The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-11-01
So He Tells a HiIo Audience in
Referring to Coming Ses-
sion of Congress.
HE is NOT OPPOSED TO SUGAR
But If the Plantations Want to
Scrap They Will Find Him
Ready for It.
tFrom Wednesday Advertiser.)

(From Wednesday Advertiser.)
Accompanied by the Rev. Stephen
Desha, the Delegate, altogether reeov-
cred from his recent illness, returned
from Hilo yesterday. He will start in
at once on his Oahu campaign and will
tour the fifth district with Desha. At
Hilo, on Friday evening, the Delegate
addressed the voters, telling them that
I"MY FIGHT IN CONGRESS HAS
NOT BEEN MADE YETI He said,
in part:
~ think it would be well for me TO
explain at this time the fight which
have been making for the good Of tho
people as a whole, f." he said. 1.-THE com
ment has been made, especially by plan
tation managers, that l am opposed to
! the sugar interests. I have been in con.
gress ten years, and 1 have been with
congressman who legislate for the good
of the entire Union. have heard them
say constantly that this country was
not being Americanized. The condi-
tions here have never been improved.
Ever since annexation we have been do.
ing things in exactly the same way as
we did them for twenty years before
annexation. We forgot that we must
change our ways, and that we must do
things in the way Americans do them.
81 hear these things in congress, you
know. All over these Islands, partic.
ularly on Kauai, most of the land be-
llongs to estates. There is not piece
of land on Kauai which a citizen can
buy outright.
Have to Raise Jap Scare.
"There was nothing personal in my
attack on Governor Frear, but l find
that we can get no appropriations from
congress under the present conditions,
unless we put up Jap scare or some
thing of the sort. Roosevelt said, when
he was President, that the Territory
must be developed along traditional
American lines, and we have been
told the same thing time and time
again.
Wants Americans.
"Have we done sol No. Has the
administration administered the land
lazy for the benefit of the small mani
say: No. 1t has never done it. And
l protest because congress wants Ameri-
cans or people like themselves to be set
tiers in this Territory and to American
ize it.
"McCandless says that the Governor
is not to blame. He says that the law
is to blame, and that / ought to have
changed it. McCandless is talking
through his nose. The law is all right.
The visit of Fisher has proved, through
the statements made by plantation
managers, that no man can make liv-
ing on less than forty or fifty acres of
land. Now they say that they are 90.
ing to encourage homesteaders. Still
the land commissioner takes the set
tiers money, but when the time for the
issuance of the patents comes around
the government tells the settlers that
they violated the conditions two, three
or four years ago, and that they can
get no patents. That is no way to en-
courage homesteading.
'The law does not tell the admins
tration to limit the homestead lots to
three acres. The law merely says that
the lots must not be above eighty acres
of first-class land. 1t is the administra
; ton, and not the law, which is to blame
Fight in Congress Ahead.
McCandless tells you that oppos,
the plantations. / know what are the
interests of the Territory, that the
prosperity thereof depends ON sugar.
am not fool enough to oppose sugar
McCandless damned the plantations two
years ago, and now he praises them
! MY FIGHT IN CONGRESS HAS NOT
BEEN MADE YET, BUT WHEN THE
TINE COMES TO MAKE IT, 1 WILL
!. NOT BE AFRAID, AND / WILL
FIGHT FOR THE BEST INTERESTS
, OF THE TERRITORY.
, cit has been admitted from Kau II
Niihau that the visit of Secretary
Fisher was one of the best things thai
ever happened to the Territory. II
that is so, give me credit for it. Yor
7 can find nothing in my charges that il
5 opposed to the sugar interests, but Il
: the planters wish to fight man whc
stands up and gives his views, then
am ready to buck. Tt is cheap for Nc
Candless to talk about the Mckinley
bill and to say that the Democrats will
win this year, and that therefore &
Y Democratic Delegate should be sent t.
! Congress.
n "But even if the local Democrats
: are opposed to free sugar, viii that stoI
the great Democratic party from pass
ing free sugar bill, which it is pledg
ed tot McCandless has said lot about
cobwebs growing in my seat in con
Y gress. j am always in Washington
!, when there is anything to be done.
: have never shirked my duty. 1t is you
+ duty to send to congress a man from
: the party whose policy is protection Il
show how the Territory stands on tbs
matter