The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12


pie holdings and rights of way. tho
enjoyment OF which Il now has 10 tho
end Of its lease, and the land Of Pa.
hala, by leasing Il again, without pro.
tccting honest eads thereon in tho use
Of water required for fluming cane.
then he is impossible
Against the Governor.
| These two matters alone are sniff
cient upon which to challenge his
availability for another term of Office
rs Governor No excuse has been Of
fercd, rs far as is known, for Pahala
and for Waiakea, the 1imsy one that
the board of health found the camps
and stables in Waiakea insnntary, and
to make them sanitary the plantations
wanted TO get the fee simple of the
camps and stable sites, carrying, as il
would of necessity, the right of way
thereto, including railway right of
way.
1t was the duty of the corporation
TO keep their camps sanitary anyhow.
They have made, and are making, very
large profits out of the investment and
have seven years right of occupation
yet to come under their lease And
there was no obligation whatever cast
upon the Governor to place the land of
Waiakea in such condition that it
would come back into the hands of the
government handicapped with the fee
simple holdings and rights of way scat
tered all over the property. Aside from
the crying necessity of giving the home
! steaders some show, and simply as
matter of cold .blooded business, the
] Governor never would have treated his
| own property in that way.
Roasts the Press.
The answer, in Hawaii, to my protest
| against the Governor reappointment
has been n torrent of almost agage
abuse by the plantation class of the
native Hawaiians MS race, although
| the issue raised by my protest cen
tered exclusively on an economic ques-
ton pure and simple, which was of
! equal If not greater interests to other
races than to the native Hawaiian.
The Hawaiians, through the planta-
tion press, were notified that, if they
attempted to resist the leadership of
responsible white population-m meaning
thereby the plantation interests-the
time had come to set them aside and
put them where they belonged. This
outburst never was endorsed by the
white citizens at large; in fact, was
very greatly condemned in public and
in private as unjust in itself and I'M
called for in an issue over the admin
istration of the public lands, involving,
as it did, neither directly nor indirectly
any racial issue, between Hawaians
and Others. But, inasmuch as such talk
and such views may have been present
Lad NNrs,. tal, ~. 4.
! support of the Governors reappoint-
ment, I desire to state that the history
of Hawaii will show that, since the ad-
vent of American missionaries, the Ha-
waiian has, in the main and is today
following the leadership of the response
BILE and leading element amongst the
white citizens, and to such n degree
and to such an unquestioning extent,
that the present plight of Hawaii, con.
fronted by an overwhelming influx of
Asiatics, is due to too much following
on the part of the Hawaiians. All the
political sins of Hawaiians combined
together from the day Captain Cook
discovered the Islands to date, have
worked incomparably less mischief than
has resulted from too blind following
of the plantation interests of Hawaii
Hawaiians had been educated to trust
and follow.
Some Old History.
In the seventies and eighties, in order
to get cheap labor, these business inter
ests poured into Hawaii between twenty
five and thirty thousand male Chinese,
accompanied by only few hundred
women, resulting in the farreaching and
deep-seated evil consequences to the
social life of Hawaii that would follow
in any community. Again the planta-
tions wanted Asiatics, and again Ha-
waiians yielded to their wishes; with
the results and consequences now patent
to all; and the less said in discussing
the present condition of Hawaii in
racial abuse of the Hawaiians, the bet
ter for all concerned.
/ have raised no such issues, but
simply an economic one where / am
receiving the heartfelt support and
|. sympathy, though not openly ex-
pressed, of large numbers of white
citizens of the Territory of Hawaii,
who today are wishing me Godspeed
, in my efforts to secure some readiust-
mcnt Of conditions which may be used
to counterbalance the Asiatic popula-
ton, and in that spirit renew, without
personal i'll will, but upon grounds of
sound public policy my protest against
the reappointment of Governor Frear,
charging that the federal executive will
be taking upon itself grave and far
reaching responsibilities in assuming to
! allow Hawaii to drift along for the
next four years as she has in the past.
T Respectfully submitted,
9 w. A. KINNEY,
: Attorney for ]. K. Kalanianaole,.