Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-04-16


wittily exploded by Judge Weaver.
But its nnfairness may be shown more
directly. Now, the gift of Ainahau on
condition of its being closed to the
public at shutdown. may be more fair
~ compared with the gift of a coat on
condition that it be not worn wrong
side out, condition that the donee
would probably observe anyway with
out its imposition: the same as the
shutdown proyiso is practically self
imposed.
Lest it be argued that the territory
should not take over something Pc
cuIiarly for the benefit of Honolulu;
it may be noted that the mayor and
two supervisors were at the meeting
advocating its acceptance: urging that
the county be, given more authority
over local parks, and pointing out
that the county was already con-
tributing both in money and the use
of prison labor toward their upkeep
But of course, what benefits Honolulu
locally and what attracts visitors to
Honolulu, and so to the. volcano, to
Haleakala, to Hanalei, helps Hawaii.
mel; and Honolulu also contributes
towards the things which the legisla-
ture gives to other places and which
are in no direct benefit to Honolulu.
Yet, most of all, the place is to honor
a princess of all the Hawaiian people
throughout the islands. throughout
the world. Honolulu only happens to
be the place of the monument
Considerable was said against ''the
dead hand of Cleghorn" speaking
down through the years to deny men
the enjoyment of Ainahau by night
Here was another ,argumentum ad
hominem, addressed to mems preju-
dices and not to their reason, Dead
hands" are no source of terror or re-
yulsion, so long as they are beneficent
dead hands. We might just as well
vent our wrath against the dead
hands Of Kamehameha the Great and
of Kamehameha III in Hawaiian, POI
litical history and liberty, the dead
hand of Bernice Pauahi Bishop, in
education and other good works, of
Lunalilo, ]. B. Atherton and Mother
Castle in charity, all hands still felt
here in Hawaii. The Liuokalani
Trust provisiens may also be mem
toned in this connection, No Hawaii
ans that know of--and they are the
people who should be mainly inter
ested-haye been heard to oppose this
gift of Ainahau for reason of any
dead hand" or otherwise, while the
leading Hawaiians of the country, the
Queen, and the Delegate, are strongly
for its acceptance.
AS to the acceptance of the gifts
being unconstitutional, as inconsistent
with the legislatures prerogatives of
Police power, some of US do not agree
with Judge Humphreys, and so long
as we can never have the gift without
trying to accept it and then testing
any question of power by means of the
only branch of government that should
have that right, the judiciary. we
should not urge the legislature to be
both law-maker and court and jury in
advance. 1t would seem, however, that
the legislature which by its police
power may make reasonable restric-
tions as to the use of property, should
also have the right to accept property
with reasonable restrictions attached.
At all events, so far as the power to
bind future legislatures is concerned,
any argument on that phase may be
disposed of by resort to the govern
ment,s power to contract, as it con-
stantly does by, way of accepting
leases with reservations and restric.
tons, and by resort to the fact that
the acceptance of this gift may be
viewed practically as gift of the use
Of Ainahau by daylight, and as such
it may properly be accepted without
any fear of Illegally. 49,.
The writer discIaims any candidacy
for the post of "veritas" or pro bono
publico" otherwise known as "thes vii
lage pest" but despite his official po-
sition reserves the right of every man
to say what he believes needs to be
said, without speaking too often
through the public press-the most
wide-reaching forum Of our day. He
would hurt no ones feelings, and par
ticular persons with whom he SYM
pathizes are only the occasion of his
remarks and not the object Of them.
The object of them, in essence, is Gov
ernor Cleghorn, Likelike, Kaiulani,
and the unnamed thousands who will
profit in pleasure. in health, and in
morals, in the words larger sense,
from the use of Ainahau r.. - -,
CHARLES f.. CLEMONS.
Though there are threats of further
opposition to the Iaukea bill, propos-
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