The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-06-27

holders and gives to the community
that has granted the rights to these
corporations security in the condi
lions of the corporation, gives the
pubic information as to who the stock
holders are. the amount of stock held
by them, what the assets and the liabil-
tiles are, what the profits are, whether
the corporation is doing wei, or doing
ill-al those facts are shown upon the
corporation returns of your Territory.
Now that is the right kind of publicity.
that is the publicity that we have been
trying for on the mainland and have
been very pleased to see how far you
have gone in that direction here.
1t has been on the question of taxa
ton that we have been moving on the
mainland, to arrive at a more general
system of organizing taxes for the
support of both State and Federal gov
eminent. The Republican party has
been standing for an equality in taxa
ton for preventing lodging of taxes
by the man who has great deal and
compelling the man or the corporation
who has much to pay his fair share
of the taxes of any community. Now
it has been held by some that these
actions OF President Roosevelt and
those with him have been attacks up
on property. and they have been held
by many Democrats and by many of
what have been called the extremists
in our own party as being simply an
attack upon the rich man or the great
corporation. Now that is not true.
Instead of it being an attack upon
the lawful corporation or the man it
has been making it possible for the
corporation that does wisely, or the
honest man. TO do better than ever be-
fore. because it has cleared away all
that has been corrupt and bad in the
Illegal and Illicit corporations. Cap
plause).
This Republican Administration has
always stood for the rights as well as
the duties of the common man., and
when / say the common man | mean
the average man. This administration
has been trying. both by law enacted
by Congress and by the enforcement of
law through the courts. TO make it
possible for the individual citizen to
have a greater opportunity to culti-
vata himself, TO raise his family in q
better condition. and to make more Of
his own individual opportunities. 1t
has been the keynote Of much that has
been done. namely, opening the door
of opportunity to the individual. doing
away with all question of special priv
ileges and special right, and saying TO
every man and woman, There stands
the open door: you may go into it and
go along the path just as far as you
are wiling" it has been creating Il
citizenship based upon the wiping out
of prejudice between race and race and
undertaking to say TO each individual,
whatever be the color of his skin, that
he shall have the same chance, the
same right as the man next him. If
you fail. as many win. then it is not
the fault of an unjust or tyrannical
operation Of law.
These, my fellow citizens, nave been
some of the main issues that have
been before the people of our country
during these past few years Much
has been done; long strides have been
taken but much more is to be done.
II this administration should now fail
to receive a vote of confidence; If you
should send from these islands here a
delegate in opposition to the policies
of the Republican administration. if
your votes here should indicate a Lack
of confidence in what has been done,
then I say there would be disaster 10
our country should such a vote exist
on the mainland as well.
Our Democratic friends have nothing
to offer that is better than that which
has been done by the Republican adj
It is true that their con-
vention has not yet been held. but we
know who their leader will be and we
know what promises he has made to
the people of this country in years /
gone by. Now what is there in the
record Of the Democratic party that
makes it wise for you or for me to .
trust to them to carry on the policies
that have been inaugurated during