The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-10-09
j. O. Carter Tells What
Rocks to Avoid.
Resolutions Adopted Refused the
Press VIII be Sent to
Washington.

The anti-annexation meeting on Pal
ace Square last night was attended by
a large number of people, estimated
from 800 to 1000, including men,
women and children of the native Ha-
waiians, as well as a sprinkling of for
eigners. A small movable platform
was placed in a position in front of
the Pacific Tennis Club grounds, and
here seats were placed for the speak
ers Shortly after o'clock J. X. Ka-
hOokanO, as chairman of the evening,
arose and announced the purpose of
the meeting as being opposition to an
nexation, and to take action that Sen
ator Morgan could carry back to the
United States with him as showing the
feeling of the native Hawaiians. The
chairman then announced Mr.. F. J.
Testa, who read in both Hawaiian and
English the memorial of 13 articles to
1.-The President and Senate of the United
States, protesting against annexation,
and giving reasons for such protest
The memorial is long one, and will
not be given to the press for publica-
tion until after the departure of the
Belgic for San Francisco with Senator
Morgan aboard
Mr.. j. K. Kaulia, President of the
Aloha Alma Society, was then announc-
ed. Mr.. Kaulia defended his position
in the matter of signing his name to
the request, asking Senator Morgan to
speak in Kawaiahao church. He had
been severely criticised for his action
He had done it simply to get Mr.. Nor
gan to state his side of the question,
SO that the Hawaiians could all the
more intilligently discuss the situation,
Mr.. Morgan was the possessor of two
tongues. In Kawaiahao he spoke of the
advantages that would come to the ma
tives through anneXatiOn-just as to
the negroes. Under Harrison's admin
istration, Mr.. Morgan was one of the
men who worked to have the negroes
expelled from America and sent back
to Africa
Kalauakalani, President of the Kalai
Alma Society, was the next to speak.
He waved Hawaiian flag and told the
natives to remain solid against an
nexation. Then he produced an Amer
lean flag and asked the people if they
wanted to lose sight of their own flag
and live under the American. The an
Swer came loudly in the negative.
J. o. Carter was next introduced, and
took the platform, with F. ]. Testa as
translator. Mr.. Carter spoke as fol-
| lows:
"Fellow-Citizens and Countrymen:
Aloha oukou 1t had not been my pur-
| pose to speak here tonight, but through
| the requests of the gentlemen who
| have this meeting in charge, / am here
to make a few remarks, which l shall
give you to the best of my ability.
want to say in prefacing my remarks
! that we are facing the gravest question
that has ever come before the Hawai-
ian people. l come, believing that if
have talent l shall let you know il
and not put it in a napkin and bury it
[ want to say to you who are Hawai-
| ians that we are a feeble folk, but the
people of the United States appreciate
the loyalty with which they have stood
! by their sovereign and their country
The very men who led the present
| movement to what it is, themselves
/ admire the way the Hawaiian people
have stood firm. You have stood as yol
| did in 1893-against annexation
Whether annexation is desirable or MOI
is question that could be ably argued
on both sides, but 1 want to say thai
we have good authority against it in
| the words of the Senator from Alaba
ma, who said that had he been a Ha
waiian born, he, too, would oppose an.
/ nexation. | am afraid that those who
! are working for annexation have moi
+ looked at all sides of the question. Ar
alliance with the United States means
! grave responsibilities for the Hawai-
/ ian people. The United States of Amer
| lea are one of the leading nations OF