The Democrat. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1910-1910, 1910-10-28

domination or an Ollgarchy tnat mas
conducted public affairs exclusively for
its own benefit and without any regard
whatever for the good of the commu-
nifty as a whole Sugar is King and has
been king for years. But the sugar
dynasty is about at an end. It's day
has comets tale is about ended.
There is nothing inherently wrong
about sugar, nor is there any harm
whatever in the growing of sugar-cane
and the conversion of it's juice into the
finished product.
But for some inscrutable reason,
treachery, fraud, coercion, intimidation
and whole catalogue Of wrongs have
for many years been connected with SUI
gar Sugar and the slave trade were
intimately associated in the South be-
fore the war. Sugar and contract labor
had their beginnings in Hawaii about
the same time and contract labor in Ha-
waii was to all intents and purposes the
same as slavery in Hawaii in the early
days of the sugar industry.
Ed Towse, one of the candidates on
the Republican ticket, in speech at
Punahou park last Wednesday night
made the statement that the day he
landed on Hawaiian soil and walked up
Alakea street, he saw pasted on the dead
walls advertisements offering rewards
for the capture Of Chinese contract la
borers who had escaped from their mas
ters.
Those days, Towse said, are past =
but it is plainly evident that the sugar
interests, who are the masters of the
Republican party, are sorry that they
are past. If we still had slavery, or
contract labor, perhaps the immigra-
ton question would not be worrying the
Republican party in this present elec-
tion campaign.
But from the days of contract labor
peonage to the present Hawaii has been
dominated by the oligarchy that has al
ways been ready to sacrifice the inter-
ests of others to the attainment of it's
own selfish aims. 1t has pressed ahead
to it's goal regardless of the fact that
the wheels Of it's progress crushed the
poor man to the ground, forced the Ha-
waiian from his ancestral holdings, re-
dued him to serfdom or poverty and
ground freedom and the rights of man
into the dust!
This oligarchy is really the Republi-
can party Its members would just as
soon be Democrats or Socialists or Pro-
hibitionists or Anarchists if by so being
they could better attain their objects,
carry out their selfish schemes, make
more money .and acquire more power.
But the Republican party and the prin-
ciples of that party are admirably suit
ed to their ends, and so they are Repub-
licars.
These Special Interests that fatten
themselves at public expense that tram
pie upon the rights of the poor that
they may become richer, that contra
vene all the laws of God and man that
they may attain their own objects, are
the Republican party in Hawaii. They
defy the victims OF their SeltlShneSS to
vote the Democratic ticket, and expect
those victims to bow to their arrOgated
authority-to obey their behests and to
continue in power the Chords of the
Land"
For many years the Hawaiians have
been subjected to the power of the Spe-
cial Interests. Their lands have been
taken from them by lawless but legal
methods. They have contributed to the
wealth of their masters and have re-
ceived nothing for themselves. Their
complaints have been ignored, their
protests unheeded. The planters have
offered to pay them wage that no man
can live on decently, and then because
the Hawaiians refused to work for that