The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-01-21

terests and mine, should not be here
to night. But | have worked too hard
and too long twenty seven years. i'll
this country to let IA man like him,
with no interest at stake except what
he can get out of it, ruthlessly
destroy everything. That man poses
before you as the friend of this
country. What does he do for you ?
What has he ever done for you
except to injure your interests
as he has every other mans in
the kingdom. That man Ashford
pays, this year, taxes to the enormous
amount of S43, and he has made more
political noise than any ten men who
have paid 100000 in taxes Many
of You pay more taxes than that noisy
politician, and one reason | am told
that his taxes are so small is, that he
sends every dollar he can scrape up
away to another country that he loves
more than he loves this. [ do not
know what scheme for Doodle he has
in view, but it is quite evident that
he has his trunk or carpet bag packed
ready to leave on short notice. If
through your votes he goes into
power, and enough of his stamp with
him, when they have laid the county
in ruins you will look for Ashford
with blood in your eye, but you will
not find him, for he is carpet-bagger.
He tells you that such men as G. r.
Bishop, and the trustees of the Bishop
estate, are your enemies. He con-
dennis the people of Central Union
Church, though he goes there himself
sometimes. He condemns the Rail-
road and the Construction Company,
and in fact every good industry in the
country, and says he will oppose the
Free Trade treaty, the only bright
spot left to day in the horizon of this
country. If ever there was measure
proposed that gave promise OF being
a poor mans blessing it is that very
measure he (AshforD has sworn to
kill if he can. Now, you have re-
ceived $50, 900 in gold coin from the
Bishop estate for building up free
schools for Hawaiians, with more
being paid to you every week, and
you, who have received S27, 200 from
the people of the Central Union
Church, who also expect to pay you
$33, 900 more before the work of build
ing their church is completed, and
you, who have worked for the Rail-
way and Construction companies,
receiving better wages than had been
paid to you before, with, for q time,
free lunches thrown in, are not the
men to say to us who have befriended
you: You are our enemies, because
Ashford says you are. No, you are
not liars; you are honest men! Now,
if you think Ashford is the man who
will serve your interests better than
/ will, you send him to the legisla-
ture. At present | employ in business
enterprises, largely of my own ere
alton, Independent of the Railway
Company, 81 men, who receive S2326
every month. These are Natives,
Portuguese, Americans, Englishmen,
Germans, 10 Chinese, but no Indian
Coolies. Many of these employees
have families. The Oahu Railway
and Land Company employ 1873 men,
who receive $4,000 per month. These
interests pay the government taxes
amounting to 900 per annum, which
is increasing. The Kahuku and EVA
plantation companies, which were
started through the enterprise of the
much condemned Railway Company,
pay, this year, $G534.G0, where the
government did not collect one cent
before, more than it now collects, in
dependent of these enterprises. And
large number of men are employed
on these plantations who also pay
taxes. This government then is re-
ceiving from $4,000 to $4,000 taxes
from property that / have been instru-
mental in building up in this coun-
! try. Every dollar / ever made is
here in this kingdom. For building
up the country, finding employment
| for hundreds of men and increas-
ing the revenues of the country,
| am condemned by Ashford, who
would not pay as much in taxes tC
| the government in 800 years Us
have been instrumental in doing this
year. Multiply 300X$43. / leave my
fate in your hands, gentlemen, and
take my chances with the rest of the
country. If you elect me | will dc
my best to advance the country
Your interests, my interests and the
interests of every honest industrious
man in the kingdom lie in one and
the same direction. | thank you and
! the Native Sons of Hawaii for the
confidence reposed in my honor anG
honesty of purpose, to allow me tC
run without being tied to a platform
If you elect me l don't think you will
ever have occasion to regret it. Now
before | close | will refer briefly tC
Mr.. AshfOrd'S unWarranted attack
upon me and interests [ have the
honor to represent. There is fam
liar saying that if man would be g
successful liar, he must have q GOOD
memory: quality G.. w. Ashford
seems not to possess. Mr.. Ashford
did not surprise me with the untruths
he uttered concerning me and my in
terest in the railway. l was only
surprised that he did not make more
false statements. I did not accept
his invitation to be present as l consid-
cred myself familiar with the bust
ness he promised to speak about, and
knew that if he told the truth |
should have nothing to learn and he
would have nothing to gain. AS a
matter of fact he knows that | never
offered him anything in my life, fol
| anything he was expected to do OF
anything he had done for the Rail.
| way Company while in office, and he
does not believe in his heart that I OF
anyone with my knowledge, ever
bribed anybody else, if he does, he
| sustains the impressions many PEG.
dennis himself by his own speech,
when he says, in the beginning
"Mr. Dillingham; is gentleman for
whom [ have high esteem" Far
Their on he says, ~ was offered $500
worth of stock in the company for
service l rendered in the Legislature
and Cabinet" Now, if both of these
statements are true, then Mr.. Ash
ford has high esteem for