Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume X, Number 7, 18 February 1937 — WE EXPLAIN OUR VENTURE [ARTICLE]

WE EXPLAIN OUR VENTURE

THE HAWAiI AMEEIOAN makes its first appearance this week as the English Section of KE ALAKAI O HAWAII, lafgest Hawaiian paper in the Territory. We are pledged to preaching the gospel of Democracy, and more the New Deal philosophy of Fresident Franklin D. Roosevelt because of the manifold benefits that have accrued to the nation as a whole and Hawaii in partic ; ular. First» last and all the time, we believe—aad sha!l preach —t h e principies of Democracy, because we feel, with good reason, that the major portion of our population—the eommon man, "the forgotten man" —- fares far better under a Democratic administration—nationa! t Territorial, county or munieipal— than it does under a Republican regime. This has been proved in the past under such leaders as Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Grover Cleveland ahd Woodrow Wilson. It is being proven on all hands today under President Franklin D. Roofipvelt. We have felt for a long time that tne Democratic party in Hawaii should have some medium of publicity through whieh we could appeal to the citizens of this Teiritory— to present to them our gospel, our principles and aims. It is a well-known fact that the vast majority of the press in Hawaii has been rabidly Republican for 10, these many years. We ean hardly expect them to give us the same publicity, the same opportun'ty to appeal to the people and to present our case to them } as they give the Republiean party, whieh is owned and controlled by the same vested interests—the same <! Princes of Privilege"—that own and control most of the press of Hawaii. | We have no interest in the petty squabbles—the sense!ess argumertts—that arise from time to tirne among various cliques or factions of the Democratic party in Hawaii! They fight, we guess, because they ARE Democrats-—and the Democratic party is never satisfied to believe in the existlng order of things— they always wani to change them for the better—and chiefly for the better of the eommon man, "the poor that ye shal! have with you always**—"the forgotten m&n." Hiat has been proved by th e benefit» that , ha.ve accrued to Ihe ma&s of ou.r population under the ! &dministrations of those great Democratic Presidents whom v;e have mentioned. Consequently, with slight hope o£ profit, an<j the hope that we may be able to obtain sufficient support—both in subscriptions and advertising—-to enable us to "break even s " we have launched this venture.