The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-05-20

be ever watchful The outsiders arc
admiring you because you are begin,
ming to work 10 set back your lost
rights. The Liberal party at the next
Legislature is only n small party, but
ii they unite they can battle the other
party. We want 10 expose now the
shortcomings of the individual MEM
herS Of the Cabinet before the i.egis-
lature meets. | regret that English
has been discontinued in our paper
Ia Leo. Our Minister 10 Washington
is trying Ia annex our land to Amer
tea. Now what right has the Cabinet
u do this without our knowledgtH
Why can't they make their tranSac-
lions public, - Wilcox and
l do" We are courageous.
Or. Smith is now catering the Amer
lean people about annexation. Now.
II they continue doing this without
consulting us first, let us make q
republic before we are annexed TO
America. Our Queen has been very
unjust 10 us. She has never recog-
niIed the rights of Hawaiians. She
reigns ut your will. | am President
of this association, but you have the
power 10 dismiss me il you are not
satisfied with me. You can do the
same with the Queen. Every free
man in this house tonight will agree
with the resolutions read The UNI
popular Government of to-day is do
ing more 10 undermine the throne OF
Hawaii than anything else.
Mr.. PUKILA; We have heard all
that our leaders have urged upon us
during all our meetings. We all
know that our administration To day
is very bad indeed. Ii we continue 10
remain under this "bayonet constitu-
ton" We shall always be termed an
ignorant race. Our Queen is favoring.
ignorant men. Now that is just the
very reverse of what she ought To do.
urge you to abide by the resolutions.
Be of one heart and let your deeds
show what you feel.
ID. l.. HUNTSMAN: Gentlemen.
came because | heard we are going to
be ''pulled inn tonight. / want TO
tell you about the hard times. The
foreign home papers say that times
are hard because sugar is down. The
real reason is because of the abomin-
able administration we have to-day.
Now, | observe, that in any country
where you have aristocracy, the COM
mon people are very poor; but where
wealth is equally distributed, there
the people are happy and prosperous
| tell you, gentlemen, that the accu-
mutation of wealth in the hands of
few is calamity. There are in
your country to-day, few men who
sucked the wealth of Hawaii, and
made you like beasts of the field.
Now, what is it that made these men
rich; it is the sugar industry. If
you were like men in other coun-
tries you would not be degraded
to-day. 1t is your own fault
that you have been degraded
In the northern part of the United
States the Indians use boards to de-
form their children's heads. Now if
the missionaries put boards on your
children's heads, you would have OBJ
jected; but the missionaries have
filled you with false doctrines First
they took your lands; next they in
troduced foreign immigration. and,
last of all, they brought in men to
shoot you down. 1t is an awful thing
| for the Queen to get ammunition to
/ kill her own people. Are you men,
! or are you children? Are you afraid
of the whip? There is no people in the
world that would stand what you
& ndNc OuI Ou
never do anything. l am an Ameri-
can. was born in republic, where
/ they can't tolerate such q thing "a
I your "noble vote" What happens 70
/ you depends on how much you will
stand. They have taken all; when
are you going to stand up and say,
/ halt? You have two hands;
buy q rifle; sell your pigs and
buy rifle. (Applalse.)
| length, referring in terms of eulogy tC
+ Republican institutions in America
/ He stated that he had come to that
meeting because he had heard he wa:
to be arrested that night. If the Mar
shall was not q coward, let him come
/ there and make the arrest. In closing
Mr.. Wilcox said: We are not fighting
against the person of the Queen. No
I If she only recognizes us we shall bt
satisfied, but we shall never be salts
fled as long as this Queen reigns owe
US. She is determined to be agains
US, her actions plainly show that. An
/ nexation is very great question.
shall discuss it here next Thursday
evening. But every Hawaiian shoul'
think more about the great problem
of republic for Hawaii nei. / hav,
heard that Sam Nowlein is sending
his soldiers to our meetings to fine
out our doings. Spying is low, dirt.
work. Such men we feed TO pigs il
Europe.