The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-31
WOREINGMAN'S VIEWS,
Sunday Concerts Don't Bring Food
For Children.
He Would Rather see Effort TO MAKE
work-Remarks on Attendance
and Cost.


public square. He also puts in a
plea for the workingman, stating
that they will be greatly benefited
thereby. He does not give any
figures as to how many would at
tend these "workingman's Sunday
benefit band concerts" Nor has he
any figures to give as to the num-
Der that attends the week day
band concerts.
I can safely say that the work
ingman has much greater interest
in how much more work there will
bein the future than in Sousa's band
or any other band or concert.
In the Time it is proposed to
have the concerts at Makee Island.
L would like to know the number
of workingmen that live in that
vicinity or how many working
men could afford to pay from his
weeks salary twenty cents more
or less for each member of his
household. Or is the Time going
to start "Makee Island free car
fare fund" for the workingman?
This would give more weight to
the Time and Representative Ry-
croft's proposition. There is a
class who attend these band con-
certs that is allowed too much
freedom to say nothing of the
hoodlums who do and say as they
please, police or no police. The
workingman and his wife know
that to attend any of these con-
certs they would not be free from
these annoyances. If he resents, it
is question of the police court
and loss of time and money to
him, both of which he cannot af-
ford to lose.
If Representative Rycroft would
ask for the band so as to counteract
Sunday shooting, military encamp-
ment with drill and beer by the
keg and other stuff that was not in
the keg he would do some good.
I would as soon hear music by the
band as the bang of the rifle. If /
could not stop either, protest
against the use of the workingman's
name as wanting the Sunday
concerts. No true working man
will ask other workingmen to work
for his benefit or ask others to do
what he would not like to do.
This band concert is only fore
runner of Sunday saloons and Sun
day stores, Sunday loading and
discharging of steamers that could
wait until Monday. We already
have Sunday tram cars, Sunday
trains, shooting, military encamp-
ment and other things that we did
not have in previous years. No,
Representative Rycroft, we work
ingmen don't want you to lose any
of your vitality asking for Sun
day band for US. If you would do
anything for the workingman, how
would asking when we are to get
decent market so that our wives,
sisters and daughters will not have
to frequent the present, dirtest
market place in the world. We
have the beginning of one, why
not finish it? It would give work
to few workingmen who are now
idle. Why not ask Representative
Rycroft when that new dock is to
be built and if it is not to be built,
find out why? That is what the
workingman is looking for, and
numerous other improvements that
ought to be made so as to give
work to idle men with families
to support. If you start out
on some of these things I have out
lined you would find that it would
take up your time so that you
would forget all about those Sun
day concerts for the workingman.
The only ones benefited by our
band concerts, if at Makee Island,
are the tramcars and the hotel, and
it would be a fine place for old
DRINKS to show off their jags, as 1
have seen time and again at the
daylight band concerts in Homo
lulu.
Every country is trying to get
rid of these things that you in this
country are advocating. This
country is too small for this. What
Honolulu does, all of Hawaii is to
blame for. You must not forget
that the present government came
into power in the name of Chris
tianity and morality. God will
not be fooled with. Remember how
God made America stick to her
declaration of independence in the
sixties. God brought US out of the
valley of the shadow of death in
January He deserves more thanks