The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-10-21
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To LAST DITCH

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/ is in position to appoint whom he
may please.
No Use for Exchanges.
81 have seen no mention of an
amendment to that part Of the present
law relating to exchanges. l object
to the present method for it laws open
! an opportunity for graft. ANY cor
poration with a pull, that wants to
secure certain pieces of land. may ar
range to get them and it has happened
in the past that valuable holdings on
one island have been secured by an
exchange for less valuable lands on
another Ny idea is to do away with
this system and the doing away with
it should extend to the government.
[ can see no reason why, if the gov
eminent requires a certain piece of
land, it can not be condemned and
paid for after the price has been
fixed by appraisers. AS it is the sys-
tenn is q reckless and dangerous one
and should not be tolerated. Only a
couple of years ago we had a taste
of the government exchanging terri
torial lands with private individuals
anu WHIT the SuoeHA1A+
ed the lower courts in their action
can not believe that the system is right |
No Democrat Invited.
GAS a Democrat / can see that no |
member of our party has been taken |
into the confidence of Governor Frear |
to the extent that he has been caliei |
in to confer relative to any proposed |
changes in the Organic Act. | be- |
lieve it would have been better if po-
litical sides had been eliminated in this |
instance and friendly talk had, rathe~
than for the executive to take the bit |
in his teeth, call in a few Republicans,
and decide to have an extra session to
pass certain amendments which affect |
the whole Territory rather than the
members of any political organization.
Predicts Failure.
81 have No idea the amendments
viii be adopted by the legislature.
There are not sufficient changes to war
rant the adoption of any amendments
that would not materially change the
present laws
Up Against It Himself.
Mr. McCandless relates his experience
with the officials in connection with
his efforts to secure certain lands in
the public domain and the experience
would not warrant him supporting any
thing that would not entirely change
the law He tells of cases of claimed
in which he and others
suffered al the hands of the govern
ment and it is because of this, he says,
that he insists that the land law of the
Territory shall be nearer the American
principle than the present.
Nor will McCandless admit that
conditions in 1895, when the law was
passed warranted the strict measures
introduced or their enforcement. He
cannot understand why, when the gov
eminent decided to shut homesteader
out from his holding for certain alleged
reasons, because, it was averred that he
had not complied with the law in the
matter of improvements, as to value, it
was not willing to accept the affidavit
Of the homesteader that he had spent
four hundred and twenty dollars ON a
house rather than the word of an APP
praiser who happened to be builder.
who estimated that the work was not
worth more than three hundred and
ten dollars. And again he says it is
not right that a homesteader should be
deprived of an extension long enough
to make additions to the value of the
These instances he saws
he can recite in columns of four and
back them up with proof. And it is
on account of the system which war
rants it and gives it legal touch that
ne wants the people of Hawaii to have
A land law that will be as well for ,
The poor man as for the rich
Not for Himself.
~ can buy all of the land L want,
If it is for sale, so the matter does
not directly affect me. l have plenty
Of land and L buy all l can get that
believe is worth buying and if it
will bring me returns. All land is
not profitable to hold and [ do not
BUY a thing merely for the sake of
having it. There are men here, how
ever, who have not the means of Sc
curing homestead, or what they want,
and it is to aid those men that [ want
ba aha bo |