Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-02-06

ing. The dishonest man of swollen
riches whose wealth has been made in
ways which he desires to conceal
f, from the law, and the politician who
does not really believe in the right
of the people to rule and who prefers
to trust to corruption and class fav-
oritism rather than to honesty and
fair dealing in politics, are both nat
trally against u.s. Moreover, many
man who according to their lights.
are sincere and honest, are yet so
dominated by real or fancied self
interest as likewise to be against us.
The rich man who has made his
riches. not by law breaking, but by
the profits of special privileges which
the law should abolish. and who de-
MES the right of Government to re-
eulate in the public interest the busi4
ness use of corporate wealth: the
man who puts property rights above
human rights and denies the right Of
Government to interfere with his bust
that they shall work under safe and
healthy conditions and be compens-
ated for loss of life or limb due to
the dangers of their trade-these al
50, and the many like them, we must
expect to exert their power against
the Progressive movement.
There Is thus one group composed
of those who understand Progressive
Nationalism and heartily tapproye ii
because they believe it tends toward
the abolition of special privilege anG
of political corruption and toward the
development of genuine democracy;
and another group composed of those
who cordially fear and fight it be-
cause they wish to preserve specia
privilege and evade control There
is yet another group who are not in
the movement because they misun-
derstand it. One of the most fire
quently advanced allegations I aabodt
the movement made for the purpose
of discrediting it in the minds of good
men who do not know The facts, is
that it stands for 'over-centraliza-
ton" and for the destruction of States
rights Nothing could be further from
the truth. The advocates of Progress
siVe Nationalism will, | believe, agree
with what | said on this question at
Denver and Osawatomie last sum-
mer, ''The State must be made eff
cient for the work which concerns
only the people of the State, and the
Nation for that which concerns al
the people. There must remain no
neutral ground to serve as a refuge
for lawbreakers, and especially for /
laWbreakers of great wealth who can.
hire the vulpine legal cunning which
will teach them how to avoid both
1t is a misfortune when
The National Leg Stature fails to do
its duty in providing a National rem
edy, so that the only National acti-
witty is the purely negative activity
of the judiciary in fOrbidding the
State to exercise power in the prem |
ises. | do not ask for over-centrali-
cation; but / do ask that we work in
a spirit of broad and far-reaching
Nationalism when we work for what
concerns the people as u whole. We
are all Americans. Our common in
terests are as broad as the contin-
ent. The National Government be-
ongs TO the whole American people,
and where the whole American peo-
Die are interested, that interest can
BE guarded effectively onl yby the
National Government.
The advocates of a Progressive Ma
ionalism emphatically plead for eff
'ient State action as well as for eff
,ient National action All they de-
nand is that both State and National
lction be in the interest of, and not
gainst the interest of the people.
he most a fIininut un .cib1, Jovn1nn-