Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1884-02-09

been subscribed To- secure the election
ol J. q. Cater The merchants ol
Honolulu could have spared that sum
tu secure the boon of mt,lli. cnt rcIrc
scpmuon The, may have to Iay thit
sum IN increased taxation before the
next election
But not alone IN subscribing Jo
,ampltln fund, have the whites ot
ltunrlum been dyt,li,t They have
R'cd t1 avail thrm,elNc, ut the nppot
wutc W ,luIcnshlp, ot to assume the
.Dl lmc.,wc ul duty and rcspun,ihtlti,
which D,luur, to every resident ot
.,,.N land IN utc, Nlll, Section
'Ita or the Hawaiian Civil Code
.tht form tor the ol,h at allrl
lance is given d, follow, "tbc
undersigned. JuJt.NC 10 lately
|,ldng iu being duN sworn,
iupuu his oath, declares that be will
uppor the tpn,utuuUn and law, oi
/ lhc Uavninn Islands. and bear true
allegiance TO hi, majesty, the
king In Section SO ct the same ar
|tltlc occurs the following language
Every foreigner 80 nlurali5cd shall
be deemed to Jll intynts and purposes
a native ut the Hawaiian Islands. hr
amcuahle only the law, of TIN, king
dom. and To th, authority and control
/ thereof, be entitled to the protection
of said laws, and he no longer amen
able to his native sovereign, while re.
siding IN thu. kingdom F
VIM, Ic,iGiaC ~ Mh kingdom This
clearly means, If 1t means anything,
that one does not lose his citizenship
Uf his parent country los taking ON
! citizenship here Hut even il men
do lose their home citizenship and
must bc naturaliacd again in order to
regain it, the claims OF thi, country arc
paramount -
Let us consider the ease OF those
merchants To whom the real good OF
the country makes no strong appeal
Enlightened selfin,crest must teach
them that in the long run, honesty
does pay among merchants, Law
makers, and the executors OF law. En-
| lightcncd stli.intcrcst advised every
man in Honolulu to vote for J. O.
Garter, yet he lost several hundred
votes because merchants, clerks ant
artisans who, might have voted, ii zen
, ! lightcncd sclfintcrcSt had been con
, suited, acJc mt RGiNyaii-cG II all The
naturallgcd whites in town had votct
for Mr.. Carter he would still have
lacked 4 majority If all the white.
entitled to citizenship had voted fo
him he would have either been elected
or So nearly elected, that the mora
victory would have carried consterna
lion into the ranks of wrong-do.ng II
every Crcvlcc OF the kingdom Btu
! is not that preaching race prejudice. .
! MOI 1t is preaching selfpreseryation
/ There are, in Honolulu, a handful o
+ wealthy merchants, double handful o
! wcll-to-do middle men and retailers
and number of men in various dc
/, Ipartments of wholesale and retail trade
who are struggling hard for a living
, Many of these men ATE Hawaiians b.
$ adoption, few are here ITO make
j stake and so home to enjoy it, Thes
men need to be fully and fairly re
t presented in any body that shall max
J Laws for their governance and for tn
control of their property, In the natur
of things some one OF their own rae
at least OF their own class ough, {,
% be sent to represent them. Does an,
1 sensible white man believe that tn
candidates elect tor Honolulu ar
i capable Of understanding tae me-
camille, the sanitary, the municip;
. needs of Honolulu