The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-01
MASS MEETING.
ID. L. Huntsman Gives a Few
Points on Hawaiian His
tory.

benefit the speeches were interpreted
INTO English by Hon. J. E. Bush.
Not small number of the audience
were women.
Hon. w. White of Lahaina was the
first speaker. He urged his hearers
to live in peace and harmony, and
ever to uphold the throne of Hawaii.
It was not possible to gather any
grains of sense from the rest of his
speech.
Messrs. Kapono and Mossman fol-
lowed Hon. Mr.. White.
Captain J. Ross appeared on the
rostrum and said: l do not stand
here to ask any favor of you nor to
deceive you. am not a stranger to
you. have lived among you during
the past nineteen years, and have
traversed the length and breadth of
your land, more perhaps than most
of you have done. am a foreigner,
but differ from most foreigners in
this respect: my love for Hawaii is
not bounded by Honolulu alone; no,
Hawaiian territory extends further
than Honolulu. To-day is the ami
versary of the restoration of your flag,
not independence day. You never
lost your independence, so you had
none to gain. The average foreigner
forgets that this is your land and not
his. He is here by your sufferance.
I have been asked why 1 affiliate
with the mechanics and with Mr..
Bush. 1 replied that is my privilege
as a free man, and not slave to the
wealthy class. You perhaps forget
that / first arrived here wearing the
uniform of the Republic of America,
a republic which for four years and a
half fought to give men and the
world liberty. / have been through
out the civilized and uncivilized
world, but Honolulu is the only place
where to be poor is sin, and to be dis
honest. In other countries it is an
honor to be honest and not dishOnOr
to be poor. L wish to tell you that
your liberty is being plotted against
by men under the garb of religion.
In recent number of the Review of
Reviews, a magazine published in
London, there appeared an article
stating that you are ready to forfeit
your liberty, and that four-fifths of
the sugar industry of the kingdom is
owned by Americans. A Christian
gentleman is the author of this, and
he lies when he said so. This is only
a financial bait, as it were, to catch
Uncle Sans purse, and the bait on
the hook is PuulOa. The supposition
is that he was paid for writing that
article. / have been reproached for
siding with Mr.. Bush, because they
say, Mr.. Bush is too smart and yet
he is poor.
Hon. Jos. Nawahi opened his re-
marks by making a wholesale accusa-
ton against the educated class of Ha-
waiians, because he believes that they
are much to blame for the present
political crisis among Hawaiians. He
said: The educated Hawaiians are the
source of all your troubles. They seek
a higher education, but they make
use of it by ensnaring your votes.
They think only of their welfare, and
leave the masses to hew their paths
for themselves. 1t is mainly this
utterly selfish policy of Hawaiians
that has brought us to our present
unpleasant situation. We have never
reaped the benefits of their education.
The Hawaiians are killing them
selves. I would rather it had been
the work of foreigners. It were better
that such renegade Hawaiians had
been wiped out of existence. Their
carcasses are proper meat for the
sharks.
Mr.. Bush next introduced Mr.. D.
L. Huntsman, the following being a
synopsis of his remarks: I do not
come here to f1atter you. I do not
have high opinion of the masses in
| have come to instruct you
of your powers. 1 see many things in
this country that are disgraceful. [
see many things that would not be if
the people were free and intelligent.
/ wish to call attention to things in
America which you need here. 1 call
your attention to what America has
done for you and is willing to do for
this country. Kamehameha I. was
no doubt q great warrior, but his
giving the country to England was a
great mistake. He taught men to
kill; that was a sin. 1t is better for
people to live together in peace than
for the poor to fight against each
other. The only thing Great Britain
would do is to absorb you as she had
done to many small countries. It is
her boast that the sun never sets. on
British soil. It was an error for
Kamehameha to give your country
to England. You would have per-
haps thought that it was the
generosity and magnanimity of Great
Britain and France to restore indie
pendence to you. No! It was Uncle
Sam that rose and said to them: You
must keep your hands off those peo-
pie. It was the United States that
gave Hawaii her freedom. She is
doing the same thing to small South
republics. If it were not
for our country other powers would
come and absorb them. The United
States was the first to throw away
and make the people rule
themselves. Mr.. Huntsman then
said that the tendency of having q
princess educated in Eng |
land is to Undue her with a British
spirit, and, as a consequence, it will |
make her an English Queen in re-
atty. Tt was due to the faults of |
your chiefs and kings that you are
mere handful to-day. The first great |
the kings made was the |
away of all their gods and |
believing the missionaries. The last |
made was that made by King
He signed the treaty |
which filled the country with Chi |
nese. The natives thereby We're made |
poorer and the foreigners enriched.
You'll be lost if you put your trust in
the missionaries.
After an address by r. w. Wilcox,