The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-02-29
TOWN TALK

Th, petition ur IU. buckles. spend
tbrII kappa kapuEu reminds mD of
tine days of Tom TIu0HH ue against
tbo spondthrft cuisines. Iu Ho Local
courts Those were happy times for
any who happened tU Hu idle about the
courts. for there wa. always plenty of
entertainment in watching thp silver
tongued orator battle with MagO0u
When all is said and done DO must De
admitted that both sides won notable
victories iu AN the cases. tHe uon-com-
hattant spendThrift boinL usually r0ut-
ed with heavy Joss Jnpuidod as 1
am iu the mazos of tH. law. perhaps
] have NO right To am opinion on the
subject of our sppudtbrft laws, but
nevertheless hold that there is some
thing very radically wrong with "a
system under which the estate of
spendthrilt pays the attorneys for both
sides.-as has happened iu some OF
our cascs,-iu litigation over whether
he shall stay under guardianship or
not No spendthrift not under guar
diauship could waste his or her estate
much more absurdIy than our courts
have thus compelled some to waste &c.
= . =
During the week q lot of politics has
been talked. of the kind that the papers
don't like To- publish, for it, deals with
the notion of an anti-haole campaign
which would be very unpleasant As "a
matter of fact. the attitude of the
members of the Republican executive
committee who have caused this week s
strange dOings by that body, is a part
of a movement which threatens to cul-
inmate i'm such a campaign. Some Of
my Hawaiian friends tell me that there
is no politics i'm the sudden boom in
Hawaiian secret societies, and others
tell me that the societies are deep
in politics and will be manipulated
TO keep whites out of office.
It is no use talking TO men of the
Motley frame Of mind. but it seems
to me that the correct figures show a
tremendous prepOnderence of Hawai-
ians in the public jobs at present. Per-
r. haps the anti-haole campaign will not
really develop in any considerable
strength, any more than the late Will
cox or the late Kaulia was able to
70 develop it, but if it does, and if it sue
/, ceeds, the result will be pretty tough
on the Hawaiians. 1t might not be
difficult to get through Congress an
act making knowledge of English one
: of the qualifications for voting in Ha-
L wall, and If the professional politicians
). who are behind the anti-haole cam
u paign business get far enough in their
L scheme. such a move would be g
r natural retaliation.
l. 1t is a fact which Hawaiaus ough
to consider, that the leaders in the
?. anti-haole scheme are nearly if not al
De-. of them men who are sore. and wan
q something. The ink was not dry OF
u the Organic Act giving Hawaiians free
suffrage before grafters, white and Ha
= waiian, begans to see nice poltica
chances in the idea of combining tn,
y Hawaiian vote" / would like tC
% know what really solid, valuable civil
II idea any of those working up the cam
p paign now have to offer to really
81 intelligent voters? Is it graft again?
y
e John Christian was the other da!
J., arrested on a charge of stealing beer
~ What's in a name?
/
The morning paper refers to a NOV
-, ing-picture disqualification of TIT
20 Divinity, as a white-bearded man, a
- sacriligeOus audacity. Any more S,
= than stained-glass window representa-
tions?
"a In various districts Of the island
there are signs that Hawaiian politi
!, clans are attempting to align Ha
n waiian voters in a boom of the ant
Ia haOle politics which We're most cor
A. spicuous in the days of Wilcox an
Kaulia. Taking as their excuse som
a official changes which are easily show
~ to have been justified by the fact
they are attempting to make the rae
line more than ever an issue in pol
,, tics,-in other words, as Motley ha
~ more than once openly put ito II
~ duce the Hawaiian voters to stand tC
-, gether on a platform of voting Onl
" for Hawaians for office. In the ligh
20 of the fact that a census of office
~ holders in the Territory shows an over
"a wheming majority Of Hawaiians, tn
. unjustness of the policy is as lagrar
-, as Is its dangerousness to Hawaiian'
~ Suppose for the moment that it weT
90 really a policy of the whites to kee
80 Hawaiians from the public offices, wha
vast change a governor could max
;, in a few hours in all the department
- Of the Territorial government!
n The Hon. Adm b. Capron, of Rhod
n Island, ought to be a member Of tn
81, next Congressional party to visit Hf
nd wall. He thinks we are right undo