The Hawaiian star., 1909-11-11

ents from the Lowell, Mass, textile
school.
SUCCESS OF THE CONFERENCE.
The platform follows:
''Twenty-seven years have passed
since the first Lake Mohonk Indian
conference was assembled. Then it
was the policy of the nation to push
the Indians aside when they were an
impediment to national progress;
now it is the national policy to incor-
porate the Indians in the nation and
enable them to contribute to the ma
tional progress. The most important
of the reforms advocated by the con-
ference have been accepted by the ma
tion-speciflcally, the abolition of the
reservation system, the establishment
of federal public school system for
the education of the Indians and the
application to the Indian service of the
civil service rules.
This change in the nations concep-
tion of the Indian problem and it's true
solution has been accompanied by a
great improvement in the personnel of
the Indian service and in public senti-
ment upon the Indian question. Mean
while new obligations have been laid
upon the nation toward other peoples
who are not citizens of the United
States but are subject to ITS jurisdiction
and authority. We take this occasion
to reaffirm certain fundamental princi-
pies which the nations failures and
successes in the Indian service has il
lustrated and enforced, and which are
equally applicable to these new wards
of the nation. For the duty of the
American people to establish by force
examples liberty and justice is the
same toward all it's non-citizen sub
jects whether these subjects be the
young men not yet grown to full citi-
zenship or the aborigines under our
sovereignty or the newly landed immi-
grants unfamiliar with the nature and
operation of free institutions or the
negroes recently freed from slavery
or the inhabitants of our insular pos
sessions with no historic preparation
for democracy-that is, the reign OF
the people The ultimate end of all
just government is self-government.
DUTY OF THE NATION.
Keeping this end ever in mind it is
. the duty of the nation to give to all un'
der its authority adequate protection
, Of person and property, whether per-
sonal or cummunal; government by law
not by the will of a personal ruler
military or civil; courts of law acces'
sible to the poorest and humblest pro
> cesses Of law prompt, economical anC
: equal in ehir operation; taxes ne
heavier than the expenses Of their gov
, ernment, economically administered
) require, sanitary provisions for thu
prevention Of preventable diseases fol
, the establishment Of hygienic condi
I tions; schools which shall furnish in
I dustrial and moral as well as academi,
instruction; and, through the volun
: tary efforts of the churches, the inspir
' alton of religion founded, not on tn,
3 fear, but on the love Of God.
I This means for the North Ameri
Q can Indian abolition of the tribal rela
: tion, in which the fundamental right
of the individual are denied; the sub
t stitution of personal ror tribal prop
r erty, the recognition of the Indian
:, right to travel freely and peaceably an
: to buy and sell in the open market, an
t his ultimate admission to America
citizenship. 1t means for the Filipin
# opening to him the American market
5, it has been opened to the Hawaiian an
) the Porto Rican. It means that tn
i relationship between the United State