The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-25

II you live to hear all Ashford has got to /
say to you before he "gits in" you
doubtless will live to good old age.
You hear a deal OF talk about the rich
sugar barons and their injustice to the
poor man. About the equalization OF
taxes and the securing Of the poor mans
rights to the poor man. AS L am not
sugar baron and never expect to be,
never having received direct dividend
from sugar in my life, and if you con-
slider me rich man | will risk my
reputation in your hands for a man who
grinds the poor. So none of that mud
sticks to my clothes. As | am not
sugar planter and have not been asked
by sugar planters to represent them, l
am free to say so far, since the whaling
business failed to be a source OF revenue
to this country, sugar and rice have been
our sole dependence. 1t has been I'M
fortunately a tWU-legged stool that this
country has been set up on, with one
leg much shorter than the other, and
now the other is much shorter than the
one. When Mckinley got his Yankee
saw in and SO shortened the sugar leg OF
our already one-sided stool the late Hon.
II. A. P. Carter devised plan by which
we were to substitute in place of our
stool, coral leg that was lying in the
very entrance of our Pearl River harbor;
leg never used, and hence of no value
whatever. Anyone with half an eye
who was looking out for the independent
standing of the stool could see that the
sooner the coral leg was cut out by the
Yankee saw and set up, Just so much
sooner we would have third leg for the
or hot
support when the other legs began to
weaken. Now, there were Yankees and
a great many other nationalities, includ-
ing large number of good Hawaiians,
who saw the danger to the stool, if the
teeth of the saw ever struck the sugar
leg before We should secure another sup
port, and so they all said ''let him saw
coral" But a sharp, energetic young
man from Canada said "NO, no, let 'em
saw off the sugar leg, who cares we
must preserve our independence
which lies in the coral leg, ten
miles away from the stool" Then the
editor of the Ka Leo and few others
persuaded the ruler Of the land who sat
upon the stool to let the sugar leg 60,
but on no account to disturb the quiet
repose of the useless coral leg. So the
messenger went back to the land that
had made the sugar and rice foundation
of our stool increase in size and strength
from 81 100000 year in 1876 to &c.,
900, 900 in 1891, (The exports from this
country before the Treaty of Reciprocity
went into effect in 1876 was 81 200, 900
per annum. The total exports Tor fifteen
years to date amount to STA 900 900,
which is 500 200, 600 more than we have
any good reason to believe they would
have been during that time had we made
no treaty. to say to the would-be guard
ians of our peace. prosperity and indie
pendence lido your worst" Shortly
after the departure OF our representative
at Washington, q sense of insecurity
seized His Late Majesty and he made
haste to reach the shores OF America,
hoping to recover the boon which he
had been unwisely advised to let slip
from his grasp. A lost opportunity was
followed by unexpected demise, and Ha-
waii was plunged into deep mourning.
Yes, we told America to do her worst,
and she did it, not to injure us, but to
improve her own condition, and when
the side door Of the ark was opened we
were too busy, not in marriage and
giving in marriage" but loaded down
with political and endless discussions
over proposed new Constitutions, until
the door was shut and we were left to
drown, not in pure, clean water, but in
a constitutional soup. Yes, the Yankee
saw has done it's work, the soft yielding
nature Of the sugar has not precIpitated
our tWo-legged, one sided stool into the
| hopeless abyss at one bound, but gently,
though surely, the stool is settling down.
The seat of the stool is the Constitution,
and the Liberal party and few others
propose to save the stool by turning the
seat over, and if you elect enough of
their kind to the platform surrounding
the stool, they will lay hold of the top
and with one dying yell proceed to turn
the seat, or Constitution, and before
the work can be accomplished the re-
naming legs will fly out from under
the stool, country and independence will
! be thing of the past. Uncle Sam will
! gather up the fragments that remain,
! but in the meantime the decay and
wreck will have been so complete that
nothing will remain for the survivors.
Then the Canadian boy and his tribe
will gloat with satisfaction over the sue
cessful issue of their scheme to equaliZe
taxes, for then no one will have any
thing to pay. think | can safely say
that | voice the sentiments of every
thinking man in this country who makes
any pretence to earn an honest living,
and who is not hunting an office from
which he can extract salary that he
could never earn. When | ask you tC
vote for men who have something al
stake in this country, to vote for men
vino are not office seekers; to vote fol
men who have brains and ability to dc
something not only for themselves but
for others, and have proven their ability
on the open sea Of life; to vote for men
who are wise enough to know whether g
stool will stand firmer on three legs than
it will on two; to vote for men who
know that two wrongs will not make
one right; to vote for men who know
enough to accept So, 000,0 year wher
it is offered to the whole country fol
nothing, with a guarantee of your indie
pendence thrown in; to vote for men
who are building up your country anC
not for those who are tearing it down
and finally to vote for men who viii
bring capital into the country, and moi
those who for the sake of being elected
have promised to join the ranks of con
stitutional thinkers, who if they gain the
power they seek will destroy the indie
pendeuce of this kingdom, once anC
forever. Two years ago L urged the
people not to weaken the credit of the
country by frequent changes of admins
tration, not to tear down what they say
never be able to rebuild. From wan
wisdom, discretion, and sound judg
ment this kingdom to-day from the
throne to the humblest subject is sui
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