Ke Aloha Aina, Volume XXXIV, Number 24, 4 Iulai 1919 — The New Freedom [ARTICLE]

The New Freedom

Hawaii ■ uv«- ( U;1 . :' i,Utir l^B agkod qwitkm.^w^ 0 f u lt .', "/;' BuaB M ture, U*e keynot£ df %aA "#aw U u, ', u ' statehood in Uk m , ' " ! ;| ,,l:ihf q^B ture by jweh »cte p j|y^i>fJfter official a^ s , '" tl " tfM*t wls& *N aenate o» .. .VH le^^alaūu^ blockiiugefforUof mtembersof thai. sdioui.!. Hie Monitor is juAt incensed at th. a „ , legislature, and is quite losato,explaiii SU cii 1/ ',' ( t th 9 bm on th« part of & legislature BUpposeoiy Auiuiie-.i/ ,l ! effort» to aooounfc for the cowartflx and wbito-hvciu! l( . t&e Hawaiian senate the Boston paper even alvuuu -, u,i !' Uiat Germana were at the bottom of the trouble, a ".! n, ' fight oa the ltogunge school bill was, in tho luJi tf lu ! 1 work of Qermani. thH Aa to the probability q{ atatehood for iiawau u lv W( *%bouW ytmy," a» the saying goes. With thc j,,' majority of inhabitants in these ialands, witli pwian.' (V!!® juriving here at the rate 0f about 4,000 every yeai, una v> uh u, jM and all precediag picture IsrideB breeding hk e rubbu 5) ui m W jM about as mueh ehauee pf Unele Sam's grantmg 9I Mawaii aa there is of a biind m«j's,catchiug a U]J a That is, unleaa Uneie Sam wiahea tp eede these lalanj s j u LH whieh is hardly probable-—iust c jf!et. l H . The fact§ m thw the langua Rl ; , UUK)I ln[ M (the purpoee? of whieh are cfirrectly aet t forth i» ti iu editorial) waa, frora the moment the meaauie iuauaue,.* in the Houae ot Eepre6eutatiy€f ii& defeat m Uj „ iuaieH fought tooth.and nail by a vicioua and nitensely acuvo ,j aiJdr lobby. During the hearing of the bill threats v,ew i i>uuc uaiiy fl both by the lobbyisie and by |hB Japane6e press, Uuu a Uj{ . 1 guage aehool bill passed, the Japaneee laborers on ūiu piania-H tions would strike and that mo»t of them would go h uim . ~9 Japan if they were prevented from, or handicappcd n., 11;tUjl ,, lg l their beloved mother tongue. H The Houae refuaed to immekle down to tlie ajl ,i 1i: .9 timidatmg Japaneae lobby, and pasaed the bill m and that, too, in spite of strong preaaure brought to uuu u lU l plantation mterestB upoa memuene from the outsidu iWmk' I However, when the biU went to the §enate there a dif- 9 ferent tale to tell. Faced with a threatening Oneniiii k.;,^, aud I prodded from behind by the plantation intereste, ckvea uf tbel fifteen senators pCTmitted,their aUegiance to Kbg w V , vti r- 9 c»me (for the time U» hope} our generaily uutpku9 ideals of AmeriquiiBm, and"tfee inculcation and mamieiiuuu b i I thoee ideala in our public aehoola Those eleven men «;ui t uu ■ American legislature by American and solenmlv awum te I fuifill their legiatetiYe dutie» as 106 per cent Ameneanii, pi-Mmi- I themselves to be bulldo?ed, blulfed and intuui<laiL-i, :. } 1.l- ■ lineai descendanta of the offscourings of Yokohoma an» r iu*i<>, I (wko eame here in Kalakaua'a Ume to work for lOe d dit) ) UUii by theplantfttion intereste, acting through aueh people n-1 > ■ being that the language aehool bill was killed in the btii t , 11 M to 4, H Senator X>esiia fittingly epitomi»ed the entire aitua 11 un l he shouted out in the Senate chamber: . I "The -whole thing against thia bill is thi; ,yniighty ■ Dollar. Some of the plaotations fear if this bill pa.-< > I Aat their labor will leaVe the country, and they are pui■■ I ting the love o/ the Almighty Dotlar ahead oj the%r U> w 1 of country." I And these.words, be it noted, are from the mouth oi u maii ■ who ia a minister of the goepel, a conservative Kepuhlie'an <.1 nie ■ old aehool, and the last msn jn the Tca:ritory who euala ! > - 1 cused ofhaymg radical 1 The infiuential and widely read Christian Science .Mo;.uiur I deserves the thanks of this community fox drawing tlie attjn- ■ - tion of the people of the United States to tinis particular mattcr. ■ And it might be added that Hawaii, more than any otlipr plaee ■ in the Unite<| States, needs * latge and powerful searchlight <U-. ■ 1 reeted upon the sore spots of our aoeial and political life. |