The Hawaiian gazette., 1911-05-23


lifa.ion sleia h,tla.s tss 600 Na. ~.
IN iof Ne particular Mahhta sIse apftl.
hcd m thc eohimei. one aMa aioi,, In
favor Of those who b. their totst tar
pfovai) made possible that pafiiculaf
Mnhuka site, and no extended Mahuha
site.
What n tho "Businoar centori"
George W. Smith IN opening his
speech said that "thc posionice d tho
business center What does that meant
Does u moan that Il can not still DO
the business centcf and be- situate at or
near the Eva end Of Palace Sauarof
Does u mean that It must be fairly con.
vonient % all These points have al.
ready been discussed above.
We don Z depend on cnfriers' We
do not depend on postollico omployo car
riers, to any extent--bht wo do depend
on carriers IN the sense of messengers
and Office boys, and We will, and any
city must, more and more as tho city
grows. Any business man who don Z
depend on carriers and ism Z so busy
but that he can take the time to John
the daily reunion Of old pals at the
postoiliee, would surely have an extra
do him good. Mr.. Smith must have
taken one Of his degrees at coun-
try postonice
He speaks Of the "necessitiesn of
the case, in adverting to the removal
of the Fort street buildings. But TO
say this is necessary and that we must
destroy these buildings because neces-
sary, is TO beg the question. And a re-
spectacle number disagree with Mr..
Smith on this question of necessity.
''The people go to the customhouse. -
How many7 And whof
'In Portland the postof1ioe Is in the
center of the business part Of town.
This is by no means true. It is faced
on one side by hotel, on the other
by line of drug stores, music stores,
and clothing stores, on another by a
line of book stores, a small bank and
real estate offices, and Immediately on
the other by residences, a religious so.
ciety building az. w. @. A., as we re.
call) and the residential section of town.
The main banks and business houses
are several blocks downtown. And
now, just when, it is true, the business
portion of Portland is growing toward
the present pOstoffice, the government
has, nearly year ago, chosen site
for q new federal building several
blocks still further away from the bust
ness center. The speaker also dwelt on
the increase in property values in the
vicinity Of the Portland postofIlce.
Home Rule Smack.
"We want the civic center particu.
larry Hawaiian. This is an argu.
mentum ad hominem, which might be
expected Of the old Home Rule
party of ten years ago, but which would
not influence any Hawaiian who is
proud of being a federal citizen as well
as a territorial citizen-and who ism ~
"The federal building represents the
United States" Yes, but you and Mr..
Castle have been using the argument
of the ''people y the "people, -
meaning people of the United States
presumably-wi reference to this
building. Now, you want to set it off
the civic center map because it is not
''parti cularly Hawaiian. -
"This new thing has come up, don't
know whyl'' We leave you in the soli-
tude of your thoughts.
"I think it is a matter of senti-
ment. - So did the first speaker. There
are few who differ from you.
''The main point is that we come
together most of us are together
come together, and dismiss it" (the
petition for change). Coming together,
then, means, coming your way, as the
one juryman wanted the "eleven I'M
reasonable Ones'' to come his way.
"Let's forget all this petition. The
majority said, five years ago, we want
ed the Mahuka site. - But we are
talking about now, and here, and the
future.
"Let's drop it for the more impor-
tant subjects of health and greater Ho-
nolulu." A woman whose husband, a
raw recruit, was going off to the Span
ish War, said as the soldiers marched
TO the music proudly by, "Why, they're
all out of step but my Charley.'
The will of the people, which Kuhio
desires for his guidance, will be ex-
pressed, has already been expressed in
no uncertain way, and we shall be "to-
gether" as near as any community can
ever hope TO be together. And, we may
say, we will not permit any impractica-
BILE third issue of herring to be drawn
across the path, even though it has as n
Warwick Charlie Achi. We, the over !.
whelming majority of voters, have
made up our minds. We always felt in
clined to the Irwin site, but we needed
someone to take the trouble to do the
work of p1tting petition in our hands.
for signature. For this initiative, the
new federal building will be monu-
ment to Jack Atkinson, who is the
father of the civic center, as the Civic
Federation has professed to be-and
failed.
A MEMBER OF THE 100000 CLUB.
--S.%-S---