The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-02-04
Hands Hot
Roast To
Governor


TON, JUMPS ALL OVER CARTER
judge Gear the leading counsel for
n. l.. McCaullDss foo the matter of the |
Lanai deal, declares that the appeal to !
the Supreme Court is Co DE taken. He !
and a. q. VI. Robertson the associate !
counsel. began today TO prepare the !
papers 90 present Co the Territorial |
Supreme Court for a writ of error to
enable the case to DE carried to the
Supreme Court at Washington. IL is
expected that the papers viii Dee pre-
pared within a few day and the motion
for a writ of error viii be presented to
the Supreme Court during the week
The attorney generals department
contends that the case is now out Of
court and if it is desired to take the
matter to the supreme Court at Wash
ington, an entirely new proceeding to
set the deal aside, win have TO be ms
tituted. This contention is disputed by
Gear. who contends that the case is
subject of appeal i'm it's present shape.
81 do not anticipate" said Gear this
morning "any difficulty about the Su-
preme Court allowing us the writ of
error / can see no reason why such
writ should be denied. If such action
is taken by our Supreme Court, the next
course to be followed will be to go di-
rect to the Supreme Court at Washing
ton, and sue for the writ there. This
lis a case that is subject to appeal and
we propose to take one.
Il can not help but regard the action
of Governor Carter in making public
that letter to him from President, as
Iabout the most fOlish break of a series
of numerous foolish acts by the Gov
ernor 1t was characteristic of Car
ter
There are some men who are so
Unsuitable in their desire to bask in the
limelght of publicity that they are ap-
Iparently willing to go to the extent Of
being the voluntary subjects of ad-
verse criticism. A fool does not object
Ito being the butt of redcule, the but
of criticism 1t seems to me that the
experience that the Governor had in
the Macarthur affair where he was all
but removed from office for making
public that correspondence, would have
taught him a lesson but apparently he
has not profted by the rather caustic
criticism that was made from Washing
ton. He has just made public a letter
from the President that puts the presi-
ldent in a ridiculous light. For in
stance the President announces i'm his
message to Congress the following re-
lative to Hawaii:
! 1.-THE needs of Hawaii are peculiar;
every aid should be given the islands,
/ and our efforts should be unceasing to
J develop them along the lines of COM
munity of small freeholds, not of
great planters with cooke titled es-
tates. Situated as this Territory is, in
the middle of the Pacific there are du-
ties imposed upon this small community
which do not fall in like degree or
manner upon any other American
community. This warrants our treat
ing it differently from the way in which
we treat Territories contiguous to or
surrounded by sister Territories or
States, and justifies the setting aside of
a portion of our revenues to be eX-
pended for educational and internal
improvements therein. Hawaii is now
making an effort to secure immigration
fit in the end to assume the duties and
burdens of full American citizenship,
and whenever the leaders IN the various
industries of those islands finally adopt
our ideals and heartily join our admin
iistration in endeavoring to develop a
middle class Of substantial citizens, a
/ way will then be found to deal with
the commercial and industrial prob
lens which now appear to them so
serious. The best Americanism is that
which aims for stability and perma-
nency Of prosperous citizenship, rather
than immediate returns on large masses
of capital.
"But in that letter to the governor,
the President utters sentiments dame
trically opposed to the principle en-
inundated in his message. In that
letter to Garter he expresses himseit
as favoring the proposition Of giving
control of our small islands to some
rich man. very much doubt If the
president will relish the idea Of being
Iput into the ridiculous position, through
the actin of the Governor of practi-
cally regulating his recommendations
in the message that was sent to Con-
gress on December 4. I am inclined
to think that the governor may receive
some more letters from the President
relative to the Lanai deal"