The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-09-11
THE DEMOCRATIC
PLATFORM
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against itself can not stand. Hawaii
can not be half American and half ORR
entail. 1t will either be all American
or all Oriental. In saying this we
make no appeal to race hatred or race
prejudice; we simply point out the
workings of economic law.
Nor are these tendencies now mani
fest for the first time. They have
been seen before and warned against,
and by none in more uncertain tones
than by some of our foremost citizens
who have in the past acted with the
party. But it is because
the Republican party in this Territory
is dominated and controlled by inter
ests that have created these very con-
ditions, and stand immutably in the
way of efforts to change them, that
the tendencies we have pointed out
continue. We therefore appeal to the
great body of the electorate, whose in
terests coincide with what is best for
the Territory at large, to join with
us in giving such an expression of opin-
ion at the polls next November as can
not be further ignored.
The Public Lands.
We call attention to the public
lands of the Territory and the policy
pursued in regard to them in the past.
Capable of being made most potent
agency for the Americanization of the
Territory they have been administer
ed in such way as to become means
for further overwhelming Hawaii and
preventing the creation of an indie
pendent electorate-free men on free
soil We repeat and endorse the de-
mand in the Democratic National Plat
form adopted at Denver, as follows:
'We favor the application of the
principles of the land laws of the Unit
ed States to our newly acquired ter
ritory, Hawaii, to the end that the
public lands of that Territory may be
held and utilized for the benefit of
bona fide homesteaders, '-as Offering
a practical method of making of the
public lands means of industrial
Acknowledgement, of political stability
and of true Americanization for these
islands.
Dedicated to Citizenship.
We approve of and ratify the me
mortal presented to Honorable Jas. r
Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, dur
ing his recent visit, on behalf of tn,
Democratic party, wherein it was pro
posed to dedicate the remaining por
tions of the public lands of the Terri
tory forever to homesteads and citi
zenship
In consonance with these views w,
demand the immediate repeal of tn,
act approved April ., 1908, (knowi
as the Kuhio billy extending the tern
for leases of agricultural public land
from five to fifteen years.
Republican Hypocrisy.
We denounce the platform utter
ences of the Territorial Republican OF
ganization relative to capital and Ia
Dor, trusts, monopolies and combina
tions of capital, and amendment o
the Organic Act in relation to publ
lands as mere platitudes opposed t
the policy of the party leaders au
| calculated to deceive the electors. TIL
constant reiteration of these so-calle
| principles by said party, in its plat
forms, both National and local, cor
sidered in connection with their cor
slant and repeated failure to "mak
good' when the opportunity present
itself, can only subject the Republica
party and its representatives to tn
scorn and disbelief of all honest ele,
tors. The Democratic platform of 100
severely denounced and arraigned tn
Republican party for platform ute
ances directly opposed to party polio
and calculated to deceive the elector
| A
that time, we point to the failure {
the Republican majority to "maB
good" the following platform declari
tions:
LIST. Amendment of Organic A,
permitting local legislation on lar
matters.
End. Failure to push the "Refur
! Bill" in Congress.
Bird. Legislative investigation
private wharves and wharfage due
together with action looking to go
eminent ownership of such wharves.
/ 4th. Failure to advance local sci
government by writing into the Cou
ty Act, the pledges of the platforl
9Th. Proposing no measure to p
into effect their platform declarati
r relative to waterworks througho
, the Territory.
a Failure to Reapportion.
8 We again call attention to the ia
ure of the Republican Legislature
make reapportionment of Terri
rial senator's and representatives,
a required by Chapter 2, Section 55
!. the Organic Act.
b Unscientific Taxation.
t We believe the system of taxation
a vogue in this Territory is increasing
iniquitous and burdensome, unscienti
. and expensive in its application. '
! again declare for limiting the SQUIRE
of taxaten to land values, and gra