The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22

STANDS IOr one Jnlng, the extension OF
the Federal land laws to Hawaii. That
is set forth in two paragraphs of their
printed literature. am well aware
that the Detht9tsts have come to real
izing sense Of what they have done
and now state that they have not gone
that far, stating I believe that the
principle Of the law should be APP
piled 10 Hawaii. I want to read to you
from their printed principles:
lin the fist place their platform
states mere that they believe in the ex-
tension OF the principle of the Federal
land Law. If the principle does not
mean the law itself, I do not know
what il does mean The principle of the
law is what that law states, but I will
not split hairs about that.
I'm the second place there is their
memorial presented to Secretary Gar
field in which they sad: 'Notwith-
standing the fact that grave abuses
have existed under the Federal home
stead laws-and your statement based
on your experience in administering
those laws we must accept as conclu-
sive on that point-we urge the extern
sion OF those laws to the public lands
of this Territory as the most practical
means of abolishing the abuses ana
meeting the needs that you have had
pressed upon your attention everywhere
you had been in these islands. In this
we do not discredit your judgment, but
we would point out that there is like
lihood of such amendments to the Fed
eral homestead laws as will prevent the
abuses arising under them and will
make them serve, because the attention
of Congress is being directed to those
evils by yourself and from all direc-
tions. We urge, the immediate suspen-
sion of that portion of the Hawaiian
land law authorizing either sale or ex-
change of public lands; that the home
stead lands granted by way of home,
stead shall remain subject to the home
stead quality; that the Federal home
stead law be extended here
''The extension of the Federal home
stead law to Hawaii. Think of it!
What does it mean3 1t means that
they are attempting to attain the inn
possible with the President against it
and with Congress against it, for the
Joint Resolution expressly declared
slider the loss of revenue there would
be, 100000 year and rapidly increas-
ing IN amount. That money, if the
Democrats attained their end, would go
to the Federal treasury and not to the
Hawaiian.
/ eff we asked Congress to do this it
would be a confession that we are not
even capable Of doing those things that
we have already been entrusted with
by Congress. It would be the first step
toward government by commission. Do
You want to 60 baek2 Do you want
government by commission? [Cries of
'No!'] Let us go forward, not back; to
statehood, not to government by COM
mission. If our public land is ever
turned over to the Federal government
it is lost to us forever and we will be
in the position Of the mainland States,
with the exception of Texas, which has
its own public lands as we have.
"The extension of the Federal home
stead laws here would mean the appli
cation Of laws that are not applicable
to conditions now on the mainland and
here would be even less applicable. We
complain now that some of the Fed
eral laws are not applicable and are not
enforced as we would wish Would you
GO 5000 miles away to Washington to
have our land laws administered Would
you have a native applying from Kau
or Kona for a bit of land obliged to
write TO Washington to get It, or have
him apply 10 someone here sent from
Washington?
"When Secretary Garfield was here
the Democrats asked him to have the
laws extended here, laws the workings
of which he knows better than any
man in the United States. He told
them in substance that they didn It
know what they were asking for and
were trying to jump out of the frying
pan into the FIRE Then the Democrats
scratched their heads and drew up their
memorial, stating that they were not
trying TO contradict Garfield but stat
ing that they thought the laws might
be amended. Now the people of the
United States have been trying to
amend those laws, but they cannot.
There are land sharks on the main
land. Just the same as there are land
sharks here There are corporations
lputting dummy settlers on the land
and securing them and they do not
want the laws amended. Think what
| little Hawaii could do to get any amend
ments when the whole of the United
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