The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-02-02

The foreigners have come among
you, and they have been welcomed;
and that was well, because they .
have brought higher civilization.
But with all their desires to lift you
up, they have not forgotten to
strip you of all your lands.
They have given you their civiliza-
ton and the Bible, and they have
taken your lands in exchange. Per
haps they have studied what the
Scripture says " 1t is easier for a
camel to pass through the eye of a
needle than for rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven" Therefore
they were afraid to leave you rich
for fear you would not get to heaven.
Laughter. You can see it was en-
tirely in your interests they would
rather run the risk of not going to
heaven than that you should run the
risk of becoming rich. They took
that upon themselves, but they want
to steer themselves straight. They
have been pretending to you that
they were your friends. You being
poorer, they richer, they have adj
vantages over you yet they want
your votes. After seventy years of
civilization, the Hawaiians are get
ting their teeth cut. They have not
come straight before you. No; but
they come in as side-show. They
run Mr.. Heleluhe. (Mr. Ashford
here told a story about family of
monkeys, to point out the moral
that in union is strength, etc.
Every vote you give for Heleluhe
simply means that you are going to
be whipped. If Mr.. Heleluhe has
not got the patriotism to withdraw
in favor of Mr.. Cummings, gentle
men, concentrate your votes on Mr..
Cummings. If your real object is
not to get justice, you can reach
your aim by voting for Heleluhe.
Every vote for Heleluhe is vote for
your continuing under the griev-
ances of the present constitution.
Every vote for Cummings is a vote
for victory, vote that will lift the
Hawaiians to station of equality
with the best man that treads the
soil. The same remark applies to
all our Noble candidates. If the
planters party get in, you will have
free rice, and that will utterly des
troy the value of your rice patches. I
will just mention two gentlemen on
that ticket, the head and the
tail, Cummins and Peterson. They
are both estimable men, but they
are on the bad side. They are in
favor of free rice. Mr.. Peterson is
in favor of free rice, because in his
recent speech he said that he was in
favor of it if that would be of
benefit to the sugar industry. If
you wish to see bad trees, and
everything that is vile grow
where your rice is growing
now, then, vote for Peterson. But if
you want protection for your inter
ests, vote for the Liberal ticket. If
you wish to return to that degree of
justice which you enjoyed before the
present Constitution was enforced,
then vote for the Liberal ticket. If
you are simply willing to groan, why
you are perfectly welcome, for the
other ticket will keep you in your
present condition. Remember, the
ballot is secret, and when you enter
those booths remember no one but
God Almighty can watch for whom
you vote. There will be no mission
airy eye to watch over you-ho one
else you will be free man. There
will be no one threatening you with
foreclosure of your mortgage if
you don't put cross opposite the
name he wants. All that time, then,
remember you are Hawaiian. l
thank you for your attention, gentle
men. Applause.
CAPT. j. Ross (W. H. Cummings
interpreting) : For the last four days
I have been at Koolau. Two years
ago the Reform newspaper started
to agitate whether the Hawaiian has
the right to vote or not. That was
the beginning of the campaign two
and half years ago. They very
soon discovered that that measure
was very unpopular-both between
the natives and the foreigners. The
general dissatisfaction at that time
was consummated by the starting OF
the National Reform party. The
National Reform was composed OF
the Hui Kalaiaina and the Mechan
ics' Union. Several of those that
were returned as Representatives
and Mobiles have proved treacherous
to you. They have turned over to
, the Reform party. The Reform
party have shown that they are in
, strong opposition to the working
men. At the beginning of this cam
paign there were strong indications
that the same thing would happier
again. The National Reform party
have been calling the nations party
, vile names, because they cannot in
duce us to join them. They have
shown political spleen against for
eigners who have allied themselve:
with the Liberal party, who are for
eigners of long residence and with
just as clean record as themselves
Now, you understand that when mer
resort to political tricks they admit
/ their weakness. Our party are
, not for a republic, nor are
we revolutionists. The real revolu
, tionists and those who favor a re
public are the National Reform anC
, the Reform parties, but they are
/ afraid to say so publicly. Mr.
Wilder belongs to those who are bit
terly opposed to the Hawaiians anc
| to the Liberal party. Mr.. Heleluht
depended for his support upon mer