The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-01-03
FOURTH WARD Glu8.
Tho speeches Delivered et tho Or
sanlGatiOu.

W. \. Kinney, on being called,
said: Mr.. Chairman and gentlemen
The fact that | am here means that
intend to vote the Reform ticket
and vote it straight (applause). |
do not believe in this going into Il
ward meeting or into convention
to try to get all you can out Of it
and when you get beaten back out
and say that you will not abide the
verdict; when anybody goes into n
ward meeting, or goes into con-
vention, he goes in to stand or fall
on whatever conclusions that CON
vention or ward meeting comes to
(applause). There are a lot of vot-
ers that say that any man that will
do this does not do his own think
ing, and it is - sign OF independence
to scratch tickets and bolt ticket
at your pleasure, but / don't think
so; think it is sign really of
strength, to submit to the will of the
majority. More can be secured that
way than by every man going as he
pleases. Still | have my reasons for
voting the Reform ticket, and can
give them. vote for the Reform
party not so much for what the Re-
form party has already accomplish
ed, but more on account Of the hos
tility that the Reform party has
aroused among certain classes Of
people on these islands; like GER
tain American politician, | love the
Reform party for the enemies it has
made (applause) by that mean this,
that there are certain classes ofpeople
in every community onGod's footstool
and have been from time immemorlal
who believe in some shape or other
that the many were made to serve the
few, and this country is no excep-
ton to it. In England you know the
old Tory idea, and it is not dead
yet, was that the people should be
kept down kept in their places"
and that the caste and privileges Of
the few should be exalted. One or
two hundred years ago such people
had things pretty much their own
way, but times now are differ
cnt, the people are more and
more getting a grip on the
countries in which they live: that
Is manifest in England; but
at the same time the same old spirit
is there, which would keep the peo-
pie down if there was any way to
do it. In the United States they
don't have kings and privileged
classes, yet that same idea is there.
Take, for instance, G. T.. Hunting
ton, that railroad magnate, that
Chinese anti-restriction man, he is
now demanding more Of what he
calls "docile labor" in the United
States; he says he wants labor that
won't join unions and make strikes
he wants labor that will submit.
Now that simply me ans that If tina,
man could have his will, in tina,
country he would get labor by the
hip and keep it there; and he has
his counterpart here at the Islands
There is that man trying to break
up the restriction act and 10 shove
in Asiatics on that fair land, in upor
civilized men and families; not be
cause he is poor, he has got money
enough to keep himself and a
daughter that married prince tc
the end of time; what leads him to
do what he is doing is an itch to gel
white labor into corner where hi
and his kind can name terms. The
same spirit exists in this country
you all can see it; we saw it here il
the old regime. What was that ole
regime? Why, it amounted simply
to this, there was the King and {
certain number of men around hin
that carried out the doctrine that th'
country and people were made TO
their delectation and they carried il
too far; if they had not they woulc
have had things running their owl
way to-day; and it is because
/ believe that this Reform
party is the only party in the coun
try through which there is any hope
of breaking this thing down that
believe in holding to the party, no
but that there is a great deal of tn
same feeling in many branches o
the Reform party. That spirit ha
been displayed more or less in tn
Reform government itself, but n
the same time the Reform party i
moving towards the people and no
from them (applause). There al
ways is reaction against a move
ment such as was started by thu
Reform party. That is to be ex
pected. The reaction comes from
two classes-one that don't want Il
see the people have the power tina
they got from this revolution AM
another that is so radical that i
would upset this Reform party be
cause it does not move fast enough
The Opposition ticket is not in tn,
field yet, l have not seen it, bu
when that ticket comes out | fee
certain that you will find on tn
same ticket two classes of men, mel
who WOull take away from us tn