The Hawaiian gazette., 1891-11-24

The next speaker was Hon. r. w.
| Wilcox, who began as follows: In
Europe, knowledge or capacity is the
standard or qualification for voting,
and not the wealth a man possesses,
as in America and in this country.
Dear members of the Hui Kalaiaina,
be of one mind, and always work for
| the nations welfare. Vote only for
those whom you are certain will work
| for your interests, and have nothing
| to do with men of Peter the Greats
character. Both Hui Kalaiainas will
not gain victory if each put forward
its own candidates. Victory Is only
attained by united cooperation we
must have the same candidates, or
we must fall. We have immerged
from the days of barbarism. /
have been told that some members
of the Cabinet are already working
| for the coming election. What has
| the Cabinet done for the people?
s.They have been weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting" One of the
most sagacious of Hawaiian lawyers
had publicly stated that members of
the Cabinet ought never to be select
ed from siscabs,n they who have done
reign. Any monarch who persists in
doing so should be regarded as q
traitor. If this act had been per-
formed by any of the European rulers,
that monarch would have been re-
quired to abdicate the throne. Any
one who fiatters the Queen is an
enemy of the Queen. He is q verit-
able Judas Iscariot. say this because
/ love our Queen, and also because
she is the sister of our most progress
sive monarch-the one who had
raised Hawaii to be among the front
rank of civilized nations. Yet she
has persisted in appointing men to
Office who would not earn a single
ballot if left to canvas for themselves.
I have heard that the Marshal is
plotting against me. If this is the
truth, he will never see the sun in
| the eastern sky another day. If our
Sovereign appoint to responsible
office only the men the people want
and can trust, the throne of Hawaii
shall never be shaken.
Loud calls from the audience
brought the Hon. J. E. Bush forward.
The essence of his speech was as fol-
lows: L have received by the last
mail news from Washington that
would cause us to be jealous of our
rights. That hideous monster IAN
nexation) is being resurrected from
its grave. We are living here in re-
pose, but our death is being planned
afar. A new treaty is now being pre-
pared in a foreign country which had
been sanctioned by home authorities.
The Minister who originated it is now
dead. / had declared that he would
never again see the people whom he
sacrificed. My voice can never be
silenced. Another dragons tail in
the person of Mr.. Mott-Smith is now
at Washington perfecting another
treaty similar to the one we had pub
licly denounced as obnoxious at
mass meeting held in the Chinese
Theatre several years ago. We must
submit ourselves to the consequences
of the Mckinley tariff, and not make
another treaty. The lamentable con-
dition of the children of the poor
laborers will not be improved by it.
Only the wealthy classes will reap its
benefits. We must not permit such
underh nded work. One of the con-
ditions in the proposed new treatry is
to give away Puuloa pearl Harbor)
to America. King Lunalilo would
not consent to such transaction; he
said we lad no right to part with one
inch of Hawaiian territory. Jap
plause.1 The lands which Kameha-
meha III. gave our ancestors gra-
tuitously are now all in the hands of
cunning Spectators, and we are now,
as it were, on stills. One of our ablest
lawyers had said that even if the
treaty be perfected at Washington,
our Legislature had no power to
sanction it. What are we to do about
this? Let US show our bitter disap-
prevail of it in public. Only the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS will be benefited
by the treaty. Is it possible that any
man, by his own honest exertions,
could earn $1,000 day, as these cap
italists had reaped 1t is the sweat of
the poorly-paid laborer that has en-
riched him. When l was Governor
of Kauai, became acquainted with
the condition of the day-laborer, and
it grieves my heart to think of it. In
conclusion, let me say that know
that America will not take Puuloa
without the consent of the Hawaiians.
What a noble and magnanimous
country is America.
The other speakers of the evening
were Hons. j. Nawahi, ID. w. Pua,
and Kanealii, Captain j. Ross, and
Mr.. Kapono. Their remarks were
of somewhat milder nature, but,
nevertheless, received a share of
popular applause The meeting adj
iourned at late hour.
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