The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-04
in. S. Williams was called upon,

J. n. S. Williams was called upon,
and said: He came from country
where public officers were not elect
i've, viz, England. It was hard on
Cabinet Ministers to put men under
them over whom they had no con-
troll. To be fiat-footed, he was not in
favor of it, In America it kept the
whole country in a perpetual turmoil.
He was opposed to the change on two
grounds. First, on the ground of fair
play. 1t was not fair to the Cabinet,
as above stated. Second, on account
of the expense. The expense of rum
ming this country is enormous as it is.
The whole population is only equal
to that of fourth-rate city, and yet
the cost of running it was four or five
times as great. This proposition
would greatly increase expense.
J. Bowler was not in favor of elect
ing government officers by the people.
The proper thing was to elect the
legislature. The legislature, when
elected, went back on their cOnstitu-
ents, combined together on personal
grounds, and protected people in office
who were criminals. But if we elect
government officers, they will defy
their superiors and will GO in and
make ali they can out of it for two or
three years. When the officers of the
government had done anything wrong
the people should call on the legisla-
ture to do their duty, but not when
nothing was proved. 1t was not fair
to condemn men without hearing.
The working men must stick together.
We have q platform. Are we to keep
calling for new principles all the time?
The working men with families had
an interest in it. They should not be
driven out by the Monaghan. We
went into the battle conscientlously
two years ago, on the principle that
labor and capital must go hand in
hand. We wanted the planters to
have their labor, but it should be re-
stricted so as not to compete with the
foreigner and native born. Capltai
should be represented and should
have fair play, but they should not
accumulate immense fortunes ana go
abroad and spend them, to the detrl-
ment of the poor working men. Ihe
working men had rights which they
should exert with the ballot, not the
bayonet. He advocated those prlnc1-
pies four years ago, and repeated them
now. Let the natives have their
as long as Hawaiian
lives; let them have their rights and
keep their form of government. De-
fend it with their lives if necessary;
Mr.. O'Sullivan was nonplused by
the great oratory of Mr.. Bowler. lie
favored electing some officers, but not
the judiciary nor the Cabinet. Ii you
elected them you would have to do
away with the Queen, and that he
did not favor. But local officers
should be elected in the district, and
if they did not do good service they
keep their place long. He
would challenge Mr.. Williams to
name q greater or more successful
country than the United States under
Gods heaven. He said with Mr.;
long live the Hawaiians and
nav the flag float thousand years.
He did not like this CONSTITUTION.
Was never in favor of the Reform
Party. The poor native, true son OF
the soil, with perhaps $25 month,
could not vote for Mobiles, and
foreigner six months in the country,
earning 81 a day in the foundry,
could tell the native that he WASN'T
sin it.n Every honest man paying
his way had the same right as any