The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1912-01-17
KALANIANAOLE
FILES CHARGES
AGAINST FREAR
Delegate From Hawaii Declares
That Governor Is a Drag
on the Islands
"AmeriCanizing" Prevented by
Executives Attitude, He
Says, in Complaint
Honesteading Checked in Inter.
est of Planters and Corpora
tiOns, Is Assertion

- ASHINGIOA, Jan. 1e---De-
M clarihg that his charges JUS
Wv xify an official investigation
into the administration of
Governor Frear aof Hawaii. Delegate
Kat8nianaole of Hawaii has filed for
msIs complaint with the secretary OF
the. interior. with special reference TO
the administration of the laws by Gov
ernor Frear concerning the public
lands of Hawaii.
The substance of Delegate Klanania-
naples complaint is the alleged failure
of Governor Frear to administer the
law in regard to the public lands in
manner calculated to bring about the
creation of a class Of citizen proprietors
holding modera e areas; the admins
tration of the public lands in the In
teresr of the sugar planting corpora
tions, and to the prejudice of large
numbers of .wouldhe homesteaders,
some of local and some of maintained
residence.
Monopoly Question
The complaint also .recites his failure
to assist in initiating in Hawaii the
typical American feature ofa citizenship
proprietorship and the consequent.
"Americanizing" of othe islands. and
the adoption of measures looking to-
the regulation or curbing of the local
transportation monopolies. in the in
ferest of &c agricultural development
along American lines.
Kalarfianole declares that Frear's
close ah1iation with the corporate in
terests OF the islands was induced and
exists largely through matrimonial and
social ties, whereby his administration
is conducted upon lines calculated to
favor and promote the still further con-
centration of land. wealth and power in
the. hands of few individuals operat-
ing in most instances, under corporate
firmsa
The entire history of Governor
Frear's administration" says the COM
plant, lis redolent of acts of commits
sion and of omission prejudicial to the
seeker after land for homestead pur-
poses, and partial to the powerful cor
porstions. -
Planters Said to Control
The planting interests. whereof
about two-fifths are controlled by
aliens, British and Germans, exercise
degree of control over all the concerns
of the Islands the like of which is en-
tirely unknown in America"
Kalanianaole> said that if four years
more Of Frear's administration pro-
duced no better results than the lastsI
four years Hawaii was likely to drift
into conditions where public degenera-
tion frem the status Of a territory to
one where sek-rule, even in purely To-
cal matters. was denied the people,
might become live national issue
I charge" says Kalanianaole, that
the domination of Hawaii by the sugar
plantations. which are in turn directly
controlled by the sugar agencies in
Honolulu, has been progressing and ex-
tending throughout the governors ad-
ministration and that this fact has been
winked at. In ethis respect his public
utterances and written reports in ref
erence to industrial conditions claiming
satisfactory progress in the develop
ment of this territory are misleading"
He is too strongly affiliated with the
plantation interests to be able to see
through them and to deal with them
as an outsider, and the plantation in
terests, as long as they find themselves
permitted to discourage and kill, di-
rectly or indirectly, the upbuilding of
homes in Hawaii and thus continue
their hold upon land and labor in their
own way. will continue to operate
along the same lines"
Kalanianaole calls attention to the
fact that there are about $4,000 acres
of public land now actually under cane
cultivation in the islands; that most
Of it is available. but that not one acre
has been applied to homesteading pur-
poses, and cites specific instances
where the administration refused to
deal with settlement associations at all
An Independent commission is asked
for by Kalanianaole to investigate the
conditions in Hawaii.