The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-29
TOWN TALK
By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.

from both sides. If you want to get
an estimate of Whitney, ask some of
the boys in the Boys clubs that he
has been working with. They can
tell you pretty nearly the truth.
There is one reason that Whitney
won't run that am going to tell about.
Attorney General Hemenway is just a
plain monopolist., He has Whitney in
his department and he knows what he
is worth and he won't let go of him.
1 believe that Governor Frear would
do this city good if he would fire Whit
ney, on condition that he should run
for sheriff.
!. I: :: ::
In an off moment in the comfortable
offices of McCabe, Hamilton & Kenny,
stevedores, the other day, there gath
cred some half dozen salts and all
round waterfronters and the conversa-
tion between puffs on pipes, pills on CT
gars and whiffs at cigarettes turned to
hbOub oNNChbGNh WOllu BlOblNlAlb III
this wise, everybody talking:
In Australia we have further adj
vanced in the matter of exclusion. We
want Australia for a white mans
country and we believe in keeping out
Oriental labor and giving Australia a
chance to develop the land and null
tiply the population on her own ac-
count"
well what are you going to do in
the event of few hundred, or few
million, for that matter, of Japanese
or Chinese or Hindoos or ct ceteras,
landing on your shores and taking pos
session of the lands they like the best?
All you could do in Australia would be
to cry Shoot and say Please go away
and leave us!'"
who's going to do it?"
1T isn't a question of who's going
to do it, but matter of how you're
going to help it,"
We'll, what would you do in the
United States if a horde landed and
TOOK possession! =
"Oh, but they can't"
And why?"
1--WE have a navy"
"Oh, have you, them"
You bet!'
We'll, SOS Japan"
What are you fellows talking
about? Isn't the land meant for any
body who can work it? Or who can
get it?"
"Oh, get out! If you had a garden
and another man wanted it, would you
let him take it from you?"
Not on you're life! I'd kick him
out.''
Then if a people want to live along
certain lines in a land of their own,
haven't they a right to keep out those
they don't want; those who would up
set their way of living?"
That's right, for example: Suppose
all the factories in England combined
to throw out all their young men and
women employees and imported Hin
docs at half the wages, what would be-
come of the girls and boys fired? Why
they'd become thieves, anarchists,
loafers; criminals, assassins and corp
SEES through hunger!"
Perhaps, but still the combined en-
ployers could fire their white help if
they wanted to-"
Yes, perhaps, and that's where it
would the rotten government to allow
such a thing"
Indeed, but If the employers would
spend money literally enough, in some
countries, not mentioning names, dc
you not suppose legislation to favor
anything they wanted could be effect
ed?"
"Sure!"
Then, say l, the only form of gov
eminent worth having is a good tyran
ny; a one-man absolutism If he IL
good man there would be no happier
country" e
And if, after chosen to rule, h,
proves unworthy?"
remove nlm.
Easy enough to say"
Easy enough to do"
But, take it in the United State
under such system. Taft is choseI
King and the Democrats wanted Bryan
would there not be a constant itching
on the part of the Democrats to re
move Taft?"
"Oh, you're old fashioned! Unde
the good tyranny system there woul,
} not be any Republicans nor any De
2 mocrats."
= How would they be divided?"
t There should be no division ex
t cept where the happiness of the peOpl
! is concerned"
l But that's just where the line
4 separation in politics comes in. TIL
h Republicans, for example, believe tn
Q people can't be happy without thei
i administration and the Democrats al
convinced that there is only content
a ment under their sway; ask Turrill