriental competition aided by the who
employ the Oenas simply Tor the added poht there in is Them
entirely needless of the welfare OF the have spread through
many communities version of conditions here that all
aattering to the local planting interests.
The problem OF ownership and influence the Unit
ed States today overshadows all other The abest
men and economists graphing with It, The meght OF pub
iciy exhibiting the American people condition of
that they dreamed existed The nsdiou of
the giant corporations unnoced
The individual citizen being bound hand and foot Every
nue. of advancement being closed him. But the statesmen
patriots heart have
already foresen the inevitable result of
called halt They have pointed logical consequences of
this awess regime and the people beginning the
real OF affairs
One OF the potent if the potent for
Americas greatness today is the policy that adopted
by the grand who laid the foundations of
gard to the disposition of the public domain 1t this policy
that developed the of individual ownership that
today and the buwak of American prosperity liberty hap
pnes Under every individual could possess his home
and pass heritage his children And it Mig
gardy allowance but ample heritage hundred sixty
broad of the best the country had.
The individual citizen thus had vested interest the
try of his birth adoption And it this individual who
has been at all times ready defend and if give his
les blood for the that has treated him generously
The American people debt of gratitude
formulated this policy that be paid and which will
apparent time rolls by Precedent in other times
and nations had established many different systems dealing
the public domain but they them all aside and like Wash
ngon when he refused the kngy declared for the ys
that would insure the largest individual ownership
this day outside the large cities the land mostly hands
OF individual ownethe large farming class that the backbone
of the nation.
to this the policy that has allowed the develop
the great corporate today
tiles and of America the policy
adopted public had adopted in re-
gard this domain created under corporate influence
individual would today large am interest
the other and the profits and emolumnts of the generations in
stead OF being centered in the hands of would go
dusrous But A few lines in the
poaton, and is then practically left peases The
experience of hundreds thousands of has been gradually
formulating the laws that restrain the individual but the corpora
ton is created in domain practically without law and without
order What could be the result other than the present chao Such
dark ages
But as concerns the ndivid-
ua The result has been that the who form these
guided by the of greed
human nature have retained control OF them either by
foul there being practically of
dtions binding them all regard for their fellow
those dependent having relations with
shut from participation their activities
who works for the corporation has hope OF becoming
instances than With
tor advancement thus closed them the abong
has been forced into that hostile position antagonst capital
that is OF the the stability society
that exists today Ever her divine mission the Catholic
church has stepped in the oppression of the
The strong and the late amend Pope Leo the greatest
of the forth encycical pocamng right
the individual share the product of his pnc
paly through utilizing the funds and of
represented by deposits the banks COM
panies and of similar corporate
domain has been But has the