The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-18

Samuel Williams, freight clerk of
the Tenyo Maru, has been detached
from the liner and win take a position
in the company's office in this city.
Assistant Freight Clerk Reid has been
promoted to take his place, and Frank
Caverly has been appointed assistant
freight clerk.-Call.
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my money and my time and possibly
my life's blood to this work. / told
him that i was in earnest and would
carry out every promise ] had made.
Then, said Mr.. Heney, Il would be
n poor citizen, indeed, if / were to
place any price upon my services in
this work. j love San Francisco ms
much as you do, Mr.. Spreckels. i will
go into this prosecution without price
and without pay From that day ON
Mr. Heney has never received one cent,
and has been vilifed, maligned and at
tackled. That is the example he has
set me, and / am determined to follow
it and carry on TINS work to its logical
conclusion
A Life's Work.
| Mr.. Spreckels then outlined what he
proposed to dedicate his life Is efforts
| to, the organization of national league
for the education Of the people Of the
United States along the lines Of com
mon honesty. He himself had disposed
of every share of public service cor
poration stock he owned and never in
tended to own another, in order that
no one would be able to accuse him
of Interior motives in his work. What
had happened in San Francisco with
the grafters and in New York, where
the footing had been carried on to such
an extent that the tax rate was two
per cent. on full valuations confisca-
tory rate-would happen everywhere
where the people did not exercise
constant vigilance. He urged the peo-
| pie to use the same common sense in
selecting their public officials as they
did in selecting employees for their bust
nesses, where they looked into mhp5s
fitness and character and then watched
him after he had been selected.
"Our public officials are seldom
: selected with any view as to their char
acter. They get the endorsement Of
political party and the voter has lit
4 tie to say in the choice and he is often
> confronted with a choice between two
evils, a Republican and Democrat and
one possibly as bad as the other. ',on.
fWc must get back to the old prin-
: ciples of honesty he continued, ffand
not only for the other fellow. Prae-
tise it on yourself; analyze your bust
ness; stop cutting corners; cut out this
business of giving a commission to n
man just because he has the giving out
of contracts; set an example of honesty
to the man of Ignorance and build up
free country"
"The only reason why socialism is
on the increase in the United States"
he said further on in his address, "is
because the socialist leaders need only
get upon the platform and state what
is the absolute truth, that the govern.
ment of this country is no longer rep.
resentative, that the courts no longer
are impartial between the man with
money and the man of poverty. The
2. people realize this and grasp the prin.
eiples of socialism in the hope of get
ting something, anything better. Can
! poor man buy the control of a news
paper, or pay $4,000 for a juryman, as
was done in San Franeiscof'
The speaker concluded his address by
expressing regret that the Commercial
T. Club had placed tabu on political dis
eussions. ~ feel that it is great pity
: and great shame that you do not
deliberately go into politics and pro-
mote political discussions in your club
You should do it. There is no disgrace
I in taking part in the government of
your own affairs, there is no disgrace in
l doing your part in the business of yonI
government