The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-03-28
The Speeches.

Mr.. Scott being called on said: Mr..
Chairman and gentlemen. This is
the first time that have ever been at
a pc itical 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
ami 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. Tremendous applause.)
General HartwelI: 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.
] am not one of those, for | think that
in order to hold its position among
the Great Powers the United States
must be a naval power, and unless it
controls this group it cannot have
naval supremacy in this ocean. But
the proposition that annexation will
not be a 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 ander the United
States Constitution; but our labor will
command higher wages, land will go
up, and what is more than all else, we
are sure to have stable, permanent
government; and we are going to
have annexation. applause } The
news from Washington tomorrow
will induce a large number of people
to get down from the fence, on the
one side or the other. If the news
shall be that annexation is not ac
complished there will be plenty of al
told you SOL people. 1t is good
thing to have this meeting tonight,
before it is certain what the news is to
be. But no matter what we may
hear tomorrow, it will be all right in
the end. If the Senate shall under
plisapprehension of the situation de-
cline to vote annexation until further
examination, all right. The whole
question will bear examination. Tile
recent movement was 10 conspiracy;
it was not preconcerted; it was not
the action of planters, or capitalists, or
1t was like a clap of
thunder in clear sky. The move
ment was a spontaneous uprising to
meet the necessity of the case. And
it is something which has come to
stay. This community will support
the Provisional Government until an
nexatiOn is secured, as 1t surely will
be. With equal rights and equal laws
for all, there is future for Hawaii, as
a part of the United States, which is
full of promise.
R. w. Wilcox, being called for, was
with prolonged applause.
He said: Gentlemen l wish to apol-
ogize for any imperfection in express
sion, as am not in the habit of speak
ing in English. As the only Hawaiian
present will say that when | begin
an undertaking l will stand to it like
a man. The time for Hawaii's sole
independence is passed, but annexa-
ton to the United States will mean
liberty and independence, and perhaps
The salvation of the native race. loud
w. C. Wilder: Mr.. Chairman and
fellow citizens-I had hoped to attend
IS a simple listener, but 1 will never
AXE a back seat on this subject of an
loud Applause). He was
to compare this with the |
ast annnrafion T17eafinp which was