The Pacific commercial advertiser., 1906-07-31
HAWAII LAND
LAW IS NOT
AMERICAN
Judge Robinson Gives
His Views to- Senator
Perkins.

| There have been movements from
time to time to secure the repeal OF
movements have taken various direc-
! tions. The last, apparently, is an eff
| fort to interest United States Senator
George c. Perkins in the matter, made
! by Circuit Judge Robinson. The let
/ ter of Judge Robinson was forwarded
! by Senator Perkins to the Interior De-
partment and, coming through chan
nels, has reached Honolulu. It is pub
lished now by consent of the Acting
Secretary of the Interior as a matter
specifically stated to be of public inter
cite public disoussion-as it doubtless
will. The letter with the enclosure
from Senator Perkins referring it to
the Secretary of the Interior, follows:
ON AMERICAN LINES.
First Circuit Court. Territory Of Ha-
waii.
w. j. Robinson, Third Judge.
Honolulu, T. H., April H. 1906.
Dear Sir: In his message to the
present Congress, the President of the
United States stated in the most en-
phatic terms, that the growth and de-
velopment of the Territory of Hawaii
must be along and upon American
lines, pure and simple. and strictly in
accordance with American principles
The wisdom of this utterance requires
little argument in it's support. The
Territory of Hawaii is an integral part
of this great nation. and its growth
and development. in furtherance of the
purpose and object of it's creation-its
ultimate admission as one Of the states
of the United States, must be along
those lines that will eventually lead to
that end.
How best to attain this end has been
a fruitful theme with those who have
at heart the welfare and best interests
of this Territory. Many attempts have
recently been made and are now being |
made to bring to this Territory de-
sirable class of fixed and permanent |
residents or settlers who will develop
the practically unlimited agricultural |
resources of the Territory, and those
who, with their descendants, will best
serve to sustain, govern and maintain
the strong, self-reliant. self-support-
ing commonwealth of the future.
ALIEN PAUPERS.
The efforts in this direction that
nave been made and that are now be-
ng made. for the most part have been
20 induce the immigration of alien
1aupers as permanent residents and
prospective citizens of the United
States, and that in a community in
which the leaven of Americanism is
represented by not more than twenty
i've per cent of the entire population.
Portuguese, Porto Ricans, Koreans,
md last, but not least Molokans, have
,een introduced to us as a fair typel
# the permanent residents upon whom
md upon whose descendants. their
plantation masters lead us to hope
hat the principles of American citi-
enship may be safely founded. Thesel
lien pauper laborers, in many in
tances social pariahs, moral lepers
nd religious fanatics in the country
rom which they hail, reared and fos-
cred in lands and under governments
o which the American form of gov
is an anomaly, possessing no
and but little intelli-
n intelligent American citizenship
uring the present generation, and
ffer but little hope for substantial
for many generations to
ONE.
REPEAL LAND LAWS.
In my judgment the only practical
tanner in which this Territory can be
eveloped along and upon traditional c
merican lines is by the extension of a
le general land laws of the United
tates, in the matter of the pre-emp
on and homesteading of the public
nds situated within this Territory. n
hder the Joint Resolution to Pro-
de for Annexing the Hawaiian Is
.nds to the United States approved T.
lly !. 1898. referred to locally as the
Newlands Resolutions appears the
blowing provision:
THE existing laws of the United v
-ates. relative to public lands shall d
IT apply to such lands in the Hawai-
n Islands: but the Congress OF the
nited States shall enact special laws
r their mana cement and disposition; Il
rovided. That all moneys from or
'oceeds of the same, except as re-
irds such part thereof as may be
;ed or occupied for the civil. military g.
naval purposes of the United States,
may be assigned for the use of the
cal government, shall be used solely
r the benefit of the inhabitants of the
awaiian Islands for educa tional and a.
her public purposes"
TOO MUCH POWER.
And an Act entitled IAN Act to Pro- =.
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