The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1889-12-16
the ADVERTISERS POLITICS.

puDllC laJely, nO lnJelllReHJ man, NC
lie Portuguese, native, or English,
would take much stock in. 1t sounds
considerably like the way q lawyer
talks when he is paid to prove that
black is white. Boiled down, there
is the underlying sentiment which a
noble of the 10Th century would ex-
press to keep his henchmen in con-
troll. This is backed up by the
statement that 900 Chinese editors
of the Pekin Gazette have been be-
headed. just their luck not to
have been at work for the Hawaiian
Gazette. How dangerous those
two political planks are, and how
strange that Col. Hoapili Baker
should be member of that com
mittee! Any honest sentiment seems
to he dangerous to them now, and
any man unless he be tool of their
party is to be condemned. We hope
that IIo Fon conducts his paper on
q better principle than this.
Make another break, Advertiser,
and see if you can't do better. 1t
will take two bottles of gin at least
to buy votes at the coming elections,
and as that Is your heaviest card
you will do better to rely on it in
| preference to the kind of essays you
are treating the public with on the
voting privilege, etc.
They make the cold statement,
"Nothing could be more mistaken
than to suppose that the qualifica-
ton for-election for Mobiles is mere
property qualification" Oh! itaint!
1t is something else, and that is why
you don't want it abolished. Even
was it not well known that the p.
c. A. is the outspoken organ of the
planter, capitalist, ringman, Gov
eminent tool, etc., anything but a
friend to the mechanic, worklngman
or small capitalist, still their long
winded argument would not wash.
What is the use of Boosting about
the advantages qualification vote
gives the small property holders
and mechanics, when, as an actual
fact, necessity has driven and is
driving them out of the country. 1t
is the chance for mechanics to earn
enough in this country to vote for a
Noble; it is the chance for the
workingman to take care of his
family and get together that SO, 900
worth of property that they are
striving for.
A sugar trust in the States is not
to be compared with the manner in
which even petty enterprises down
to butcher shop are run by COM
bination of wealthy men of the coun-
try. Are the mechanics and work
ingmen of Honolulu going to wait
for these men to interfere with their
own profits? No; the only power
capable of curtailing them is the
Government, we must have men at
the head of the Government not of
their kin, we must have Mobiles that
will favor the mechanic and work
ingman and small enterprises. TO
accomplish this we must have all
the votes we can control at tile polls.
Many of you have worked on the
plantations and seen the gangs of
laborers of all nationalities marched
to the polls and poll their vote &C
cording to the dictation of the plan.
tation owner.
1t is sometimes the case that Mr.
Mechanic is discharged the next day
because he would not vote the same
way or perhaps submit TO reduc
ton of wages because he had laugh,
some slave of the Board of Immi
grafton how to do well what he was
hired to do at full wages. And ther
we are told and expected TO believe
that the number of planters is 81
small that as voters they are of lit
J tie consequence and are completely
swamped at the ballot box by any
other class. If that was the case
there might not be the talk there i:
about abolishing the property quail
fication. But the contrary is TIT
case. 1t is either q deliberate mis-
, statement on the part of the Adver
tiser, or else the writer is very
ignorant about elections in Hawaii
Again they state, ''it takes brains
to make q good mechanic" One
chanic bows), land brains are en-
titled to power at the polls. 'Tha
is what the present constitution re
cognizes. Is there anything wrong
> about that?" The only thing wrong
about that is: if we understand Eng
lish correctly, in reading your new
constitution, that is just what you
don't allow and you don't propose
TO recognize brains at the polls. l
don't suit your sugar ideas. Money
is the standard you measure by, mo-
brains. Not satisfied with the I'M
paralleled success you have met will
, during the past few years, you rol
a nation of the cream of its voting
power, set aside the former Mobiles
of the land by birth without any con
sideration or compensation and with
, out the people having any voice in thu
| matter, and expect mechanics ant
workingmen and even the native II
! humbly allow you to practically die
safe at the polls with your plantation
0 labor whom we shall have for Mobiles
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