The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-08
KINNEYS BRIEF
Continued from page one)

ency In the population Of Hawaii. the
chief asset and fundamentally in
which effort is the homesteadiEg OF
the public lands with desirable non
Asiatic citizen population, that acts Of
omission and commission i'm the dis
charge of his duties by the governor
which, under normal conditions of
population, might not raise any decid-
ed issue, though disproved. when
viewed in the light Of undisputed and
indisputable conditions of population
in Hawaii, become not only gray
derelictions of duty, but carry with
them the suggestion OF downright be
trayal of the Territory of Hawaii in
matters of vital importance to her
very existence"
On the same lay the attorney makes
this utterance:
Whatever agreeable things may be
said in favor of these young Asiatic
American citizens, either by the plan
tation element in Hawaii, particularly
the religious plantation element, which
is wholly responsible for this Asiatic
population and, of necessity, must rec
ommend and endorse them to save
their own faces, and Notwithstanding
the agreeable things that may be said
about these young Asiatics here on
n
in Hawaii fear that the feredal execu-
tive and Congress and the American
people themselves will never allow ex-
listing conditions in Hawaii to progress
to the point where the country at
large is confronted with the fact that
Asiatics have advanced not only to in
dustrial but political control of Ha-
wall as well, and the result will be
that, before any such conditions de-
velop, Hawaii will be deprived of her
charter and status as a territory, and
reduced to a commission government,
and $4,000 genuine American citizens
deprived of the vote and reduced to
plea that only in that way can Asiatic
political control be broken in Hawaii,
without committing any act of discrim-
ination that Japan can complain Of
In that day the majority of the citi-
zens of the territory believe that, not
withstanding the high opinion of the
ciotic &c on Ar,nnriooD oifi1on anton
tanned by the plantation element of
Hawaii, they will be found, in the
main, ranged up in favor of commits
sion government, animated by desire
to be relieved of the consequence of
Asiatic political control of Hawaii,
and that any appeal to them to test
their high appreciation of the Asiatic
native born citizen, the fruits of their
own handiwork, by continuing local
self-government under Asiatic control
will meet with any icy reception"
And further along Kuhio's attorney
says.
The personal phase of the issue
is an embarrassment to those protest
ing against his reappointment, for
his faults are largely those of the
class to which he belongs and the
environment that has surrounded him
from his youth up. While a very
young man he became chief justice OF
Hawaii and filled the position with
marked ability; and he and his
friends would unquestionably feel
that failure to receive reappuint-
ment under protest might readily he
accepted by the public at large as a
reflection upon his personal charac-
ter. He, however, has sought and is
seeking reappointment and naturally
there is nothing left to those who do
not propose to let Hawaii drift as she
is, without some protest but to di-
rect that protest against the one who
is at the helm and primarily respon-
sible, particularly when people have
waited without protest during his
bSl III VI OiiiSS hOplh6 iOl Cidh6S
thereafter without having to do any
thing about it.
IF Governor Frear, with a tide of
Asatic citizenship rising about his
ears, with the plantation interests
generally hostile to homesteads and
getting more dominant and aggressive
every year, and the homesteader him
self discouraged and demoralized, can
deliberately handicap the homestead
ing of two of the most promising great
public lands of the country, as he did
within the last six months, to-wit, the
land of Waiakea, by seeking to let
corporation gridiron it seven years
before it's lease was up, with fee sim
pie holdings and rights of way, the
enjoyment of which it NOW has to the
end of it's lease, and the land of Pa
hala, by leasing it again, without pro
tecting homesteads thereon in the use
of water required for fluming cane,