Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-12
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before the applause had died down.
:. I'm afraid your plan will bump the
Organic Act. he declared. sHThe bust.
ness proposition a man would ordinaT.
lily make doesn't work under this law,
and that's where the trouble lies.
AFDon't tell the local governmen:
What is can or cannot do. Make mp
yoiif mind as TO what ought to be
done. and then put it before Congress
through your legislature
Brandt Springs Sensation.
Then Thorvald Brandt, manager OF
the Bishop & Company branch at Wal
mea, who had hitherto sat quietly near
the front Of the hail, rose to spring
one OF the sensations of the meeting.
His talk conferred about a certain con-
yersation which the governor is al.
legged 20 have had with Albert Horner,
and in which be is said TO have de-
clared that he was against homestead
ing and that II would never lie sue
cess. On the other side of the hall.
also near the front, sat Mr.. HorneT.
= had no idea of expressing my
ideas when ] came here declared
Brandt in a calm voice, ''fJut there has
been a conversation published in the
Garden Island, IN which il Is claimed
the governor haG part. and which
must confess has been keen disap-
continent to me. -.
II nave come here in the hope of
hearing the governor repudiate these
words, for I am surprised that they
shouid come from an administration
which claims to work for the small
man.
Wants to Know Governors Attitude.
4 have heard nothing in the gov
sernor's speech that holds out any
great hope for the homesteader. If
statements are true that the governor
has said homesteading viii never be
euccess and never has been siIc-
cess, then wish to protest
4 can take the governor and show
him that demonstrating Is being sue
cess right this minute. Little matches
here and there, but representing totals
OF many thousands of dollars in cane
lands. Makee cleared $4,000 out of
homestead cane last year, and other
plantations cleared thousands out OF
homestead cane.
80 was when Lihue was given an.
opportunity to compete with Makee
that the homesteaders began to get
their rights hope there is never a.
change in the Organic Act which says
that any % men can get together and
ask that land be opened up for home
6tsadIng.'
c6peraor Does Not Answer.
Gorernor Pinhham neither affirmed
nor denied the alleged conversation,
and the statements Herewith. He igs'
nofed the remarks Of the Waimea
banker, which had ended in storm
OF hand clapping and pounding OF
hoinesteaders boots Hpoa the floor. s
Then arose one G. T. French. a
homesteader of the Waipouli tract,
formerly from North Dakota
There are one or two things IN the.
aovernor's remarks that don't be-
lietq have been properly stately pc.
Hor1esteacer Speaks. s
che declares that the government
4 sorely put 20 furnish money for the
homesteads. The h0mesteaders have.
never asked for money frcm the gov.
eminent. That has been advanced by
ne plantations 70 the homesteaders,
and Il was through no philanthropic
Bpirit either. II was loaned out az
good rate of interest. But when we
are tied up with one concern that Is
the only place We can 60 Still we.
have not asked the government for
financial aid. 4
I'm from the states ] never homer
steaded there, but have seen what