The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-04-27
Kearney And
. The Sand Lots

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}s'p7 y years His brief and
meteoric career, however What
of great leader great eomer He had the shrewdnes make
moral that created sympathy
fornia he seems the embodiment Of the Chinese sentiment which
found expression tearing down Chinese wash houses driving
Chinese and other forms of mob violence But he told the writer of
this far having his
purpose of the with which his connected that
mob violence against the Chinese ceased the he took the
form and pointed better According his statements
made twenty after the events themselves and there
fore possibly embodyng opinions
the events his great work. the thing for which he and his
Stood the establishment of the constitutional and political prnci
pie that every nation had inherent right determine for itself how
upon which the Chinese Exclusion Up to the time
he took lead he said sentiment against Chinese
expression IN oveTng Chinese wash houses cTowdng Chinese off
the sidewalks and in other forms of violence But said Kearney
ater took the lead there another Chinese wash house
overturned a Chinese mobbed."
Allowing something for superiority indsigl foresight
what Keaey said borne out by the history of the time and Of the
movement and DR. E. Benjamin Andrews in his History OF the Last
Quarter of Century published Scrbners during 1906 subsan
TALLY. 4 we "
But while results OF the Chinese agitation with which Kea
ney connected the Widespread and perhaps the
most seemingly enduring, the movement with which Kearny
cated his name and o time III large degree directed was tar more
profound had much nobr motives than the Chinese agitation and
in fact had effects which the end may enduring
The which Kearney leading which
the Sand Lots gave their fact ntmOnopostc and
genuine California that suffering
profoundly from land monopoly and railroad monopoly Inc TACT
that these the fundamental monopoes always clearly
recognized and corporations SUCH looked public
miles, when in fact was only as land or railroad monopos that they
menace.
Kearney movement confined
following, principally the cities of California But simultaneously
throughout the there deep respect
and always honeter against the evils To
large extent the heaney movement and the Granger movement as the
called worked They forced the
calling of Constitutional convention, and united they able
control it.
That real direction OF the that that direction
merely chinese clearly by the
monOpo those who really endangered by the
is shown by the interests and the who about warng and
undermining those especially who either principle
self opposed the anti Chinese the
mCnopos and the railroad mOnopOs Lloyd Tevis who through
his life popularity believed have handled the corruption
that raised fight the sand oer almost universally held
in disesteem by the people of California
though Kearny corrupted honesty
pose sincerity his following especially
suit that though of attempted by
kept and of the visionary ideas of element
the constitution which framed by
OF 1879 has proved excellent Some
embodied have worked their full
supported by harmonious principles in other respects
bodied have worked we'll Some have been copied
Others still being urged by refomers The principle
land values independent of the improvements which
much favor The railroad commission established constitution
has proved of ncacuabe value to California.
The constitution adopted it was forged in
Turbulent times but times were pro-
ductve of much that good
With set in following the adoption of the new
constitution Keaney retired dcedied leader From that time to
his death he lived whose sincerity and
heVed lie popularity supposed live
teres whom he had served by his venay the power
lie was born in Ireland in I847 and from his his
twenyhl he followed the 1872 became drayman in
Ban Francisco and at the time he became leader the
prospecting greatly.