The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-18
EHR~sPEEcHEs.
What Was Said by the Speakers
of the Evening.

The immense throng that crowd
ed around the speakers platform
long before the time set for the
speeches to begin, was amply
rewarded by hearing what followed.
Eloquent eulogiums of the Pro-
visional Government were APP
plauded to the echo, and great
enthusiasm was shown by the
audience. Never has such a crowd
been seen at a mass meeting in
Honolulu. In the right hand part
of the stand was the place reserved
for the speakers and a few other
prominent men. On the left, the
press stand, occupied by represen-
tatives of the local press and the
foreign correspondents.
Mr.. Anterior, the Chairman of
the evening, spoke as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: The last mass
meeting of citizens and others in this
city was held on the 2Sth of Novem-
Der, 1898. 1t was called to protest
against the action of Mr.. Cleveland,
and was large and enthusiastic. The
protest was emphatic. Contrary to the
expectation of Grover Cleveland, the
publication of Gresham's letter bound
together the men who had imperilled
not only their lives but their property
and their fortunes in an effort to es-
tablish good, an honest and strong
government in Hawaii. The same
men have come together again to-
night, though not in the same place
nor for the same purpose. We are here
to celebrate the anniversary of the
Provisional Government. 1t has been
on trial for a full year, and in spite of
prophecies it has stood firm and
has been sustained by the best
and the most trustworthy men in
Hawaii. The future is in the hands
of men whom we can trust. The
Government is morally and financi-
ally sound, and upheld as it is by
strong hands and willing hearts, it
will live and prosper, until in the
providence of God it shall be absorbed
in the great American Union.
J. B. CASTLE Fellow annexation
lists: 1t seems to me that there is but
little to say, but that little should be
said in tones to reverberate through
the ages of Hawaii's future, in tones
which will reach our children's
children. These truths, citizens of
the future State of Hawaii, others can
emphasize better than 1, but two
thoughts have come to me. One year
ago today noon, we stood on a plat
form with two planks-the abolition
of the monarchy and absorption into
the United States. On the oath day OF
last month the Provisional Govern
ment drove the last nail in the coffin
of Hawaiian monarchy. By the
strength of our own right arms, and
steadfast purpose, united in all that is
essential, the last article of our plat
form will he accomplished, and our
mother in Washington will take to
Rome" was a proverbial saying in
that great empire. In Hawaii every
political highway and byway should
lead to annexation. Our hope is in
that. Every road leads to Washing
ION. Standing upon this platform of
one plank, all differences must van
ish; all factions melt away. We wish
no permanent government, nor any
thing else, which does not lead to an
nexation; no change which does not
make for that; no republic but the
Great Republic. The question before
US is simplicity itself. No man of
clear brain and right heart will OPP
pose union with that country which
secures, by its system of equal liberty
and equal laws, the best opportunity
for the solution of every problem
which can assail us in the century TO
come. We hear voices which might
as well come from rOyalists: YOU'RE
not out of the woods yet" "Don't
count your chickens before they are
Matched" Such words should come,