The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-07-03
THE REFORM PARTY
Hold n Mass Meeting at the Rides
ArutDry.


4 very considerable gathering of |
voters came together at the Rifles
Armory yesterday evening to rasify |
the nomination OF Mr.. Young. MIR. |
T. G.. Porter was chairman and Capt. |
J. H. Fisher secretary.
Dir. w. G. Wilder was the first |
speaker. He was glad MIR. Young
was nominated, and believed he would |
be elected In the interests OF good |
government and progress in Hawaii |
they would never be sorry if MIR.
Young was elected.
Mr.. Alex. Young, who was received
with loud applause, said: l am glad to
be before you tonight to speak few
words to my fellow mechanics. But
first, thank you for my nomination, land
say that if should have the good fortune
to be elected will try to serve you-not
being a politician but only mechanic
as well as / have the Iron Works Co.
Gentlemen, | was looking for my enc
mics but | see only friends. My attention
was called to an article in the Elele. 1t
was my character, and [ tell you, gentle
men, if had known | was such bad
man l could never have been tempted to
receive a nomination | question, and
some OF you may decide it, whether
can represent the mechanics or not /
came here as journeyman and worked
long and hard as a journeyman. l sue
ceeded at last in getting up out of the
ranks, which L think is the desire OF
every honest, deserving mechanic. There
is no want that the workingman knows,
that don't know, and often enough was
/ unwilling to meet the butcher or baker
because could hardly find the money
| to pay them. have noticed objections
| to myself as a candidate. They say l
am rich. If owning plantation stock is
wealth they may be right, but | main
tain that before long, the man with the
most plantation stock, will be the poor
est man IN the country. | have a word
of comfort for these and that is perhaps
| owe more than all the people IN the
House put together. Another objection
is, | am not married to Hawaiian l
cannot help that as there were none in
the country where | was married.
| Laughter.) 1t is said that would food
the country with Chinese deny that
and defy any one to bring a grain of
proof in word or deed for 1t. (Applause.)
/ have conducted the Iron Works for
twenty years, aud have had sometimes
more and sometimes less laborers At
present there are about 200. Long be-
fore there was any Chinese question,
Chinese merchants have pleaded with me
to take in some Chinese friend. l said no.
| warned years ago, white carpenters
and mechanics who were employing
Chinese, against it, and have told them
what they were coming to, and now those
are the men who point the finger of
scorn at me and say: There is the man
who wants to flood the country with
Chinese" They say, you talk finely,
MIR. Capitalist Young but you can't get
Cinnamon to do your work. That is a
lie. There are hundred Hawaiians in
our shop who could be replaced by
Chinese. / have been abused .on this
) Chinese question because | opposed Mr..
Kinney's bill in its original form, but as
it was amended voted against the in
| definite postponement of the bill. Now
gentlemen, our main industry is sugar
and we all agree that it cannot be grown
with white labor. Whom are we to get
There is no substitute for the Chinese
| don't say this because am favorel
of the Chinese. | will never have one
3 to work in my shops. When l bought s
5 controlling interest in Pepeekeo, dis
charged every Chinaman above the ranks
OF field laborer. Now, gentlemen,
q propose to show that the white mechan
les and the Hawaiian planters need each
:, other, and can't get along without eact
other. In a common sense view i
| 10 fl,o 70
!. | got my fingers burnt the other day
l. men to work as plantation laborers ant
f l said they would never do to work il
a the fields alongside of Cinnamon and
f said | would rather manage 5000 Chimes
e under those circumstances than 10
Scotchmen. Since then | have beef
branded as bad Scotchman. 9Th
Z speaker here told humorous story t
illustrate the relation of mutual Deepen
dence between mechanics and planters.
have mentioned this to show that
:, the mechanics are to prosper they mus
u let the planter have plantation labor.
,r am as anxious as anyone OF you, that n
6 Chinaman shall ever handle tool i
this country. Gentlemen, as action
is speak louder than words l accent m
re- words by my actions. 1t has also bee
\ stated that am being elected in orde
- to GUST the present ministry. That is,
a. don't know what to call it, it is not true
g l. have nothing to say against them.
" have known some of them ever since
~ came to the country, many from the
e. youth up. Mr.. Cumnins is lare
- hearted Hawaiian and good man an
~ q good representative of this race, pull
a1 lic-spirited man too. | will support
is Government that will he progressive
ne all that pertains to the best good of Ii
De people and that while progressive, will /
I'd sufficiently conservative to avoid launci
of ing the country into further needless deb
A Government that will without fear
favor administer the laws of the Kin
dom as they exist and that will seek
introduce such further legislation
90 may be still required for the better go
p eminent of His Majesty's subjec
IL throughout the realm. a Governmel
ed that will SO far as may be within i
70 power, foster, protect, and seek by Il
introduction of suitable labor, and othe
no wise to develop the main industries
ir, the Kingdom. A Government that W
la employ none but the most suitable al
10 competent persons to fill positions in
). its departments regardless of party al
- that will uphold the dignity, honor al
IL independence OF the Kingdom. Al
S., such do l sincerely trust, gentleme
IN; may prove to be the disposition al
IN, qualification of our present Cabinet, a.
l. 4. 4 Ia