Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-06-14
ORGANIC ACT DEBATE
Continued from Page ~


|it It's yearly revenues. Last year ST.
400. 600 of their revenues came, ~ to |,
our Treasury. and we paid the ex-
penses of their government, amount
int to about 100000. For one, l
am unwilling to be suspicious. |
am not ready to join with the gem
tleman from Minnesota in his appre-
hension.
The effort he Is making to deprive !
the people of Hawaii of the privileges
and the rights which the other peo-
pie of this Nation enjoy is unfair to
himself and unjust to them. APP
plause.l am not willing to coneede
that imaginary frailties of our gov
eminent officials should operate to
their disadvantage. He does not sug-
gest that official weaknesses are ike
| ly to be found In the officials of lia-
wall. II Americans invested win
authority should become too extrava-
CANT, remind him now that II
should be continued Member OF this
body | will help to put the brakes on.
But | will not be suspicious II al
1yance. do not know whetherN gov'
ernmcutal assistance is necessary 10
dig their wells or measure their
Istreams, to level their mountains ana
mend their roads, but In justihca-
) ton to ourselves, my friends, 40
know we ought to treat these people
, right [applausel, not to excite their
mistrust or that of our own. What
? they actually need let us give them'
, There has been no addition to our
| Territory that was SO greatly wei
! coined as that OF Hawaii; there mas
J.. lbeen no acquisition 80 valuable TO
us as Hawaii.
II care not II II were only a desert
v ,pot untitled for the habitation OF
. man or beast, II has offered TO us
e the opportunity of necessary protec-
/ lion upon our western coast. II Is
e land that has been looked for by
every power OF the earth. 1t Is one
MI that was courted and coveted by every
+ important power OF the earth, and In
n the event OF general conflict every
i'll armed force in the world would hgh'
lfor. because 1t holds the key to the
i, military position in the Pacific ocean
I'll IL has given us this advantage over
aiall others-it preferred our company
. beyond that OF all others. II 1t needs
n government aid In the way OF inter
70 nal Improvement. we can regulate
=, the appropriations by limitation OF
!. other necessary methods. II our GOV
~ eminent officials become too extraVa
\ CANT In the administration OF the al
, fairs of Hawaii. | want now to re
, neat the promise | made, to assist th'
!, gentleman from Minnesota and thu
10 gentlema from New York to appl,
a. he brakes and apply them tightly
Mr.. Mondell. Mr. Chairman. Thu
!, | Is not a question of sentiment, as thu
!. gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr.
Butlerl seems to think. II Is no
~ even a question of how much OF TIL
v federal appropriations Hawaii >ough
o have. II is simply a question o
good governmental methods. Our ap
preparations ought to be apportlon
ed as far as possible by Congress
md not by the department The!
ought to be segregated, SO far as 1t !
~ possible to do so, by Congress, and
w n my opinion, Hawaii and Alaska
- which. is in the same category will
eventually receive much more consid
grafton, much larger expenditures o
federal moneys, much larger fedora
appropriations, II Congress shall pro
/, vide specifically for their wants thai
W II the provision which the commit
:. - tee proposes is enacted into law.
ITO be Continued.)