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Delayed correspondence last week told of Explorer-Senator Bingham's behavior on the August evening that he dined with Governor Wallace Rider Farrington and a distinguished gathering at Washington Place, the governor's mansion...
...quota system of immigration would eventually be extended to peoples of Asiatic countries. Sessions of the conference were to continue until July 29. The Pacific Institute can discuss conditions, deplore evils, suggest remedies; meanwhile the man who holds official authority and responsibility for Hawaiian affairs is Governor Wallace Rider Farrington. Governor (by appointment of President Harding) since July 5, 1921, he has been, is and will be concerned chiefly with one major "problem" the Japanese question. For while the Hawaiian Islands are called Hawaiian on the maps and in the histories, the original Hawaiian stock constitutes less than...
...Only organized capital," Governor Farrington, has said, "could have furnished progress at so rapid a pace. . . . They [the "first families" discussed above] own or operate nearly all the valuable lands. Will the time come when these large holdings will have to break up under the pressure of a growing population? No one can look that far into the future...
...Japanese question, plus the general situation of the rule of the few by the many that has prevented Hawaiians from realizing their dream of becoming the 49th state. Governor Farrington has been accused of insincerity in telling schoolchildren that statehood can be best achieved by their growing up as "good American citizens." To this charge, however, the Governor replies that "the very fact that statehood is absolutely out of the question at the present time is so much more reason why we should aspire to it the harder." As for the race question, the Governor has said: "There is less...
...Governor Farrington was born in Orono, Me., in 1871. After having been a reporter on various Maine newspapers, he became one of the founders and managing editor of the Rockland (Me.) Daily Star. In 1894 he went to Hawaii as managing editor of the Pacific Commercial Advertiser, Honolulu. He served on the Territorial Board of Education and in the Republican Territorial Commission (1906-07). While Pacific Institute delegates met at Honolulu, Kilauea (largest active volcano in the world) erupted, flooded its eight-mile-around crater with molten lava. Visitors from Hilo (30 miles away) were driven back from the crater...