The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-06-30

pleased to see that under the Terri
torial laws you have taken long step
t toward the right kind of publicity il
:. corporate affairs. Now, that public
ity does not mean that we should pr,
: into the affairs of any business cor
poration; that we should expose thei
business secrets to the prying inquisi
, tor or to the man who is desirous TO
Information without any good reason
but publicity that gives 10 the stock
holders and gives to the community
that has granted the rights to thes'
corporations a security in the condi
tions of the corporation, gives the
pubic information as to who the stock
holders are, the amount of stock helC
by them, what the assets and the liabil
tiles are, what the profits are, whether
the corporation is doing well or doing
ill-all those facts are shown upon the
corporation returns OF your Territory
Now that is the right kind of publicity;
that is the publicity that we have been
trying for on the mainland, and have
been very pleased to see how far you
have gone in that direction here.
/ 1t has been on the question of taxa
ton that we have been moving on the
mainland, to arrive at more general
system of organizing taxes for the
support of both State and Federal gov
| ernment. The Republican party has
been standing for an equality in taxa
ton, for preventing lodging of taxes
by the man who has great deal and
compelling the man or the corporation
/ who has much to pay his fair share
of the taxes of any community. Now
it has been held by some that these
actions of President Roosevelt and
those with him have been attacks up
on property, and they have been held
by many Democrats and by many Of
what have been called the extremists
in our own party as being simply an
attack upon the rich man or the great
corporation. Now that is not true.
Instead of it being an attack upon
the lawful corporation or the man it
has been making it possible for the
corporation that does wisely, or the
honest man, to do better than ever be-
fore, because it has cleared away all
that has been corrupt and bad in the
illegal and Illicit corporations. Cap
plause).
This Republican Administration has
always stood for the rights as we'll as
the duties of the common man, and
when 1 say the common man 1 mean
the average man. This administration
has been trying, both by law enacted
by Congress and by the enforcement of
law through the courts, to make it
possible for the individual citizen to
have a greater opportunity to culti-
vate himself, to raise his family in
better condition, and to make more of
his own individual opportunities. 1t
has been the keynote of much that has
been done, namely, opening the door
of opportunity to the individual, doing
away with all question of special priv
ileges and special right, and saying TO
every man and woman, There stands
the open door; you may go into it and
go along the path just as far as you
are willing" it has been creating q
citizenship based upon the wiping out
of prejudice between race and race and
to say to each individual,
whatever be the color of his skin, that
he shall have the same chance, the
same right as the man next him. If !
you fail. as many will, then it is not |
the fault of an unjust or tyrannical
operation of law.
These, my fellow citizens, nave been
some of the main issues that have |
been before the people of our country |
during these past few years. Much |
has been done; long strides have been
taken, but much more is to be done.
If this administration should now fail
to receive vote of confidence; if you
should send from these islands here a
delegate in opposition to the policies
Of the Republican administration, if
your votes here should indicate a la
Of confidence in what has been done,
then l say there would be disaster to
Dur country should such a vote exist
on the mainland as well.
Our Democratic friends have nothing
10 offer that is better than that which
has been done by the Republican ad-
1t is true that their con-
vention has not yet been held, but we
<now who their leader will be and we
Snow what promises he has made to
he people of this country in years
zone by. Now what is there in the
'ecord of the Democratic party that
makes it wise for you or for me to
rust to them to carry on the policies
hat have been inaugurated during
hese last eight years? 1 am speaking
hus of the Democratic leader and oil
he Democrats. l am not one of those
Who indulge in vituperation or abuse;
recognize that there are many WISE
many patriotic, many honest men, who
ifer from me and from my associates
IN political matters, but l ask you not
o think of the individual but to think
If the record of the party that will be
represented by the leaders this year
fear by year they have come before
he country ami have offered solutions
# these problems. Twice during the
asst forty years Democratic President
las been elected. And now 1 wish on |
his occasion on the day of his funeral,
o speak a word of tribute to that !
yreat Democrat and that great Ameri-
an citizen. (Applause) Differing as
We did from him in politics. yet we
recognized in him a man of high per-
onal integrity, a man whose individ-
lal opinion was not swayed or
ed aside by party corruption, a man /
Who many times stood against,
is party when he believed it wrong, g
man who had the courage,
Then the great crisis came between I
Onest money and dishonest rnoney to r