The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-05-07
Governor Me- drthy

ed within few days Az longest. b, The message
bringing word of the confirmation private.
one to tn, man most concerned by Senator Shaf-3
roth, chairman OF the committee on Pacific ISLANDS
and Porto Rico, the Committee through which the,
nomination was handled in the senate.
e. The prompt confirmation OF the nomination OF
Colonel Mccarthy to the highest executive office
of the Territory is, trusts an augury OF the adj
rninstraton soon TO- START As reported IN The
Advertiser a.few days ago, not protest against
the nomination was fled at Washington. In Ha-
,yaii there has been heard no open opposition to
the nomination On the other hand there has
been wide appreciation All Of which makes the
news OF the confirmation most welcome and
launches the new administration under circum-
stances most suspicious. =,
The entry of Governor Mccarthy into terri
torial affairs comes most opportunity. 1t is not
to be expected that he will be able, all at once, TO
settle the numerous urgent matters calling Tor
solution, the matters that have been piling up
through the administration now dying amid gene
raj congratulations. But it is certain that Nc
Carthy, working in the open, as he is expected to
do, will be able to unite the community behind
certain Necessary measures, one OF which IS the
immediate settlement of land affairs to meet the
war requirements OF the day.
4 IS Mccarthy will be able to do this because the
public has confidence in his word and nurses no
Unsuitable suspicious of double dealing his part.
The land tangle has come through years OF studied
deception and it can be cut only with the sword
Of common sense and common honesty, with
which qualifications Mccarthy is popularity
credited is
The sugar land of the expired Lhue lease and
the acres being abandoned of cultivation by the
\ Waiakea plantation need never have reverted. The
management of Lihue, according to credible re-
port, offered to continue the cultivation OF the
lands about to revert to the government, charging
actual expenditures against the land until such
time as it could be homesteaded, then entering IN
to acceptable cultivation contracts, ante-dating
these TO the first period OF cultivation. This would
have ensured the continuity Of crop and the main
tenance Of the sugar output.
N At Hanapepe, where fifteen hundred acres OF
land now lie idle. the offer was made to continue
cultivation and turn the entire net proceeds over
TO the government. - r." =
B A year ago Waiakea offered to turn back a tholi-
sand acres of it's leased sugar land to the govern:
ment for immediate homesteading, in order to en-
sure the continuous cultivation Of the tract Today
the greater part Of that thousand acres Is aban-
doned, with weeds choking the 'ratoonsg ~
n A patriotic executive, with honest intentions
towards homesteaders and with a desire to help
the government by keeping up the. output oil
sugar, would never have allowed any Of this land
to become fallow and unproductive. So deep-root
ed was the desire to crush demonstrating, however
and so opposed was the administration to frank
honest and open dealing in any matter touching
land and corporations, that the situation has beer
\ created where our full contribution in the way Of
I, food products towards the national need is i'm
perilled
Governor Mccarthy can clear this up, because
the people have confidence in his honesty OF in
Z tention If he so saw fit he could secure the war
time suspension of the homesteading law, because
the public generally would not suspect that his ad
yocacy of such thing might be cloak for fur
Their strangling of legitimate homesteading in Ha
\ wall This is not bis intention however. His eff
fort will be to that the prospective home
steader secures the justice he has been denied anC
in such way that the sugar production need no
suffer. He will do, to put it shortly what SHOULD
have been done year ago. He will, in his owl
words, give the corporations and the homesteader
each what is fairly theirs, and once this is mad
plain as policy all serious troubles win end,
The egomania which has blocked the almos
unanimous desire for such a charter for the Rapit
Transit as will enable it to extend its system t.
meet legitimate demands will now vanish, alonj
with the other combinations of personal spite ant
senile obsessions that have forced the Territory +
mark time number Of projects during tn
past five years. The incubus that has made ofic
boys out OF executive heads of departments will
be lifted The administration will turn and fac
the future and the visits OF men OF affairs to tn
y Capitol may be resumed, in the knowledge tina
hours need not be wasted listening to maunder
ings that start nowhere and circle back throug
the Philippine Islands to the same place. Their
will be fewer shabby limitations of royalty within
old Iolani but whole lot more commonsense An
infinitely more business.
3 We look for action from the minute Governo
Mccarthy takes his oath of Office and action tina