The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1890-01-14

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things as is patent in their first efforts at
formulating a platform on which as
principles they were going to work for
the election of men to the Legislature /;
then came the joining hands with a
party radically opposed to them, and
finally the coming out on a platform that
as was said this evening is a stolen
thing. 1t is stolen, every article that
there is in it, every section. Almost
line for line and word for word is what
the Reform party would give this COM
munity any day and every day. What
we have to look to in Honolulu is that
representation which from our own
negligence in the past We have denied
ourselves. l say it is from our own
negligence, because we allowed others
to represent us, men that had not the
ability to act for US; not because they
did not want to, but because their ideas
and their training have been in different
lines from ours. We cannot feel grieved
at the action they took, we can only say
that they have done their best and hav-
ling done so we will try the thing our
selves. If the mechanics and working
men and retail merchants of Honolulu
| permit this election to go by without
representation of their interests they
| have no one to blame but themselves,
and if they expect to get honest repre-
sentation through the party that has put
its nominees in the field, they are
grandly left, grandly left. Naughter).
| Who among the nominees on that plat
form are the friends Of the workingmen,
who? There is only one truly representa-
| tive mechanic on it and one retail man
in this community, boy that is loved
by everybody, and God only knows what
reason he has got to stand on that plat
form, Mr.. Mccarthy, he has got no
| business there, because he cannot pos
sibly affiliate with that class.
Gentlemen, what we need to-day is
| government on the lines that we have
had tried in the last two years, barring
that We in our progress have got to
| adopt new rules for our guidance to-day
and in the future, as for the next two
years we stand on issues that were I'M
known when the Reform party came in
power. We did not dream at that time
of the rapid onward march of Chinese
| aggression nor of their influence on trade
and our industries in this city. We had
no such ideas and consequently at that
| time the measure was left out of the
platform; it was afterwards introduced
and the regular nominee OF the party
was elected, thereon thus showing that
the sentiment of the party at that time
was anti Chinese. 1t is to be presumed
| that that sentiment has strengthened in
| the eighteen months that have elapsed
since then, and for that reason we
| would have right to expect that the
| party in convention will in the
near future adopt a plank that is
| if not stronger, at least as strong,
as the plank that was in the last plat
form; we hope that we may have one
that is stronger and more defined. The
great issue at the present time is the re-
striction of Chinese to the actual places
where they are needed to advance the
progress of the community in a civilized
form of government for civilized race.
(Applause.) believe the time is past
when the Government needs to support
Chinese in any way, shape or form.
believe the time has come when the
Government needs to strengthen itself
by every means in its power, advancing
the interests of the people in these
islands. Home industry should be their
tries that will afford an opportunity for
earning an honest livelihood. Take the
illustrations that are amongst us in this
community to-day and do away with the
Chinese coffee shops that are ruiningt the
whole country. The most baneful inhu-
ence among our societies is the Chinese
coffee shop, and don't you forget it,
(Applause.) We have bills to claim the
attention of our legislators. We need in
this country national policy that will
be strictly pursued, that will give to the
people-the native Hawaiians, the
Hawaiian born and the resident taxpay-
ers-thelr sole government. | do not
believe in delegating to any foreign per-
son, not fully identified with the COM
munity, the reins of government in any
department of this reform policy. 1t is
against principle, it is what we in our
own countries never would consent to,
and here in Hawaii we should not up
hold it. 1t is right that We should main
tain good government in the country. |
think that the unhappy state that we
have been in for the past two years has
been greatly induced by too great leni-
ency toward foreign element that might |
just as we'll have been out of politics as in. |
| think, to understand the real needs of |
the Hawaiian race and of the community |
at large, man needs to go through |
period OF probation among US and learn |
our necessities and requirements, after |
that he is qualified to act for US if we SO |
choose, and believe that is precaution |
due to every Hawaiian and foreigner |
alike. The need of the mechanics is to |
induce greater industry among us. We |
ought to have the tax on raw material |
abolished, so that the manufacturer here
could have an opportunity and at least
little show in competition with foreign |
manufactures. At the present time for
eign manufactures and raw materials |
come in under like tax and in every case
where the raw material is free the prod
uct from that raw material is also free,
and that needs amending.
There has been good deal of talk in
the past few months OF cession to the
United States and of a protectorate and
all that sort of thing. What we,
as Hawaiians, need protection for
is for our home industries to that
extent that the Legislature see that there
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