The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-08-28

lartillery. Health being of paramot,
importance to a mi'iaary base, the e
pense of maintaining it would.
course, become Federal charge. Grel
drainage projects as at the Waikii|
, flats, would naturally be carried out,
AS war base must be self-supportl
ing, under circumstances of long
siege. it would be the policy Of the
government to encourage the raising
of food products here and that by men
in sympathy with the aims and policies
| of the United States. Here we have a
chance for the small farmer of Ameri-
can blood. The government would
want him not only for his agriculture
but for adtunctive military service of
the kind that Major Ham suggested
in his address before the Chamber of
Commerce-an address which may well
be re-read for its hints of big things
to come.
Summing up the advantages of gov
eminent by commission, so far as 4
comprehend them, they are: A tremen-
dous reduction of taxes, simplifcation
of government, honesty in administra-
ton, the cutting out of our disrepu-
table politics, security of property, the
building of great public works, the
safeguarding of health, the establish
ment of food reproducing Industries and
a steady cash market for the farmer
The objections, as so far stated, are
as puerile as their newspaper source.
| There is talk of government by COM
mission as being "un-American," fffss =
the very seat of United States aua3..>-.
| ity is in district which a comm
rules; when the key of the Annex
| colonial policy, as shown in the 81
ippines, is government by comm1
and when American cities like GAN
ton. tired of rotten politics, are bed
ming to adopt that system America
ism expresses itself as well in Lout
lana parishes as 1t does in Ohio couuI
ties; as well in territories as it do IA
In states: as well under the system ,h|
authority required by conditions IA
Alaska as under that required by ccrs
ditions in Arizona; as well where thW
public utilities are controlled by a COM
mission. as in New York city as whered
they are subject to referendum as ind
some other towns. The only place fn-'
| corporated with the Union where
Americanism has little show is right
here in Hawaii where the possession
of foreign tongue is one of the quali-
fcations of suffrage, thus legalizing a
thing unknown to and rejected by all
other parts of America-namely, a non-
English speaking aboriginal citizen
ship; and where Asiatics. the natural
ization of whom is inhibited by Amer
lean law, are beginning to get the vot--
ing privilege by right of birth Here
is a place where Americanism is being
forced to the wall: a place where it
is the cherished cause of the small
minority; and anything we could do to
get government by commission would
be in the direction of Amerlcanism as,
expressed in the organic law of that
most American city in the world, the
capital Of the United STATES
Permit me in closing to smile at the
disingenuous remark of the most ridfc-I
ulous paper in Honolulu that there.
could be no parallel between govern
ment by commission here and in,
/ Washington, because, in Washington,
resident may go to his native state
to vote for President. May I ask why.
not from here under the same systentg
of government? What would there be-
to prevent? 1t is In territory likel
this, not in district such as 1t is
hoped the Hawaiian war base will
become part, where the privilege of
voting for President is denied.
VINDEX.
! Honolulu. August 26.