The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-28
DEMOCRATS HAD
TWO MEETINGS
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on the land laws. This would hav,
been for the benefit of the people al
enabling the people of the Territory
without any further action of Congress:
to deal with their own public lands il
their own way. But instead of working
for such an amendment, which was
what the party pledged the Delegate tc
do, and which would have been in the
interest of the people, the Delegate
worked and secured an amendment ex.
tending the term for which public ag
ricultural lands could be leased from
five to fifteen years. which was purely
and simply in the interests of the plan
tations, and not in the interests of the
people.
THE Delegate said McCandless,
- has shown no desire to work in the
interests of the people. In everything
he has done he has shown his utter dis
regard for the people-for his own peO-
ple-if there is to be any distinction
made in citizenship His whole course
in Congress has, been In line with what
he said in has speech this afternoon at
the corner of Bethel and King streets,
that there is no use giving the Ha-
waiians any land anyway, they will
simply sell it to the plantations. In
the face of that declaration, made pub
licly in the hearing of a great many,
in speech in his own behalf, what con
fidence can you have in any promises
ho 10 - he 1C1
Do you Hawaiians suppose he will work
for your interests on the land ques-
ton? Do you who are not Hawaiians
suppose he will work in your interests
on the land question unless you are
plantation owners?
1.-THE Delegate talks much about the
appropriations he has secured for this
Territory. He talks of the approprla.
tons for Pearl Harbor, for the deep
ening of Honolulu harbor, and for the
breakwater at Hilo. Whether he Sc
cured those appropriations or not may
be a question of doubt. Senator Per
kins of California says he secured
them, and as he is chairman of an
important committee, his claim has at
least strong confederation. But sup.
posing the Delegate did secure them
or help secure them2 What good are
these appropriations going to do you
men, if the work is to be done by Chi
pese and Japanese? The Leprosarium
on the Island of Molokai is being
built, as the testimony before the
grand jury shows, by Chinese. Who
is gcing to do the work on the Hilo
bleakwater9 Have any of you heard
of any Hawaiians being employed
there? Who is going to do the work
on Pearl Harbor? 1t is reported that
the Delegate in speaking on this sub
iect, in reply to some of my speeches,
said that Hawaiians were not barred
from working on these public improve
ments. Great heavens, | should hope
that American citizens were not
barred But is that the best that the
Delegate can do? Couldn t he have
secured a rider on these appropriation
bills providing that only citizen labor
should be employed on the public
works these appropriations were to
pay for2 CQuldn It he at least have
tried? I have here a paper where the
Delegate over his own signature says
that he received a petition from the
people of Hawaii asking that Congress
provide that on Federal works in this
Territory only citizen labor be EN-.
plcved. He says he got the petition
T1inted That IS all he seems to have
done with it. He didn' t get any law
passed to require only citizen labor to
be employed on Federal works in this
Territory. Lots of good it will do
YOU, when you see Chinese and Japa-
nese at work ON these public works,
to Know that your Delegate got your
petition printed.
'EThe Delegate says that McCand
less lies if he says he did not promise
the people of Hawaii and Maui that
if he was elected they could each get
$50 acres of public lands for $40. Now,
you don t call it fair play to condemn
a man without giving him a hearing.
The Delegate never heard me say any
thing of the kind. / have never talk
ed with him on the subject. If he ever
heard anyone say that I said any such
thing. it must have been an enemy of
,aine that said so, for [ never said
il. y
McCandless read statements showing
the amount of public land there is on
each of the islands When he came
to Lanai, he said that this had all
been given to one man. and that man
was now telling the natives who had
been born there and had always lived
there that they could no longer farm
the land there, nor shoot goats. Let
tiers showing this had been received,
he said. BY George Lowe from some
Of the natives on Lanai, and they had
been read by Lowe at the meeting at
the corner of Bethel and King streets
in the hearing of Delegate Kuhio.
McCandless gave an outline Of the
public land law authorized
bv Congress in 1904, showing that
Congress was willing to so legislate
as to extend the principle Of the Fed
aral land laws to this Territory if only
the Delegate would ask it to.
Judge Edings said: FThe people of
this island are about TO iuaugurate
new form of local self government
new to the Islands, though old else
where, for cities had been the cradle Of
liberty and independence. But city and
county government here is new. No
matter how well drawn the law Great
ing the CITY and County Of Honolulu
nav be. there are bound to arise many
lnestions of great concern. The City
and County Attorney is the legal adj
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