The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1911-10-21
Honolulu
Newsletter
DOingS at the CapitOl--- Straight Talk
TO Hawaiians.
(By Manuel de Coste }

l have profound respect for Mr..
Swanzy. Like others in the COM
munity | am pleased to accept his
opinions on matters relating to the
advancement of business in the isl
ands, but not to consider his the
final words in a discussion involving
the expenditure of much fine gold
on the physical development of GER
tain sections of Oahu, ther efore take
issue with him when he proclaims
in public meeting the fact that he
objects to persons who do not know
how to build good roads criticising
those who do. | cannot believe that
the constitution nor the magma char
ta closes the lips and makes dunn
mics of all men outside radius of
which Mr.. Swanzy may be said to
be the center. From the remarks
of this distinguished merchant take
it he is willing for the Belt Road
Commission to spend ten times six
teen thousand dollars a mile for a
road that leads to that part of Oahu
in which he has country residence.
| do not suppose there is a lot owner
on the line of the eighty thousand
dollar boulevard who would peep an
objection to its construction but the
poor devils over here, where good
streets are of greater necessity, do
peep and are peeved because they
are told they not: do know what they
talk Of. 1t is presumed Mr.. Swan
zy does, but refuse to believe when
Mr.. Swanzy dies knowledge will de-
part with him; there are others who
have read and learned that majority
sometimes has an inning. Refer
ence is made to his oversight of the
criticism in the newspapers of an
expensively built road over the
| Pail. In way the Advertiser is
wrong when it ventures the asser-
ton that Mr.. Swanzy failed to read
| it in the "Thunderer. From what
| gather he would not look for it in
the Times any moro than he would
in the Freeman's Journal or the
Boston Pilot. Mr.. Swanzy is a son
of Erin. l am told, and probably
banks on the utterances of his home
paper, whatever it may be. | have
heard it said he is Briton, as ap-
piled to men who came from Eng
land, but [ think it is mistake and
I that in respect to his dialect he is a
creature of his surroundings. But
he is good citizen, whether he
, wears the green or the red; the Iose
9 or the shamrock, and he would be
just as valuable to the community il
q he were not so exclusive, not 50 higl
, and mighty and if he did not show
an inclination to remain in his hole
, during the discussion of public mat
ters except on occasions when hi'
personal comfort is at stake Swan
zy is not a mixer. He apparently
, looks for benefits where the rich arC
the ones to pull down the plums. L
will be mainly the owners of fire,
; and mortgaged benzine wagons whC
v will enjoy the boulevard. God hell
II the poor Palolo farmers.
: If had remained another weel
! on Kauai | would have been mad
l. a stronger antagonist of those VIII,
IS have the undertaking of belt roaC
s on Oahu. Whether Moragne is
/. more economical, a more considerat
), or a better engineer than is Gere, o
Vt whether he is combination of al
of these, | am too much of movie
is to say, but the comment | woul,
y make on the roads on Kauai, con
n structed at about half the cost G
II the one the commissioners here hav
t.. just contracted for would put all bu
II Mayor Fern, who voted against tn
(Cnniinned n,, t,nore \