Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-05-18
(Contlued from Page Nine.l
Homesteaders Needed.

TO be devised systems OF homestead
inG, transportation, irrigation, plant
ing. milling, marketing and financing
in which all elements concerned just
~. fairly and with sound business and
executive sense coordinate, and each
receive their just relative dues. other
wise there can be no success.
The government is steadily work
ing out these problems and will have
them ready for legislative approval
or disapEroyal at the session Of 1917.
which will brecede the possession OF
these lands by the government
The homesteader is not the only
one interested in public lands. The
army Of the United States Of America
is vitality so and this administration
is working with intense interest in
its behalf.
You cannot coop up on relatively
small area on this island ten to TWEEN
ty thousand soldiers; they must have
opportunity to march, maneuver and
camp.
Roads and Harbors Needs.
Two large properly situated camp
sites have been. set aside by agree
ment with the governor.
This administration is trying to
make exchanges for imperatively need
ed sites of defense, as the army has
not the means to purchase and delay
is dangerous.
The territory asks no monetary
consideration.
One. of the choicest localities on
this, island, one of the finest beaches
in the world, is inaccessible. To reach
ii a military road of the highest class
is needed. .., so .......
Congress should give the territory
in conjunction with the army, all or a
part Of the cost of such highway.
IF you aid us in providing roads
and harbors, we can make progress.
81 have placed before you by chart
as graphically as printers ink can dis
close. seven of our vital problems.
Each of you must draw his own
conclusion as to the solution or the
ultimate effect of each problem.
The Hawaiian People. ,..-.-
Friends, you are visiting peculiar
people, a people whose history is large
ly legendary, people without old
and ancient monuments or literature.
Nature was too mild, and, with all her
generosity, forgot to provide the me-
tallic means that has been the basis
of other civilizations and their rec
ords.
Il witnessed the passing away of
this peoples racial and national po-
litical entity. saw the forces of
commercialism that, for its own ends
brought about hastily a condition that
every thinking Hawaiian knew was in
evitable, for they realized the king
dom was too weak to resist the ambi-
tons of whichever aggressive sea-
power might first force their growing
ambitions of the control of the Pa
ciffc on them The only cry | heard,
and it came privately from the high
est officials, was the one any self
respecting thoroughbred people would
make:
eve have long realized our destiny
and only ask that we should have
voice in the disposition of our own
country .....
1T was denied. Often as / enter
the capitol | remember that last pub
lie appearance of their queen, and no
queen was ever more queenly. re.
member the exquisite courtesy extend.
ed by Princess Kaiulani to your COM
mission to provide government. for
Hawaii.
Justice and courtesy from the great
American republic was due and sought
for the former queen and her sue
cessor. Nothing could be effected.
Some tardy local reparation has been
made. probably equal to the actual
needs of her majesty at her time of
life. .- e..
THE Overlooking hospitality shown
you by the Hawaiians and the people
cannot be other than from the spirit of
friendship, kindness, hospitality and
ceremonial that was innate in the Ha-
waiian kingdom and that has there
from become ingrained into our whole
social life T..
1T is with intense sadness I view
the Hawaiians' inability to compre-
bend or contend with modern aggres-
sive commercialism. 1t is against his
nature. His traditions are against the
exactions Of a life controlled by mo-
tives of gain. Intense Oriental ex-
plotting ambition and purpose crowds
him to one side Where it will land
him you must surmise.
In our citizens labor law we have
given him all the legal protection in
our power.
National Guard Needed.
Public order must be preserved
under all conditions, and, in case of
war, the United States army cannot be
expected to exercise local restraint
and police duty. hence the need for
more efficient national guard.
THE national guard of Hawaii is
comprised of about IS per cent Hawaii
ans and it is to them we must look
under present conditions for local pro-
lection. The significance of the loyal
ty and devotion of the Hawafians
should not escape your notice.
"A chain is no stronger than its
weakest link and the United States of
America is no stronger than its mer-
chant marine, which Is the only safe
reliance for it's foreign commerce and
its expansion in the time of peace and