The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-21

single family whom Ashford has
brought in-of a single thing which
would not have existed if he had not
been here? | leave that to you. If /
you want politics, run back for five
years you won't find any political /
rumpus in which Ashford did not /
figure, no matter on what side. If il |
is creative energy you want-a man |
who builds up industries-there is |
not one in this country who de- |
serves more than 3. +. Dillingham;.
There was a mud swamp near the
Prison, desert at Kahuku and EVA:
Now there are wharves, warehouses,
and plantations, a town being built
up, fruit industries started, bringing
imports which have paid taxes, bene-
fitting everybody from Hawaii to
Kauai. If the day comes when the
question of a republic is forced on
your attention you may consider
whether G.. w. Ashford is the best
man. He is a lawyer and used to
drawing instruments, but now you
want business man and not a poll
tical talker. / have faith to believe
that the man who could conceive that
railway and that town and those
plantations, who with comparatively
little money could push all that
through, is the man who can find
way out Of our difficulties, that is the
kind of man want to tie up to. Bob
Wilcox is q good man in his way,
Bipikane makes good express
driver and good neighbor, but they
are not the men to consult in imam
cial crisis. Therefore, | say again,
think. When man comes and tells
you he loves you don't listen to his
mouth only. Look at his record and
see what he has done. If you go to the
polls and think [ have no hesitation
in believing you will cast your
votes for B. F. Dillingham;. APP
plausel.
Mr.. DILLINGHAM; Gentlemen, [
would apologize for what Mr.. Thurs
ton had said about me if | had not seen
that modesty in politics is at a discount
in this country. L have been invited
by a number of the representative
men of your nationality to address
the Portuguese voters of the Third
Ward, and [ am proud to be honOred
with the presence of so many as | see
before me this evening. First let me
say to you that [ am not here as
candidate for Representative from my
own choice or seeking. [ had been
asked to run and refused several
times, when, finally, l was made to
feel it my duty TO this country that /
allow my name to be used by the Ma
tive Sons of Hawaii as their nominee
for this district. There are quite large
number of your country who know
me, and who worked with me in
building the first nineteen miles Of
railway on this island, so it is quite
useless for anyone to tell you that |
am not friend of the working man;
you know that l am myself work
ing man. When we were building the
line at the rate of q half mile day,
and were sometimes short handed, L
stepped into the missing mans place
and handled rails and ties with you,
and thus it is that q bond of SYM
pathy and goodwill exists between
us, though not understood by those
who have never laid the ties that
bind us together. No seeker after
your votes can make you believe that
I am narroW-minded bigOt who
would hire no man unless he was q
Protestant, though he should tell you
so hundred times day, simply be-
cause YOU know better, though you
are too polite to tell the man who
says so, that he lies. In 1876 we
secured with the United States q
treaty of reciprocity or an agreement
to exchange certain articles of COM
merce, so that they entered the mar
ket of each country free from the
usual charge or tax, called duty. The
advantage to this country was very
great as figures show. In 1876 we sold
to America and other countries about
81, 1000, 600; last year we sold $l6,0OO,-
000 During the fifteen years we sold
500, 900, 900, more than we probably
would have done if we bad not made
the treaty. If this treaty had not been
| made land there were those at that
time who were opposed to the treaty,
as there are now, you who have come
| to this country and have done we'll,
| would not be here now. The whole
country was lifted high upon the very
crest of the wave of prosperity;
money flowed into the country to be
| invested in sugar and rice culture; all
| values advanced, taxes increased and
| Custom House receipts grew in vol
ume rapidly. Large amounts OF
money were voted by the Legislature
| to be used for the encouragement of
| immigration, and thus many of you
were assisted to come to these shores.
| All went well until two years ago.
| We were notified that an effort would
| be made in the Legislative Councils
| of America to make sugar free in that
| country; not only from this country,
which then had the monopoly of q
| free market there, but her market was
to become free to all sugar countries,
| for time, and to be continued so
under certain conditions. We had q
good representative at Washington in
! the person of the late H. a. p. Carter,
and he so represented our situation to
| the leading statesmen in that great
] country that they devised plan in
| which they hoped to save us from the
| great disaster which threatened to
| swallow us up. So new treaty for
| free trade was planned, through
| which, if cOnsummated, this country
was to have all the advantages.
| We were to remain free and indepen-
| dent to make our own laws, and con-
| duct our own affairs in our own way so
long as we could maintain good order
and good government; and, in eX-
change for this, this nation was re-
quired to grant to America the free
and exclusive use of Pearl Harbor
until such time as both nations should
agree to cancel that treaty. This pro-
| position implied q possible net income
to this country of S5,000,000 a year !;
| and it would have given every poor
man in the country a chance to Guilt
vate and can fruits, anindustry which
sound-thinking men believe would
grow into a business of great import
~ IF n IF