The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-22
LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND On
THAT.

We advise our readers to study
the speeches of Messrs. Thurston
and Dillingham; at the Portuguese
Club on Wednesday evening, and
comp re, or rather contrast them
with the utterances of Mr.. Ashford
or the dreary stuff of Free Lance.
Mr.. Thurston addresses the Por-
tuguese voters as men capable of
thinking, and tells them to think,
think, THINK before voting. Mr..
Dillingham; shows fairly what he
and his fellow workers in the O. r
& L. Co. have done and are doing,
and points with justifable pride to
their wharves and railway aud to
the great plantation and mill which
have thus been made possible, the
acreage of wilderness brought
under cultivation or laid out in
town sites. and the sums of money
paid out in wages and material.
Now then to the speeches deli
Vered in the Palace Square on Sat
urday last. Mr.. Bush states that
somebody is in debt, and that the
creditor leads the debtor by the
nose, and that "when [ was gov
ernor of Kauai" 1 discovered that
some plantation laborers were fed
on "something worse than salmon" "
Then comes Mr.. Aki, who, as his
sole recommendation, announces
that he has ono knowledge of law"
and is "entirely ignorant of econo-
micaI questions" Mr.. Male, whose
real sphere, he says OF himself, is
that of seller of salmon and dried
fish, promises, if elected, that creep
ing males will shake the very
foundations of the legislative halll!
Is this contamination greatly to
be desired, or is it an awesome
threat? or what is the meaning
of this dark saying? Mr..
Thomas having nothing particular
to say, says it. Mr.. Cummings
advises his friends to ac-
cept bride from our party
and then vote with the other, and
then not very politely refers to the
previous speakers as "talkative
cuttle-fiSh." Here we suppose arc
the morals and the manners picked
up by Mr.. Cummings when he fell
into a ditch with his friend Bush.
Now comes the great gun of the
occasion Mr.. Ashford who tells his
audience that they were arbitra-
rIly deprived of their liberties in
1887. We remember the occasion
and saw Mr.. Ashford stand on the
platform of the "depriving" party,
in the uniform of an officer and
carrying the rife of private,
spout and sputter there till he was
told to come down, which he did
for a seat in the Cabinet of the
"deprivers." Now he tells his
hearers "whatever you want you
should have and you shall have, y
and then the usual clap-trap about
rich VS.. poor, and borrowed phrase
ology about "sugar barons" and
Asiatic coolies.
Mr.. Bullock cannot live under
this Constitution, but will knock
down somebody, who is not pres
ent, with his fists. However, be
announces as part of the platform
of the Liberal party, "we'll cut up
the Grown lands into hOmesteads
and give them to you for nothing,
We shall give you an acre apiece"
The next speaker complained Of
having been called "goose." We
think the goose the aggrieved
party.
We cannot afford space, and will
not nauseate our readers by any
further quotations from the public
utterances of these very remark
able statesmen, but with Mr..
Thurston beg all voters native,
American, European, to think and
think we'll first and then vote
afterwards.