The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-27
LAND MEMORIAL
To GARFIELD
Plan to Remedy Land Abuses
Presented to the
Secretary.

Those who week ago presented
Secretary Garfield with a protest
against the inadequacies of the Ha-
waiian public land laws, and against
the abuses and inequalities which have
grown up under them, yesterday pre-
sented a memorial of what they be-
lieved would correct or tend to correct
the abuses which are admitted. This
was presented in response to the Sec
retary's. suggestion for something con-
crete. constructive, and not destruc-
tive, in criticism.
The important and perhaps novel
feature of the proposals presented to
the Secretary is designed to prevent
the public lands from being monop-
olized, as President Roosevelt ex-
pressed it, into "a region of large esa
tates titled by cheap labor but as he
expressed the aim should be, into
healthy American community of men
who themselves till the farms they
own
The proposal is therefore that public
lands leased or given away in home
steads shall always retain their home-
stead quality, and as they are given
only to American citizens shall be held
and cultivated only by American citi-
zens.
by this means the memorial pro-
ceeds, 'all the remaining public lands
will be dedicated forever to American
labor, and cannot be used for the ex-
ploitation of cheap alien labor"
SsSSsSsSSSsSSSSSsS SSSSSsSSsSSsSssSSSSS
publican administration has done and
what the Republican administration in
the future promises for the people Of
this Territory. (Applause)
| have heard something about the
different parties in the Territory:
know the general division of the Re-
publicans and the Democrats. / have
heard of the third party of the Home
Rulers; I don't know quite what it
means. 1 say this, though, that if
there are men here who believe in
home rule, I am with them if we un-
derstand alike what home rule means
Home rule means self-rule, but my
friends. you have got to have a home
before you have anything to rule Cap
plause) And if you want a home in
which to exercise home rule, you can
only have it by keeping Uncle Sam
near by, (applause) and my opinion is
that you will keep him nearer to you
and you will have him fonder of you.
and you will be fonder of him, if you
leave the Republican party in control
of National affairs. (Applause)
The Republican party has always
been the party of the home; the Re-
publican party has believed that the
home was the foundation of American
citizenship. and, through its long his
tory, it has always stood for home
rule in its right sense. Its whole long
history has been the upbuilding of the
home idea and therefore I say to you
who may be members of the Home
Rule party here, if you wish to sue
ceed in your highest aspirations for
self government l believe that you will
find that those aspirations can best
be worked out if you will join the Re-
publican party and accept the republi-
can doctrine of the National Govern
ment.
The Territorial government is very
much more closely connected with Ma
tfonal affairs than one would at first
suppose. You here recognize that your
own prosperity. your own independ-
ence. is coupled directly with the sue
cess of any national administration.
You here in the Pacific. the halfway
place between the Orient and the
mainland, with all the problems that
are arising in international affairs,
with all the questions that are arising
in commercial life, with all the mat
ters affecting the transportation be-
tween the East and the West, you here
are the center, geographically. and will
year by year become more closely the
center politically of these problems
You are on the threshold Of your own
development. Your industries are
really infant industries as yet, one
of them a very large infant, grant
You, but nevertheless that too viii
grow by leaps and bounds in the COM
ing years. You are just developing
other agricultural products: you are
finding that this soil is capable of
diversified cultivation; you are finding
that manufacturers may come here:
you are finding that your great har-
bors viii hold the fleets of the world: |
YOU are finding that commercially your
Territory viii be one of the greatest
provided you maintain the proper |
10 the Federal govern |
ment and provided you make the most |
Of the opportunities that are now with |
in your grasp.
But for moment let me call your |
to what the Republican ad- |
has been doing these last /
years for the purpose of solving some |
Of these problems that you are so di- /
rectly interested in.
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