The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-02-01
NATIONAL REFORM.
Meeting at The BeTetania Street
ArmOry,
Speeches by Several
Candidates.

A public meeting in the interest of
the National Reform party was held
at the Beretania street Armory Sat
urday evening. Mr.. Robert More
took the chair at five minutes 10 8,
saying they had been waiting for the
interpreter, but as he had not come
the speaking would begin.
Mr.. G. j. Mccarthy was the first
speaker. He hadn't expected to be
called on, not being candidate, but
the issues were important to every
man. There were two great ques
tions in the campaign First, with
regard to constitutional conven-
ton; which was believed by most
thoughtful men to be fraught with
danger. Next came the treaty mat
ter, bearing on the welfare of every
workingman. AT present the Am
erican duties on our fruit and other
products were prohibitory of any ex-
tension of business. A matter that
wasn't in the platform, if he remem-
bered Alright, was that of the Grown
lands. 1t would be wise policy if
bonds could be issued for the pur-
pose of purchasing these lands, to
have them divided up into home
steads, the jewellers on which would
build up the country by their indus
try. Finally, the speaker referred
to the independent movement, warn
ing all present that every vote cast
for Henry Warehouse was vote for
the Liberal party.
Hon. K. G. Macfarlane remarked
that he was not candidate, having
yet two years to serve of the term to
which he was elected last election.
Referring TO the record of the Re-
form party he claimed that it had
done good work in the reforming of
politics. There were great issues
before them, but none were of more
Importance to the workingmen than
the labor question, which was at the
same time vital to the main industry
of the country. In fact the problem
of maintaining that industry intact
depended much on the proper solu-
ton of the labor question. They had
elected their candidates last time I'm.
der the promise to do something for
the protection of the workingmen
against Chinese competition. Some
of them had tried to fulfil that prom
Use, but Messrs. Bush, Marques and
Wilcox had not helped them. Yet
these gentlemen were now parading
their sympathy for the poor white
and native workingmen. Where were
they when they had the opportunity?
While he admitted the necessity of
procuring laborers for the plantations
it must not be done at the expense of
civilization in this kingdom He was
against flooding the country with
either Indian or Chinese coolies. 1t
was hoped that the law passed at last
session would have the desired result
of admitting adequate supplies of
labor without prejudice to the civil
lied labor of the kingdom. But the
Supreme Court-or one justice-had
decided that law to be unconstitu-
tonal. Should that decision be con-
tirmed by the full bench, they should
have to fall back on the constitu-
tional amendment passed once at last
session. He believed it was practi-
cable to give the sugar planters a
sutiiciency of labor, without jeopar-
dizing the interests of the mechanics
and workingmen of Hawaii. Yet in
restricting the Asiatics from entering
into competition with the native and
white workingmen, it would not be
right TO be too harsh with the Chi
nese already here-as to drive them
out of present employments would
be breach OF vested interests. The
speaker referred to the attempt of
DR.. Rogers and a small band to de-
feat the National Reform ticket by
putting forward independent candi-
dates. That evening he had been
handed brochure bearing the ear
marks of the famous physician and
journalist, who by physicians was
said TO be a journalist, and by jour
nalists to be physician. The little
sheet in as plain way as it could
advised the Reform party to vote for
the National Liberal ticket. If this
great statesman, known to the block
in which he lived, who mistook sore
spot on his head for public disaster,
was the main support of this scheme
to knife the National Reform party,
he should like TO write the obituary
of the movement at that moment.
Mr.. ia, Kahoonei spoke briefly in
terpreted by Hon. John Ena, remind
ing the Hawaians that all the Ma
tional Reform Representative candi-
dates were Hawalians.
Hon. p. Neumann, on being in
trOduced as the "bashful man." de-
INJURED to the title as one that, if it
stuck to him, would be greatly to
his disgust. He should not like to
be referred to as the "bashful man"
before the Independent party, con-
sisting of two men and driver, who
! considered he had an excess of Gall