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TUB HAWAIIAN STAR. IATUKDAY, MAY H, 111. THE HAWAIIAN STAR rublishcd erery afterneen (exoept Sunday) by tho Hawatlnn Star iWewapapor Association, Ltd., Star Building, Morohant Btroet, Honolulu. "WALTER Q. SMITH i .EDITOR SATURDAY MAY 25, 1912 KHPUIiLIC OK DEMOCRACY? 3 If tho progressive movomont, so-called, Is to hnve Its way, It Ib hnrd ,to sco what will become of tho Institutions of tho republic over which the pcoplp havo been so proud for five gonerntlonn and so confident of their strongth and safoty. Wo now havo n ropresontatlvc government. It Is ono which avoids tho dictatorship of a strong man on tho ono hand and the foibles of mob caprice on tho other; and which compels dollboratlon at every stop In the choice of temporary rulers or agents of popular rule, and an independent Judiciary to keep the balance truo. This system of repre sentative government has stood gigantic teste, Including that of civil war; and It hns produced a growth In strength and prosperity in ono century, which has culminated In more of both than any monarchy has built up in five hundred years. And now It Is calmly proposed in tho name of patriot ism, to overturn it all by socialistic experiments. Instead of selected con ventions to nominate and deliberative legislatures to enact, there is pro posed conventions to register tho capricious will of hasty primaries, and a legislature whoso powers may bo superseded by the majority man with a rubber stamp in a voting booth, with two minutes given him to unmake old laws or niako new ones. Instead of a thoughtful and Impartial judiciary jve m&y havo ono which may bo recalled or tho decisions of which may be reversed by a voting proletariat; hence judges, who want to retain employ ment,1 will be tempted to trim their sails to every wind of caprice and to misinterpret the constitution to keep tho fickle favor of tho mob. Under such a system the republic may easily go by default and a democracy grow up which will tempt the same fato that has visited all denocraclcs from the day of tho Achiaon League, to tho downfall of that French democracy which invoked the Terror and finally accepted the rule of Napoleon as a means of 'escape from it. "Back to the people," is the plausible cry of these innovators, but if we had always gone back to tho people directly, Washington would have been degraded in his second presidency to help Citizen Genet embroil this coun try witn England while at peace with her; tho people of half the States might, have foresworn tho war of 1812 after It had been declared; Lincoln would havo been repudiated after tho failure of several northern campaigns; McKlnley would have been voted down for not opening tho war with Spain beforo tho country was ready for it; and a war with Japan might havo been declared off-hand. That Is what comes of going back to the people without tho intervention exercised between the thoughtless mob and Its goal, by our wise system of checks and balances. Progresslvenoss, so-called, has no known limitations. Ono cannot tell how far Into socialism It might go. Oregon has a new proposition to make, involving, It Is true, less widespread voting, but concentrating a state-wide recall by a simplified recall system or the appointive power. Where the Governor even appoints county officers, his recall would work a general change. But hero is the detailed proposition as it comes from Oregon's People's .Power League: Cabinet system of government for the state with a state , business manager on big salary to take general charge. Governor and state auditor tho only state, officers to be elected by tho people, others being appointed by tho governor. .Sheriffs and district attorneys to be appointed by the gov , ernor. Board of three "directors" to rule in county government and employ a county business manager, the latter to appoint other county officers. , State senate to bo abolished. i Sixty members of legislature to be elected by proportional representation by the state at large. Members of the legislature to hold power on roll call In voting In proportion to the vote they received at the election. Governor and defeated candidate for governor to be ex-officlo members of legislature and hold largo voting power therein, j' Entire legislature may be recalled and activities suspended pending the recall vote. ThlB concentrates the business of subverting tho old system, and If It differs in mode it does not differ in kind from the subversion plans else where in the domain of socialistic Insurgency. To stand by the republic becomes thus a call of patriotism. It is com mon fealty to the republic that Washington and Jefferson, Hamilton and Adams left us; but to go the other way is to accept the advice of the Cum- mlns's and the La Follettes as that of wiser men; and to lay the republic itself as a burnt offering on the altar of socialism. THE CANDIDATE I3y WALT MASON. I statu! for nil that's kooiI anil pure ant! this, our country, can't cmiurc it you should turn tne ilown; bcnentli my coat and vest am things I have a handsome pair of wings, and in my grip a crown Unless you choose me as your guide you're pretty sure to wander widi in morass, fen and swamp ; but if you choose me for your chief I'll lend you from this gloom and grief to splendor and to pomp. All other can didates who beg your votes and try to pull your leg are wolves in sheep's array; on Virtue I have placed my brand; lruc Worth ts eating from my hand, as horses cat their hay. 1 am the reepul s only friend ; if 1 m defeated there's an end to all their earthly hopes;; the government our fathers built will get the cleaver to the lult, and tumble through the ropes. If I'm defeated anarchy will sweep this country of the free, our homesteads be laid waste; tile liusbanumaii will wade in blood, the clergyman throw gobs of mud, the printer cat his paste. The rivers all will backward flow, the garden sass refuse to grow, there'll he no prunes or figs; the blighted trees will wilt and die, the cows and wells will all go dry, the hens will hatch out pigs. To dodge this dire catastrophe you'll simply have to vote for mc' and help along my boom, for I alone can be the shield, the sword and buckler you must wield to shun this Copyright, 1912, by Georgo Matthew Adams. ' WALT MASON. hour on tho stage during tho French Revolution, and tho experience In those countries and periods was not such as would commend them to Americans of the twentieth century. The recall of judges and Judicial decisions would bring a reign of demagogy and of mob rulo which would disorganize our whole Judicial machinery, and reduce our orderly system of law enforce ment to the lovel of tho jurisprudence of the sand lots In the days of Denis Kearney. Tho framers of the American Constitution had the initiative and recall, under other names, before them when they were engaged In fashioning their charter, and they rejected them. As between "pure democracy" and representative republicanism, they selected tho latter, and their follow countrymen havo applauded their courage and wisdom. Frank Leslie's. LITTLE INTERVIEWS A. H. FORD I am having tho lot over tho Public Service Association cleaned up. If tho Press club likes It, It can pay for It; if not, we will do so. BAGGAGE INSPECTOR CARTER I am feeling a little bettor but dengue leaves you very weak. About tho end of next week I shall be feeling myself again. GERRIT WILDER Hero are somo ivoheo nuts from a nine-year-old tree. Aren't they fine? Don't tell mo tint twenty-five years are needed to make lychee trees bear. CAPTAIN BERGER I have been a citizen as well as bandmaster. My money has been spent in Honolulu and here I have brought up and edu cated my children. DR. J. S. B. PRATT A clean-up day for Honolulu Is just what the city needs to give some of tho citizens a jolt anB enable them to show others whethor they have any public spirit or dy Company will bo here In a couple ot weeks and will play a limited engage ment In Honolulu. Tho company ha made good- In China, Japan and tha Philippines, and that they will ba warmly welcomed back here Is a cer talnty. D. L. WITHINGTON In California 088,015 voters were registered for the primaries. Roosevelt got but 135,000. In Massachusetts, where Roosevelt got 200.000 votes when h ran for pres ident, ho only got 81,000 In tho recent tests. Tho voto In tho other States was in the same proportion. EG EN LOW All this talk you hear about having tho board of supervisors appointed by the Chamber of Com nierco and the Merchants' Association does not sound good to me. Look at the commissions that have already been appointed, they aro failures when compared to our board. DR. MINNETTE Bl'RNHAM I was ami mar Mi mwmoh t grew more ami HHfra attr ihs ttntrth f July With It HltfRMIrfrtWMlnK mm!hi nitiiroaeliM. Tho performances at the Liberty go bo Hinoothly that tho company might woll bo referred to an the Juven-oll Hostonliuis. t) Tho ndvortlflomcnt for a lost brooch, with "a duck In a diamond setting." somehow romlnds ub of Farmer Weed on's Crystal White Orpington settings at ?2.00 per. 0 Honolulu Twenty-Five Years Hence. Jim Murray dropped a sand-bag from his aoropleno last Monday nnd killed a forelgnow named Franconl. 31m tnys It has proved a good ad. for him as a candldnto for chlof-of-pollco. A frultfly wfllch had la that tin upaetal mmwlaatBiir te lHr0tia ilia Oevarnnr will nut nlart ail Tttamlar. Tlitt la tha Hoventh time that the vlult has been toMponed ntid the Governor wb thr.t Ills unrip, who (Continued on Pngo F.vo ) LAUNDRY M.E88ENQER BOY PARCEL DELIVERY. PHONE 1111 Ill I I ! I I nr.Mn i " Running on Howard time" the highest praise the "old man " can give. The new How ard Special Railroad Dial has a spread of numerals for everv nit mil f from t wings throe feet and four Inches was to 6o around the dial. A glance shot last Tuesday by the" airship agont' tells the number of minutes past at Mnkapuu Point. It was carrying the hour. off a toursop belonging to Harry Mills Jr., Bradstrect's agent for tho wind-1 ward wards. Tho ladjes of Honolulu havo finally determined to put a .stop to the hill board and acroboard nuisances. It was calculated yesterday that there uro 380 miles of billboards In Honolulu and that over 70 aeroplanes were out last Sunday displaying church announce ments. The ladies Ere up in arms anybody's and say that the nuisance mutt stop. The latest news from Washington It us how you tho Howard Wlch. Vtlce Jlitd hj printed ticket $33 to f ISO, J. (l. H Vielra & go. JEWELERS 113 Hotel Street HIGH-CLASS LADIES' TAILORING J. E. Rocha Elite Bldg. Hotel St. w ft 9 The New Gospel of War General Bernhardt, a German soldier of high professional and literary repute, Is preaching to his countrymen a new gospel of war. Those who think with General Bernhardt are only too likely, wo fear, to dismiss all unfavorable criticism abroad as natural but of no account, like the crltl clsm tuat mignt bo passed upon tne narrow uy tno toau. But it is not, we hope, in vain to suggest to tho greater part of tho German nation that tho indignation which General Bernhardl's ideas must inevitably evoke In many English minds Is not necessarily prompted by any antagonism to tho patriotic inspiration which makes him believe In his own race. It was a great Ger man thinker who said that tho tragedy of history lies in tho conflict be tween right and right, not In the conflict between right and wrong. Every nation worthy of tho name has in it some ingrained iconvictlon that It Is "chosen of tho Lord." Patriotic literature in every language is full of that assumption, and patriotic poetry we need only recall Mr. Rudyard Kipling's "Recessional" has no more potent method of appeal. As Individual peoples wo bellevo in our distinctive institutions, our intellectual and moral atmoS' phere, our social organization, our general way of life, above all, in our own tongue. To believe in theso is to desire In some measure that they may spread and prevail, at least amongst the more virile peoples who divide the ordering -of the world; und the British peoples, whose virility In this respect has built itself so many citadels in different parts of the globe. should bo the last to criticize a similar ambition In another race. Were General Bernhardl's argument confined within these limits, it would, we think, be unexceptionable, though many might regret the spirit in which it was urged. But It Is a long stop further to contend, as he ap pears to do, that any war must necessarily be right, and no deceit immoral, even In time of peace, which may be called for in the Interest of war. Thus regarded, war is not an evil to be avoided, but a good to bo pursued; it Is not tho last extreme of statesmanship, but tho breath of Its nostrils and the blood in its veins. Were General Bernhardt not a writer of au thority and power, wo should hesitate to suggest that his views are shared by any largo section of his countrymen; but General Bernhardl is widely road, and he is only one of many writers who, with more or less ability, adorn a similar theory. It is impossible that such arguments should be widely followed In any country without to some extent prejudicing the mental attitude of Its peoplo towards other powers, and General Bernhardl's efforts make It easier to realize why so many Germans should have credited 1 1) this country last autumn with treacherous and sinister designs. A belief In tho destinies of his own peoplo should make no patriot indifferent to the general consclenco of his time, and patriots who urgo such Indifference, as, tno secret of national strength must not be surprised to.seo their country's statesmanship an object of Increasing suspicion to other . pQwers.-Lpndon Times. v The "Pure Democracy" Delusion Government which comprises tho Initiative, referendum and recall of officials and of judicial decisions is government by impulse and caprice. Romo's pleblscltum was tho initiative In Its essential form, while the recall is tho ostracism of Athens under a now name. Both worked badly and were ritRnnrriml. TIrwlr mnrlnrn nnnrllHnna nml In n ircnnf nn.tn.. im, i, tt-u.i m ' - .... u ... M b, vuv imuuu llivu luu U1J11UU I States they would work worso than they did In tho countries In which thov were invented. In a crude but effective way the initiative and recall had their little chagrined at an error which was mado not. In tliA Star Innf 'nljrlil on, V... .l,ll. O ' " H uj II .111. 11 GEORGE INGLE 1 boxed five I was mado to compliment tho man rounds with Young Caples last night.1 agement of Y0 Liberty Theater on tho It was the first tlmo that I over had showing made by tho Juvenile Bos tho gloves on with him and ho cor-, tonlans. What I desired to commend tainly has an awful wallop. I bellevo in my letter was Homer's Odyssey that ho could beat do Mello. I and not tho lec show. Klnrtiv JOHNNY MARTIN I used to play rect - v" uo u. uoy ana waa. u HUTCHINSON It Is often very ionu of tho game. I remember asked why white women complain of that I it a ball once which broke a this climate and foel that a. trip to pane of glass In an 'ot 'ouse. and 'ad the north is required after a lenuthv ""w-uuu-mi-pence or tne dam- resiaenco here. A now thporv hn neen advanced, ono that Is apparently I in i i ii i IH i i i li HI a il l I I 'i II III 1 1 II i ill Hi i i Hi "YoungMan"Styl Smart and Snappy All sorts of stylis snapes in tne n Crossetts. Models gun metal, black. or patent; in button lace: with scallops perforation. Fit foot snugly: give height of comfoi Look them over. $4 to $6 everywhere Lewi A. Croiiett, Inc., Maker North Abington, Mum. age I done, DEPUTY-ATTORNEY GENERA SMITH Wo are at present straighten ing out tho Frog Lano tangle which has occupied the attention of the lega department for some time, but It wll not bo long now beforo everything i arranged to tho satisfaction of all par tlrt. LANI MAGOON Tho Hughes Come borne out by tho excellent health en. Joyed by some of our lady residents. It is that those peoplo who live in stono houses are vigorous, ruddy an enjoy tho best of health. Per contra those who rcsldo in BO-called woodei or frame houses aro tho persons who must seek a colder climate at Inter vals. Under The Coconut Tree By H. M. Ayres. Male sex, In answer to numerous Inquiries we take pleasure in stating that the mays smoklng-jacket taffled at the May Peto last Saturday night wai won by Chris Lewis. P I fa fine weather, as tho judge rc- r.inrKed wiien he lmp.i&ud a Doaalt'' of $25 and costs for somo offouso or other. SO Lanrornia has certainly got a firm friend In S. T. Starrett There aro three sexes female sex and Insects. 3 How's this for an ad?: HONOLULU IS GROWING. , .".Thjp establishment will move soon (6 .larger ijua'rters at tho corner of King and Punchbowl ttreels'1 ts Honolulu a cometory1? ' Dlmond & Co. ought to have a crack erjack baseball team. (Betcher eaa't tell why!) Tho rhinoceros bettle Is the latest coconut pst to bo discovered. Wo await with Impatience tho advent In tho cano of tho hippopotamus-hopper. Editor "It seems to mo that there wero unlimited possibilities in that fish story which camo across from Hana tho other day, t 0 E3 immoimmmmmmmoiotvimetmmoim Reporter Yes, indeed. I am sur prised that the miraculous draught of nsnea wasn't reported to bo infected with the frultfly. Editor Quito probable, if tho fish were flying-flsh. Reporter I still llvo In hopes ' 6t hearing that there haa been a storm In Hana which blew tho roofs oft all the houses nnd that tho latter wero re chingled with dried fish. By tho way what's tho matter with hanging a few of thoso Hana fish on tho Coconut Tree to dry? Editor Nothing at all tho matter, that's a dry place. , Reporter So It the .writer. And then the band played that tune- rui selection, "Tho Hint .That Didn't Took." Makes iLife's IWalk lEas mmmme immm mmm wtmme 6S I liMiiK! 3w m mmrnsrri9n in I I W V I tan I Y ? or mam i , i and m US 'I'll i 9 9 9 a We Deliver the Goods 37 CASES OF CrossettXButton Boots and Oxfords Just Received. 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