Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-18

and undeS1rability has been cast upOT
our island people. We pledge ourselye.
to the utmost to do everything in oul
power to combat this harmful anG
false implication.
). WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Believing that the continued disfran
C3isement Of women is a relic Of an
tiquity that belongs to other days, and
that women never have maintained
} and never will maintain their moral
natural or legal rights save by the
possession Of political rights, we favor
the enactment Of laws granting equal
suffrage to them. AS this is sub.
ject upon which the territory itself
should be permitted to legislate, we
/ favor the submission TO congress of
| a memorial for an amendment to the
! organic act by which the legislature
Of the territory may have power to
act or may, should such course seem
advisable, call special election for a
submission Of the question to- the
voters. .,
TARIFF.
BY 1914, the effects of the in
auguration OF the Democratic party
into power on the mainland during the
| preceding year had reached this ter
ritory. Through the enactment of their
evil principles or free trade into leg
islatiOn, the output of our predomin-
ant industry was to be marketed in
| competition with the sugar of the
world including those countries where,
owing to the low standard of living,
wages are but a fraction of those paid
Ito the laborers of Hawaii; and where
the cost of sugar production is cor
respondingiy less. The effect of such
legislation was inevitable. With the
natural decentralization of our prinei-
pal industry, ever the mainstay OF
these islands, prosperity vanished,
values deprecated, progress in all
business enterprises was retarded and
| frequently abandoned, thus throwing
Eout Of employment hundreds of work.
tingmen formerly engaged In lucrative
trades, and bringing suffering Incl.
dent to poverty and want into many
| homes. -
Through the wholly unforeseen in
eeption of the great war, and the
consequent increase in the price OF
sugar; and later through the enforced
restoration by the Democrats them
selves of q portion of the protective
tariff in order to supply the urgent
needs of treasury depleted through
extraEagance and false doctrine, the
! Hawaiian sugar industry has again,
but. entirely through chance, been re-
stored to a position of prosperity.
Then, too, the appointment of an I'M
usually efficient Democrat to the high.
est, executive office in the territory
has somewhat mitigated the usual
'rigors incidental to Democratic con:
troll. = 3 .ss.e : 49,. = ~ a.@-.-T-
In. expressing their choice at the
polls, the electorate will be called upon
to choose between permanent Re-
publican prosperity, proved by expert
ence to be the logical result OF the
economic laws of q protective tariff;
and temporary Democratic prosper.
ity which sprang from an accident,
and, ls recent experience has con.
clusiyely demonstrated, is doomed to
prevail only during the continuance
Of world conditions wholly abnormal.
eve especially urge the electorate
not TO be misled as TO the true cause
of the present and uncertain prosper
ity; and through urerring discrimina'
ton in casting their votes next Nov.
ember for a Republican delegate to
Congress and Republican officials
throughout the islands, to at once re-
cord their Endorsement and approval
of the party of progress and pros
perity; and their protest against the
continuance In power of the party
again tried and found wanting" =.
MERCHANT MARINE. = =
We favor a merchant marine con-
structed by American labor and
capital and bearing the American
flag. We are unalterably opposed u
government owned and government
operated merchant marine as unsound
policy and which surely will impose
heavy expense upon the country and
subject us to embarrassing interna-
tional complications. We favor such
legislation on the part OF the gov.
eminent as may be necessary to en-.
able American ship owners to build
their vessels and sail them upon the
high seas In successful competition
with the merchant vessels. Of other
nations. 49, rH:e
We condemn the Democratic adj
ministration for driving our merchant
men from the Pacific ocean. We pro-
pose the systematic extension OF our
markets into all quarters OF the
world. 49, !, -
CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
We reiterate the pledge to amend
the charter of the City and County
of Honolulu to make it more progress,
siye and modern in its general pro.
visions, including the provisions as
outlined through other planks in this
document e,
We further pledge our legislative
candidates to amend such other cotin'
ty charters within the territory; as the
legislative delegates from such eoun'
ties may reques-.
!. 49, PRISON REFORM
! We favor the passage of law
Whereby territorial prisoners having
dependents would receive remunera-
tioy, for their work: such remunera-