The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-11-10
MOHONk PLANS
FOR POSSESSIONS
Eventual Statehood or Eventual
independence Not Among
Things Promised.

MOHONK LAKE, October 22.-Ha-
wall was the closing theme of the Mo-
honk Lake conference on the Indian
and other dependent peoples tonight,
with Pres. A. F. Grifiths of Oahu Col
lege, Honolulu, and Albert F. Judd,
also of Honolulu, as the speakers. The
Rev. DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts of Washing
ton, superintendent of the information
al reform bureau, also spoke" The
platform adopted was as follows:
Twenty years have passed
since the first Mohonk Lake 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 incorpor-
ate the Indians in the Nation and en-
able them TO contribute to the nation.
al progress. Meanwhile 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.
cit is the duty of the Nation to
give to all under its authority ade-
quate protection of person and proper
ty, government by law, not by the
will of personal ruler, military or
civil; courts of law accessible to the
poorest and humblest; processes of law
prompt, economical and equal in their
operation; taxes no heavier than the
expenses of their government, econom-
ically administered, require; sanitary
provisions for the prevention Of pre-
ventable disease and the establishment
of hygienic conditions; schools which
shall furnish industrial and moral as
well as academic instruction.
"This means for the North Ameri
can Indian the abolition of the tribal
relation, the substitution of personal
for tribal property; the recognition of
the Indian S right to travel freely and
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open market, and his ultimate admis
sion to American citizenship. 1t means
for the Filipino, opening to him the
American market. as it has been open
ed to the Hawaiian and the Porto
Rican.
cit means for the inhabitants of
the insular possessions the maintenance
of local self government as a prepare
tion for future insular government
and the complete development of an
Anglo-Saxon system of courts and pro-
cedure. And it means for races of
Alaska, Porto Ricans, Hawaiians and
Filipinos, the vigorous prosecution and
condign punishment of all men en-
gagged in lawless endeavors to deprive
the people of their public or private
property, the establishment of eff
cient police regulations to safeguard
the people against the vices of civil
ization, adequate sanitary measures for
the protection of the peoples health,
an adequate system of education for
their mental and moral development
and the improvement of their indus
tries by providing industrial training,
developing their resources and promot-
ing easy access to profitable markets.
Finally, it means securing we'll paid
agents of unquestionable integrity and
proved capacity to represent the Nation
in its work for the betterment of these
peoples. 1t does not necessarily mean
either eventual Statehood or eventual
independence for our island possessions
1t may mean self-government under
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American sovereignty. But whatever
relationship may be established between
America and her insular possessions in