The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-12-14


and enforce its own obligations to
other nations. The mob of single CITY
may al any time perform acts of law
| less violence against some class of for
| eigners which would plunge US ineo
| war. That city by itself would be pow
| erless to make defense against the for
eign power thus assaulted, and if in
dependent of this Government it would
never venture the performance of the
. acts complained Of The entire power
and the whole duty to protect the Of
Tending city or the offending commu-
nifty lies in the hands of the United
i States Government. 1t is unthinkable
that we should continue a policy under
which given locality may be allowed
, to commit a crime against a friendly
nation. and the United States Govern
ment be limited, not to preventing the
! commission of the crime, but, in the
last resort, to defending the people who
| have committed it against the conse-
quences of their own wrongdoing."
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
on the subject of capital and labor
the message contains the following pass
sageS:
In dealing with both labor and capi-
tai, with the questions affecting both
corporations and trades unions, there Is
one matter more important to remem-
Der than aught else, and that is the in
finite harm done by preachers of mere
discomfort. These are the men who
seek to excite a violent class hatred
against all men of wealth. They seek
to turn wise and proper movements for
the better control of corpora tions and /
for doing away with the abuses con-
nected with wealth into a campaign of
hysterical excitement and falsehood in
which the aim is to inf1ame to madness
the brutal passions of mankind. The |
sinister demagogs and foolish vision |
aries who are always eager TO UNDER |
take such campaign of destruction |
sometimes seek to associate themselves |
with those working for a genuine re- |
form in governmental and social meth |
DDS, and sometimes masquerade as such |
reformers. In reality they are the
worse enemies of the cause they profess |
to advocate, just as the purveyors of |
sensational SANDER in newspaper or |
are the worst enemies of all |
men who are engaged in an honest eff
fort to better what is bad in our social |
ard governmental conditions. To preach |
or a campaign of SANDER and invective |
against him, to seek to mislead and in |
fame to madness honest men whose |
lives are hard and who have not the |
kind of mental training which will per-
init them to appreciate the danger in |
the doctrines preached-all this is to |
commit a crime against the body poll |
tic and to be false to every worthy |
;nJa
tional life.
ENEMIES OF REFORM
Forever. while such preaching and |
such agitation may give livelihood |
and a certain notoriety to some of |
those who take part in it, and may
result in the temporary political sue
cess of others. in the long run every
such. movement will either fail or else
will provoke a violent reaction, which
Will itself result not merely in undo
ing the mischief wrought by the dem
agog and the agitator, but also in I'M
doing the good that the honest reform
er, the true upholder of popular rights,
has painfully and laboriOuSly achieved.
Corruption is never SO rife as in COM
munitieS where the demagOg and the
agitator bear full sway, because in
such communities all moral bands be-
come loosened, and hysteria and sem
sationalism replace the spirit of sound
judgment and fair dealing as between
man and man. In sheer revolt against
the squalid anarchy thus produced men
are sure in the end to turn toward any
leader who can restore order, and then
their relief at being free from the in
burdens of class hatred, vio- |
lence and demagogy is such that they
a n nj
dignation against misdeeds by men of
wealth; so that they permit a new
growth of the very abuses which wereI
in part responsible for the original out
break. The one hope for success for
our people lies in a reSolute and fear
less, but sane and cool-headed advance
along the path marked out last year by
this very Congress. There must be a
stern refusal to be misled into follow
ing either that base creature who ap-
peals and panders to the lowest in
stincts and passions in order to arouse
one set of Americans against their fell
lows, or that other creature, equally
base but no baser, who in a spirit of
greed or to accumulate or add to an
already huge fortune, seeks to exploit
his fellow-American with callous dis
regard to their welfare of soul and
body. The man who debauches others
in order to obtain high office stands
on an evil equality of corruption with
the man who debauches others for
financial profit; and when hatred is
sown the crop which springs up can !
only be evil
SAFETY IN SANITY.
1.-The plain people who think-the me- |
chanics, farmers, merchants, workers |
with head or hand-the men to whom |
American traditions are dear, who love !
their country and try to act decently |
by their neighbors, owe it to them |
selves to remember that the most dam |
aging blow that can be given popular
government is to elect an unworthy |
and sinister agitator on a platform of |