Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-09-17
REPUBLICAN, TERRITORIAL PLATFORM AS SUBMITTED
FISHERIES.

FISHERIES.
With hundreds OF miles of coast
line, We recognize that the aquatic
resources of the Territory must ever
form one of the valuable assets of all
the people. We therefore urge that
steps be taken by the Legislature of
the Territory to secure the coopera-
ton of the Federal government that
a fish cultural and biologic station
similar to those now in operation on
the mainland may speedily be estab-
lished on the Island of Oahu to form
an experimental station for the study,
| conservation and decrease of this Inn
tportant possession OF the Territory,
to the end that the sea food which
is a daily article of diet of all the
people may be increased in quantity,
improved in quality and cheapened in
price. -.r
LIQUOR LAW.
The experience of the past two
years has demonstrated {hat under all
the circumstances the present liquor
law is admirably adapted to conditions
within the Territory. We pledge our
representatives in the legislature to
resist any attempt to alter that law in
any respect.
EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE.
We endorse the enactment of laws
by which the adjustment of differences
between employers and employees shall
be submitted to arbitration, to the
end that not only shall capital re-
ceiVe proper protection, but that the
rights of employees to fair and just
treatment may not be hampied upon
We endorse the enactment of COM
prehensive and generous workmens
compensation laws in place of the
present wasteful and unjust system OF
employers liability.
THE TARIFF.
The two great political parties
of the nation are once more at
issue on the subject of the tariff, and
in the present campaign that issue is
clearly defined. The Republican party
stands for protection to American In
oustries, while the Democratic party
denounces the protective idea, and
Ifonounces for tariff for revenue only,
which is the equivalent of free trade.
In no place within the United States
can be found better evidences of the
beneficent results of the protective
tariff than in the Territory of Hawaii.
We reiterate our firm support of that
policy, and confidently predict that the
people of the Territory will by an over
whelming Republican victory stamp
with disapproval the destructive
policy of the Democratic party.
A Democratic House of Representa-
tives has but recently endeayored to
folst upon the country law removing
all duties on raw sugar for the pur-
pose of enriching the refiners of sugar
at the expense of the producers. The
same party has, in its national plat
form, reaffirmed the doctrine which ITS
representatives IN Congress declared
demanded free sugar, and its leaders
have openly asserted, that, should the
party secure control of the nation, all
i dntiess on raw sugar would be at once
removed. The course of the Demo
cratic party in this respect is calcul-
ated to destroy one of the chief indus
tries OF Hawaii, and we unhesitatingIy
and unqualifiedly denounce it.
A Democratic victory in the Terri
tory would be construed by the adyo-
Gates of free sugar as an approval by
the people of the Territory of that
doctrine. We call upon every voter of
the Territory, genuinely interested in
Jour welfare, to register his protest and
assist In placing the Territory on rec
ord in no unmistakable terms.
/ The coffee industry of this Terri
tory should be encouraged along with
other diversified industries, and to
this end we believe in advocating leg
islation providing protective tariff
on coffee.
CONCLUSION.
The present prosperous condition of
the Territory of Hawai-, Is due largely
to the policies carried out by the Re
/ publican party, national and local.
! Every law which had aided us IN our
progress has been enacted by the Re
publican party. Based on the PROPOSE
ton that the Territory is an asset and
|Eot a liability, the Republican party
has formulated and is carrying into
jexecution constructive plans by which
advantage shall be taken of the great
commercial and the strategic import
ance of the Islands. Under Republic
can rule internal improvements, of mo-
mentous Importance have been plan
med and are rapidly being perfected.
Under these conditions, and standing
of the foregoing declaration of princi-
lles, and our record, we appeal to the
electorate of the Territory of Hawaii
and urge the support of our principles
and candidates at the polls. We are
confident that under the leadership of
the candidates who will be named
within the Territory of Hawaii, our
appeal will not be in vain; that our
party viii, acting In line with the prin-
tciples here enunciated, so conduct the
public affairs of the Territory as to
Imeet with the hearty approval of the
people whose servant il is, and that