The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-12-30
DR.. SCUDDER REPLIES TO
CRITICISMS OF W. r CASTLE
Defends His Assertion That Native tiaWaanS
Have Been Given Franchise Without
Precautionary Restrictions.

hard to find in America more de
bauched electorate than here. In the
recent plebiscite the highest represent
atives of Hawaiian manhood, anxious TO
carry the Territory for prohibition be-
cause of their devotion to their race,
demanded of the temperance campaign
committee a Sum Of money that fairly
took their breath away. Ii was decided
then and there that this side of the
campaign should he run honestly.
doubt whether since annexation n
squarer contest has been conducted
here, II spelled defeat of course.
Cost of an Election.
Mr.. Herbert Parsons in recent Out.
look concluded that the legitimate ex-
pense of a campaign in New York
county should run from a minimum of
100000 to sos, 900. Take the larger
sum and double it for the two great
parties. This gives $4,000 honestly
to run a campaign in community of
345,6S7 voters-the total vote of New
York county in 190S-according to the
World Almanac, n per capita cost of
Sl20, or sixty cents for each party.
Last July 9773 votes were cast in our
pleBiscite, The liquor men. according
to n very conservative estimate spent
over $4,000 to carry il. Cut this esti-
mate down to between $4,000 and $40
600, sum which one of their number
has admitted was expended by them.
and that is more than 81 for every
voter participating, At the recent No
vember election il cost the two par
ties according to an uneontradicted pub
lished estimate, upwards of $4,000 to
finance the campaign This divided by
the total vote for delegate gives about
So per capita. At this rate an cleo.
tion in New York county would cost
the two leading parties more than one
million seven hundred thousand dol
lars.
Even the best Hawaiians have been
trained to regard an election ms an op,
portunity for graft, and congress by
refusing to make the franchise here an
incentive to character building, or, in
other words, by giving the franchise a
money value, instead of character
value, has debaIched the entire people
1t should be clearly borne in mind that
the fault for the state Of things here
is with congress, and not with the
white or the native in Hawaii.
SHduB0u Nl6Wb,
came to this Territory with tn,
stereotyped New Highlander prior
notion of the right of man to tn,
ballot, but the sad spectacle both o.
what every election and of what tn,
conduct of our government here teacl
/ has finally though slowly wrought {
cure. Mr.. Castle implies that 1 advo
Gated in my address that the Hawaiian
should be deprived of the franchise
There was not the slightest foundation
for such an inference in my remarks
The question of remedying a wront
y is very different from preventing il
Just what remedial measures are Gale,
for here demands consultation o
very wise and experienced civic doctors
Tuberculosis.
After dismissing the large question
of the drink evil in a sentence or two
Mr.. Castle remarked that tuberc1losi
was brought to the Islands by Chimes,
and japanese, In justice he SHOULD
have added ''and Americans Hawai-
was sought as sanatorium by not
few consumptives ofeou own race
Poor Asia has enough sins of her owl