The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12
JAPANESE VOTE SCARE AND
COMMISSION DANGER NOW
BLAMED UPOO THE GOVERNOR


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the time and all of the time of por.
ton of said membership.
The commission government that is
talked of for Hawaii is one Of necessity
with so little representation and so
/ far removed from the center of gov.
eminent, that the rule of the local
commissioners win, for all practical
purposes, be well.nigh absolute.
! In twelve years after annexation,
commission government is already be.
ing discussed as something bound to
come, condition which would have
( blocked annexation at once, if then
suggested; for the native Hawaiian
! distrusted annexation and feared, for
himself and his posterity, the results
of that movement; and it was finally
! the belief that, after all by annexation
Hawaii and Hawaiians would secure
for all time, the blessings of self-gov.
eminent in their own affairs that pre-.
vented any outbreak blocking and pre-.
venting the offer of annexation on the
part of the Hawaiian government.
Says Executive to Blame.
If commission government for Ha.
waii becomes necessary by reason of
the development of an Asiatic popula-
ton, where will the fault lief Pri-
marily and chiefly at the door of the
executive branch of the federal gov.
eminent, which ever since annexation
has held and now holds in its hands
| the appointment and removal at will
of the Governor and leading officials
of Hawaii who in turn hold the heart
/ strings of Hawaii's civil life in their
! hands.
| Japanese Increase.
Since annexation the Japanese pop.
ulation has increased by 1S,54S and
| the Governors appointed over Hawaii
have been from among the plantation
element and so closely related with
these interests that the results of their
administrations were foreshadowed at
once they were appointed.
The fact that only handful of ma
tive born japanese have yet seen fit
to exercise their right to vote, and
that large numbers of native born Jap.
anese and Chinese citizens haze gone
during their minority to Japan, has lit
tie bearing on the main issue: to wit,
the issue raised by the fact that an
overwhelming population of native
born Asiatics will in few more years
be available in Hawaii and from Ja-
pan to outvote at will all other cleo
tors combined whenever they see fit
to do so, either of their own motion
by the instigation of others, or by rea.
son of some agitation or collision of
interests that invites them to use the
power of their vote.
Under these conditions we find the
Governor complacently announcing in
his optimistic annual report of 1911
that during the preceding year ia
homesteads were taken up, and that,
for the six years preceding June 80,
1911, 2230 had been taken up,
among which, however, were mum.
Der of fake and fraudulent home
steads. Really the situation presents
the spectacle of the ship of state of
Hawaii in a swapping condition and
with worse weather ahead, in charge
of a Governor complacently bailing
her out with teaspoon, and the fed
eral executive adjured not to dis.
turb the operation, but to see to it
that this process of rescue be contin.
ued for another four years.
For Different Administration.
Congress, in every act concerning
Hawaii, has consistently promoted the
idea of the development Of Hawaii
along traditional lines as a self-gov,
erning commonwealth, and the
trouble now is not so much that We
need more laws, but an entirely higher
and different conception of the admin
istration of existing laws.
The matter of securing immigrants
for Hawaii (upon which movement the
planters rely absolutely for laborers)
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the federal executive, acting through
the territorial Governor, has right t.
require from the trustee of the plant
ers' association a complete continuing
program of treatment of immigrants
: satisfactory to the government, before
il will allow these people to be invited
| and aided TO come to Hawaii. Such {
program would compel for people il
the Territory as well as those coming
in readjustment of rates paid for can,
, raised by the settlers now very one
sided, and of transportation, market
ing and any other matters, to which
. arrangement the territorial govern
! ment can and should make itself
permanent party; for one grea
, trouble in Hawaii has been that Their
i is no middle class TO hold to right
once conceded and to make it imprac
i ticable to withdraw or change them
Americans Not Encouraged.
Repeatedly, since annexation, Amer
= lean citizens from the mainland hav
gone, at their own expense and OF
, their own motion, to Hawaii, with tn
: intention of engaging in industrial
pursuits; but fiding that their pros
perity would depend largely upon TIN
! goodwill of those in charge of adjac
; emf plantations, in fact to such an ex
tent that they would not feel free t,
speak their minds or to assert thei
personal independence in a way un
satisfactory to dominant local in
fiuences, and that they might injur,
their business and social prospects BY
SO doing, have returned at once to tn,
mainland, with the conviction that Ha
wall was no place for poor man
Some have stayed and taken up home
steads and kept them long enough t.
obtain patents, and then sold out t.
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