The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-05-28

OF the country. 1ney must De so ecu
Gated that they viii stand by eacl
other in time of war as well as :,
| peace. We must prevent the coming
| here of men with a low standard of lis
ing which would reduce the standard OF
our own people. We should bear il
mind what President Roosevelt said Il
| his last message to Congress:
! - Hawaii shall never become a Ter
! ritory in which a governing class OF
| rich planters exists by means of coolie
thereby rendered slower. The growth
must only take place by the admission
of immigrants fitted in the end to rs
sumo the duties and burdens of full
American citizenship
Our President, you will notice, use I
the word g shall''. He spoke for the
American people, who viii insist shat
Hawaii be Americanized, even at the
expense of retarding our growth, far
growth away from Americanization IS
not wanted. The sooner we all learn
this lesson the better, for it need not
retard our growth if we accept it, put
If we rebel and still seek coolie I15or,
and attempt to grow rich upon it, we
shall encounter hostility that viii
check our ultimate development.
1t is the duty of the citizen to Guilt
vate the highest and best citizenship
among those who come here. In lit
tie while your children viii take upon
themselves the duties of citizenship.
They must not be brought up as graft
ers, for CRATER is just an ordinary
thief. They must not be taught to
wax fat upon the wealth earned
through the sweat and toll of cheap
labor. They should be taught to toll
for themselves, to earn their living
honestly, and to be just and equitable
in their dealings with their fellowmen.
ESTABLISH HOMES.
1t is not intended or desired that Ha-
waii should be, or remain, a Territory
from which money can be drawn to
enable those living elsewhere to pass
their time in comfort, ease and luxury.
Homes must be established here, the
homes of those who work and the
homes of those who employ labor. In
this way, by upbuilding community
of homes we may hope to overcome the
local tendency that exists to impugn
the motives and place wrong impress
sion upon the actions of our fellowmen.
Such a tendency eventually recoils
upon the muckrakers. Let us search
for the good that exists rather than
for the evil.
THE KNOCKER DENOUNCED.
The Fknocker' is the modern muck
raker, in slang. Let us Judge our fell
lowmen with charity rather than with
suspicion that is usually the out
growth of a morbid, diseased and I'M
foh Il hn off Of
idleness, jealousy and discomfort. The
narrow, ult-fnding, nagging and
pickering disposition that exists here
is mean and contemplate in the ex
IRENE. Seeking fault in others, the de-
liberate misinterpretation of motives
suggests need of introspectjon-the
casting out of the mote that is in your
own eye before trying to pluck out the
beam that is in thy brothers. eye.
Judge not lest we be judged.
[ have used the term muckraker,
which, since President Roosevelt g ref
erence to Bunyan's famous character
has become term applied generally to
those who have eyes only for muck.
Honest, fair, well-founded criticism or
exposure of corruption Or error is valu-
able beyond description. But it is diff
ferent from SANDER and from reckless
and circulation of unbound
ed attacks upon our fellow citizens. 1t
is different also from the small spirit
of the knocker. In many communities
it happens that, by some accident or
other, small men at times are able to
seem large critics of public servants, |
and some discrimination is needed to |
Judge between the healthy honest critl- |
cism of the conscientious philosophical |
censor and that of the petty quibbler |
whose motives are personal. Further, |
in the heat of our political strivings, !
let US remember that SANDER is not |
politics and that innuendo should al |
ways be regarded with suspicion.
We should remember that not only is |
it wrong to bear false witness against
our neighbor, but that it is also an in
Justice to listen to those who bear false
witness. The man or body of men who !
spread or countenance Islander, started
by others, bear the guilt and response
bility for false witnessing. fully as
much as the originators of the SANDER.
MARKET FOR MUCK.
The man with the muckrake would
be harmless except to himself if there
was no market, no demand for the
[ believe we need to apply locally. Our
political strife has been full of muck
raking Some of those whose motives
are of the highest, whose personal char
acter and affiliations are above crltl-
lisa and those attentions are for moth
ing but wha is good, have been led
INTO cooperation with nuckrakers, and
have lined themselves as supporters OF
founded upon nothing more
than utterly unverifed and unreliable
personal ISLANDERS.
There are few crimes more easily,
often carelessly, committed, than that
IF bearing false witness against thy
leighbor and no other crime is there
against which the victim is so defense
ess. Our politics, l say, are too full of
his sort of thing. | hope our muck
-akers will try to break the bondage
which chained Bunyan's famous char
lcter to the muck.
IN THE END, PEACE.