The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-03-12

does what is expected OF him ana sells
ont under such circumstances.
II the would.be settler, on the other
hand, by the intervention Of the gov
crnmcnt. secures footing whereby he
can maintain his own independence
and conduct his business and sell his
produce on stable and Independent
lines, few will sell their holdings: for
Hawaii is recognized as an exceedingly
inviting spot for home building for the
white race rs wen as for others. and
many who now leave do so with re-
grct and for reasons already explained.
May supply Americans.
The authority given the federal exec
utive by congress to make Hawaii the
naval and military center of the Pa
cific Ocean gives her peculiar and spe-
cial powers to make Hawaii such, not
merely with guns and forts, but with
n population and environment surround
ing those guns and forts OF the right
kind, for which no garrisons of idle
soldiers, however large, offer an AIDE
quate substitute. The money spent in
maintaining such exceptionally large
garrisons, il devoted to the reclama-
tion of the public lands and the devcl-
opment of transportation and market.
ing facilities, would soon make itself
felt in an increasing population, absol-
utelv loyal and available to supper: the
military forces and at the same time
one that would continue the production
of wealth and the maintenance OF
healthy local conditions.
And the arm of the American peo-
pie, if they set themselves to the task,
is not shortened, even yet, to make
Hawaii what she has n right to ex-
pect to be by reason of the civic at
tainments of 20 years before anuexa-
ton, and the high obligations imposed
upon the American people by the ex-
press obligations under which and in
consideration of which Hawaii Nolun-
tarily surrendered her sovereignty, to-
wit, an American commonwealth;
where, if by reason of our isolation,
statehood is permanently out of the
question, she will be permitted to OK
ercise every prerogative short of sta.e-
hood that can contribute to her ad-
vancement and the contentment of her
people.
Revolutionary Talk.
If, to attain this end, the federal gov
eminent is compelled to condemn and
take over every foot of land, public
and private, in Hawaii, and to recon
struct its industrial system from the
foundation up, in order to make good,
it should be done; but we believe an
honest and effective start in the right
direction with the public lands will act
as leaven to leaven the whole lump,
and that the task, in fact, is much
easier than it looks.
The federal government, through its
territorial officials, must supply the
want of middle class in Hawaii, I'M
til these people are sufficiently ad-
vanced to take care of themselves. And
the fact that the fundamental agree
ments between the settlers and the
plantations are put under direct gov
eminent supervision, and not dependent
upon the goodwill or personality of
plantation managers or owners, who can
undo today what was granted yester-
day, will in itself have wonderful re-
viving effects upon that independence
and freedom of action of the people,
which is indispensable to healthy
growth of population and which is now
almost totally eliminated in the envi-
ronment surrounding the small settler
in Hawaii. So true is this that citi
zens, particularly with large families
as they acquire means, are leaving com
Portable livings in Hawaii for the Pa
cific Coast, because they feel the future
has nothing in store for their families
at the Islands, and they had therefore
better make fresh start in California
where social, economic and political
conditions favor the poor man better.
Doesn't Want Commission.
To attempt to meet the situation by
commission government would simply
he to set up another bar sinister to
keep would-be immigrants away, be
sides intensifying the drift to the Coast
/ of those now in Hawaii, and leaving
! the Japanese and their increase to oc
cupy, that much more rapidly, the
places thus left vacant.
Hawaii is larger than Connecticut
and Rhode Island combined, and in
comparably more fertile. She produces
/ fifty million dollars worth of wealth
a year, and that amount can be dou
/ bled under healthful and stimulating
/ conditions. The natural conditions
there are such as to make it entirely
practicable to develop a population OF
five hundred thousand people of the
right kind.
Views of Frear.
Governor Frear's evident satisfaction
with the way things are going in Ha
wall is explained by some on the the
DRY that he is believer in commission
government for Hawaii, and from tina
standpoint lack of progress in develop
ing homesteads does not worry him
for such condition is the very thin
that will promote commission govern
ment. Others believe that the lack o
progress in the right direction is du
primarily to a lack of executive abb
ity, defect not apparent until tn
Governor left the purely judicial func
tions of chief justice for the executiv
chair.
The personal phase of the issue /
an embarrassment to those protestin
against his reappointment, for hi
faults are largely those of the elias
to which he belongs and the environ
fhnt hoe