The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1890-01-08

no possible opportunity for discus
sion, and the only recourse for anyone
that had any selt-rcspeGt a. / thought
was to resign and that Is what L did. |
had previously signed my name 10 the
| roll with the idea that it would eminate
in something good and that IS what it
amounted to. Then came the greatest
political somersault that we ever read or
have known of in modern times. No
nation under the sun IN the last hun
dred years can show such a condition OF
| 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 OH d platform that
as was said this evening is 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. | say il 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 nav
ing done SO We will try the thing our
selves. Ii the mechanics and working
| men and retail merchants OF Honolulu
permit this election to 90 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. Laughter).
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 le 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
would have right to expect that the
near future adopt plank that is
| 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.) l 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
chief aim, the building up of new indus
tries that will afford an opportunity fol
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 ruiningth
whole country. The most baneful influ.
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 viii
be strictly pursued, that will give to the
people-the native Hawaiians, the
Hawaiian born and the resident taxpay
ers-thelr sole government. l do no
believe in delegatlng to any foreign per
son. not fully identified with the com
munitv, the reins of government in an,
department of this reform policy. 1t il
against principle, it is what We in ou
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 W,
have been in for the past two years ha
been greatly induced by too great leni
ency toward foreign element that Nigh
, Just as well have been out OF politics as in
= | think, to understand the real needs G
! the Hawaiian race and of the communit
: at large, man needs to 60 through
r period of probation among us and lear
, | our necessities and requirements, ate
that he is qualified to act for US if we S
: choose, and l believe that is a precautio
: due to every Hawaiian and foreigne
& alike The need of the mechanics is [
g. induce greater industry among us. W
O ! ought to have the tax on raw materi:
. abolished, so that the manufacturer hel
! could have an opportunity and at least
f little show in competition with foreig
: manufactures. AT the present time 10
= eign manufactures and raw materia
y come in under like tax and in every Cas-
q where the raw material is free the pros
! uct from that raw material is also ire
q and that needs amending.
!. There has been a good deal of talk
, the past few months of cession to IL
II United States and of a protectorate ar
l. all that sort of thing. What W
t. as Hawaiians, need protection f
d is for our home industries to tn
e extent that the Legislature see that the
e is Il proper clause placed IN the recipr
e city treaty with the United States ALLOW
Is ing all manufactures and all products
1t these islands to enter into the Unite
A. States duty free. That would develc
re small industries in the way OF cannil
ST fruits and kindred concerns: that Won