The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-15

gress, if elected, to use his utmost
endeavor to prevent the passage of
any bill attempting to abolish such
tariff
Statehood for Hawaii.
The success of the Democratic Par.
ty already attained by securing a
large majority in the House Of Rep
resentatives and with the presen
bright prospects Of electing a Demo
cratic president, brings Hawaii near
er to statehood We charge insincer.
ity on the part of the Republican
Party and in proof we offer the fact
that althoufh a resolution was adopt
ed by tn last local legislature urging
the admission of Hawaii as a state,
no bill to that end was introduced
in Congress by the Republican dele
gate. We pledge our candidate for
Delegate to Congress to further t
movement for tHawahan statehtSd.
believing that the same is in accord
ance with the well recognized prin-
ciples of democracy.
Initiative, Referendum and Recall.
Should it be found that the Organic
act of Hawaii in any way prevents
the enactment by the local legisla-
hre of laws providing for establish
ing what are commonly known as
tie Initiative, Referendum and Recall,
then and in that case we pledge our
candidate for Delegate to Congress to
endeaYor to secure such an amend
ment as viii remove such disability.
Direct Primary and County Record
er's Office.
The platforms of both parties in
Hawaii, having repeatedly pledged
their candidates to enact a direct
primary law and also to enact a law
establishing the Office of recorder of
! deeds in each County, the Republi-
can Party having heretofore been -
continuous control of the legislature
| it alone is responsible for the fail
ure of such legislation. Therefore
if the next legislature again fails to
enact either or both of said proposed
laws we pledge our candidate for
Delegate to Congress to set forth the
facts and proofs and ask Congress
to pass both such laws which have
been so repeatedly demanded, as re-
reatedly promised by the Republican
Party, and by the same party so re-
peatedly refused
Citizen Labor on Federal Public
Works.
We pledge our candidate for Dele
gate to Congress to introduce a bill
and secure its passage, if possible,
conforming to our local citizen labor
law and requiring all Federal public
work in the Territory of Hawaii 10
be performed by citizen labor only.
OQueen LiIiuokaIani.
We pledge our candidate for Dele
gate to Congress to endeavor to Sc
cure a pension from the United States
government for former Queen Liliuo-
kalani in such an amount as Congress
may deem appropriate.
Vested Fishing Rights.
We urge upon Congress and we
pledge our candidate for Delegate to
Congress so to do, the necessity of
appropriating money and to acquire
by condemnation, If necessary, all
vested private fishing rights in this
Territory, and to open the same for
public use.
Revision Of Land Laws.
The Democratic party of the Ter
ritory of Hawaii has, for a number Of
years, advocated a complete revision
of the land laws of this Territory,
and while our efforts have not been
crowned with complete success, we
have succeeded in obtaining certain
amendments of the land laws which
are beneficial to some extent to the
people of this Territory; these
amendments were brought by local
Democrats before the House Commit
tee on Territories at Washington, D.
C. We have been unable, however,
to succeed in having a complete re-
vision Of the Land Act, and we be-
lieve that the said Act, in the present
form, is clumsy, unintelligible and
unavoidable; the Land Act of 1895, as
amended by the recent amendments
of the Organic Act, is so complex,
ambiguous and unintelligible that
even the shrewdest lawyers are In
doubt as to it's exact meaning. We
should have enacted by Congress a
plain and simple land law similar In
terms to the United States Land
Laws, so that the homesteader may
by reading the same, understand
what its terms and his duties are
The Attorney Generals Department
of this Territory has recently insti
tuted several actions against home
/ steaders on the Island of Hawaii sol
the declared purpose of securing {
judicial Interpretation OF the Land
! Act and the law relating thereto;
this is in itself an admission by the