The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1892-01-29
MECHANICS UNION.
A Good Rally at Robin.
sons Hall.
Speeches by Several Candidates. Sar.
castle One by Mr.. Neumann.

Robinson's hall was filed last
night by mechanics, clerks, and
workingmen generally. Mr.. John
Phillips, president, was in the chair.
Mr.. A. =. Peterson said their can
dldates would not favor the removal
of the duty on rice if they saw it was
going to cripple the rice industry
without benetiting the sugar indus
try. He had always been opposed
to the licensing of opium, because
experience had proved that when it
was licensed the natives contracted
the habit of using it. If the Liberals
secured a majority of the Legislature,
there would be Cabinet consisting
of Bush, Marques, Ashford and Will
COX. Then the people would with
draw their money from the Postal
Savings Bank, and the Government
could not meet it's obligations. Mr..
Peterson advocated the thorough
deepening of the harbor, so as to
secure all the advantages that would
accrue to the port, naturally, from
the opening of the Nicaragua Canal
Messrs. Ena and Williams deliver
ed short addresses.
Mr.. Neumann said it was great
pleasure to be in position where one
had all the talking, and they from
decency had to listen. There was
more pleasure in it than in the game
of poker that the Advertiser said he
was fond of. That paper had an ed
itorial in it that morning, presumably
written by the editor, who INDUCED
his hoggish tendency whenever the
inclination struck him. The Adver-
tser said there was a proposition
from the Mechanics Union to pull
his name down. That was lie. The
same paper had spoken of him as one
of the lawyer candidates. He would
do the Advertiser the justice to say
that there was not lawyer in the re-
hottest way connected with its staff.
1t was his desire from the first that
the Mechanics Union should sweep
the field, but for himself, he didn't
care whether he was elected or not.
He had written to the Advertiser to
say it lied, aud that its statement
about the proposition of the Mechan-
les Union was an insult. However,
he was not devoting himself to insect
killing, and would proceed to other
subjects. Notwithstanding the pres
ence of Mr.. Jas. Gay, he would say
the election of the Liberal ticket
would be general misfortune. The
Liberals didn't believe their platform,
or if they did they lied elsewhere.
There were two issues before the
country. One was to prevent the
opportunity of changing the consti-
tuition TO the Liberals; the other was
the supporting of the sugar industry.
Whenever the Liberals shouted ''su-
gar barons," there we're cheers from
corporal's guard stationed for the
purpose. Every man of sense knew
that it was necessary that the sugar
industry must be sustained, at least
until there was time for the building
up of other industries. With regard
to the Constitution, when it was
changed in 1887, the curtailment Of
the Kings power was not merely
something desired by great MAORI.
ty but by the unanimous voice of all
classes. But when Mr.. Isenberg or
that day suggested that it might be
we'll to take more time to gain the
end, it may well be believed that the
object could haye been attained with
out hurting anybody's feelings if his
advice had been taken. The speaker
did not know that there was anything
in the constitution WHICH required
changing, except one or two unpala
table provisions that could be altered
by legal enactment. There was NJ
man Of self-respect who would wan
to 60 into constitutional convention
simply to be an interpreter to Parsor
Bush. Mr.. Ashford talked to then
privately as if he were opposed to {
convention, while he spoke entirely
different when he addressed Hawai-
ians. DIR. Ashford knew what he wa
about, he never did anything without
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ing on a cloudy day. Applause.
In discussing the Chinese question
Mr.. Neumann reverted to the decis
ion of Judge Dole declaring the Ac
of last session unconstitutional. TIT
judges we're not there to make Law
but to interpret the law. 1t wa
greatly to the credit of Hon. SANFORD
b. Dole that he realized his position
in this respect and, uninfuenced b,
the sentiment of great majority 0
the people, simply declared what h
concluded was the true status of thu
law. The speaker took up the mat
ter of Japanese immigration. Mr.
Thomas, the graduate of Oxford I'm
iversity, had accused him of bring
ing the japanese here. The Adver
tiser-no, the Advertiser hadn't tn
courage to say it-Ka Leo, on tn
other hand, said he did not deserv
the credit of bringing the Japs here
as the work had been done chiefly b.
Curtis Iaukea. He had been accused
of being in combination with tn
planters. II there was any love be