The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-11
HONEST LABOR ON.
SELLING HONOLULU

EDITOR START was with feel
ing of gratitude l read your leading
and pertinent article in last Saturdays
issue, selling out Honolulu" 1t is
Ia hopeful sign of the times that the
local press is awakening to a sense
of what is due to the American laborer,
especially the skilled mechanic and the
educated professionals The House
builder-the honest taxpayer and the
man who is ready if need be to give
| up his family and lay down his life
in defense of those principles incul-
Gated in the American school house
and in the maintenance of those gIo-
riOus theories. Pardon ME for omit
ting the word principles of that won
derful and altruistic document THE
! Declaration of Independence" that all
men are born equal is without doubt
a fundamental truth so far that they
I have the god given breath of life with
the germs of a mental capacity within
them to make a mark. The response
bility of which lies not only with them
selves, but with their environments
and the duties of those with whom
their lot is cast We pirate of the
! Brotherhood of Man and are surfeited
with phantasmagorical schemes of So
cialism, new thought and a thousand
and one "isms,' wasted effort of twist
ed brains, a hodge podge of unneces-
sary preaching, for we all haye-whe-
ther born of savage or civilized parents
"a conscience-pTostitut it how we
will--that teaches us our duties one to
another. Far be it from me to lay
down a line of conduct for anyone.
have plenty to do to keep the straight
line myself Nevertheless where the
wound gangrenes, there must come the
knife-hurt though it husband Sell
ing Honolulu" has awakened within me
sense of what is due to the loyeliest
fleet of island that lie in any ocean,
but where the almighty dollar looms
larger than a cartwheel and even our
brilliant sunshine cannot melt off the
, CRIME of avarice-where lies the blame
Labor or Capital! Read the news
papers and find the answer.
4 Americanize the islands, Yes-bu
how? Small farms! Yes. Mechanics
Homes! Yes, Intelligent, honest anC
} sober jurors! Yes. Live and let live!
, Sure. | care not whether they b,
q American, Japanese, Chinese or Rus
sian, but for humanities' sake, hav
j., them live according to American ideals
. clean homes, moral relations, goot
= schools, churches for the poor, fearles
9, newspapers and the working man will
> a bank account. Can it be done? Yes
n but not before capital recognizes tina
+. there is something more in life thai
/ the grabbing of the almighty dollar
Look around you, you men that boas
k of a glorious citizenship, without douh
h the finest in the world-if you live u
Y to it, You men so proud of wearin
II fraternal buttons on your coat lapel'
n You men that boast of the glOriou
J. Stars and Stripes,-but forget to do
your hat when you hear the nations
remember that in the hereafter it wi
. make no difference whether you wer
v worth one or ten milliOn-and it wi
be more to your glory that some wido
/ has enough left to keep her and he
n. children from charities aid, then
If million in defense of some WORTHLESS
decadent that the world would be be
ter without.
- If you have a dollars worth OF wor
to sell, for heavens sake be homes
+. not only to the laborer but yourse
" and pay dollar for it whether II
1t laborer be white, black or yellow.
D. this not fair? II not it would be u.s.
less for me to say more.
HONEST LABOR.
Honolulu, August 8, 1909.