The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-03-22

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j. ALFRED MACON,
ARCH'D SINCLAIR,
WILLIAM p. TTLDEN.
The Speeches.
Mr.. Scott being called on said: Mr..
| Chairman and gentlemen. This is
| the first time that have ever been at
political meeting since | have been
| in this country. There is but one
which would get me out and that a
meeting which treats annexation to
| the United States as the only safety
for the country. (Applause.) General
Mcclellan, he had read, had trans
ferred half his army across the stream
and then stopped leaving half on the
other bank. Then he engaged in a
long controversy on the matter. Fin
ally, Lincoln wrote him to cross or go
back, and not stick like an OK in a
picket fence. (Laughter.) Without
discussing things that were passed he
| believed all those who looked to the
future, rather than the present, would
see the impossibility of going back.
! (Applause.) The age of Protectorates
had gone by. A Protectorate by the
United States would have to be con-
firmed by other Powers, perhaps by
| Great Britain, France and perhaps
the Oriental powers which, like boy
with two. edged sword, would like to
see whether it would cut or not. 1t
was impossible to go back. The state
of things now passed would never
come again, no matter what should
take place. (Tremend Gus applause
General Hartwell: This is time
when no man can refuse to tell the
political faith that is in him, and to
give his reasons for his faith. There
may be Americans in the United
States, as we'll as here, who think that
the annexation of these islands will
not be a benefit to the United States.
I am not one of those, for l think that
in order to hold its position among
the Great Powers the United States
must be naval power, and unless it
controls this group it cannot have
naval supremacy in this ocean. But
the proposition that annexation will
not be benefit to Hawaii will not
stand examination for one moment.
We may not have imported contract
labor when under United States laws;
we may not have penal enforcement
of labor contracts under the United
States Constitution; but our labor will
command higher wages, land will &C
up, and what is more than all else, we
are sure to have stable, permanent
government; and we are going tc
have annexation. (Applause.) The
news from Washington tomorrow
will induce large number of people
to get down from the fence, on the
one side OF the other. If the news
shall be that annexation is not &C
complished there will be plenty of 81
told you sou people. 1t is a gooC
i. thing to have this meeting tonight
before it is certain what the news is tt
be. But no matter what we may
hear tomorrow, it will be all right il
the end. If the Senate shall undo
misapprehensiOn of the situation de
. cline to vote annexation until furthe
examination, all right. The who'll
: question will bear examination. TIL
recent movement was no conspiracy
: it was not preconcerted; it was no
, the action of planters, or capitalists, o
missionaries. 1t was like clap O
thunder in clear sky. The. move
ment was a spontaneous uprising +
meet the necessity of the case. An
it is something which has come t.
stay. This community will supper
the Provisional Government until an
nexation is secured, as it surely vii
be. With equal rights and equal law
for all, there is future for Hawaii, a
part of the United States, which
full of promise.
a r. w. Wilcox, being called for, wa
0 received with prolonged applause
r He said: Gentlemen-I wish to apol
ogize for any imperfection in expires
sion, as l am not in the habit of speak
). ing in English. AS the only Hawaiia
present will say that when I begi
an undertaking / will stand to it lIk
man. The time for Hawaii's sol
: independence is passed, but anneXa
ton to the United States will mea
e liberty and independence, and perhar
e the salvation of the native race. Lou
d applause).
n w. G. Wilder: Mr.. Chairman an
s fellow citizens-I had hoped to atten
as simple listener, but L will neve
: take back seat on this subject of al
e nexation. cloud Applause). He wa
II delighted to compare this with til
n last annexation meeting which wa
n held in this city. There were fiftee
g men at that one. He was glad to NEE
g tonight under call to all the peopl,
e He endorsed every word of that cal
To-morrow's steamer would bring n
bad news, for revolutions never Q
backward" (Applause). He woul
IS say that the Commission had been RI
ceived with unexpected enthusiasm b
IS the people, the press and in Washing
}, ton. (Applause). They had been tol
al | thew would bava fo xy-oi+ two xY-aoI