The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-02-03
SOME GOOD WORDS
Speakers at Monthly Meeting
Last Night.
STRONG SPEECHES BY ORATORS
Reasons Why the People
Should Work for Cause.
William r. Castle, Cecil Brown.
Geo. A. Davis and Charles
Creighton Hit the Mark.

The regular monthly meeting of the An
nexation Club was held in the Drill Shed
last evening. In the absence of President
Thurston, who was suffering from a Sc
we're headache, First Vice President b.
f. Dillingham; occupied the chair. In the
absence of the secretary, a. G. NJ Robin
son read the minutes of last meeting.
Mr.. Dillingham; explained that the small
audience. was due TO the late arrival of
the mail from the Coast. The question
of annexation and the interest felt in 1T
by the people was not 10 be judged by
the attendance upon the regular meetings
of the club. 1t was the one enduring is
sue, and was strengthening every day.
The speaker then introduced Hon. Cecil
Brown as one who was born in the coun-
try and was familiar with the people,
their sentiments and also with the ques-
ton of the hour. Mr.. Brown said:
.'GentIenen:-If anyone had told me six
years ago that L would address meeting
tonight favorable to the annexation of
Hawaii to the United States L don't
know what l would have told him. Time
brings changes. Today / favor the cause
to the extent that L will not be satisfied
until we annexed. The past six years
has brought wildly to our attention the
want of a strong government, one able to
foster our interests, protect our people
and our welfare. To accomplish this, we
are urging one purpoSe-to become a part
and parcel of the United States. do not
know that we will get it, but L hope so.
The reason we want it is to have a gov
eminent stable, Il governments able to
protect us, a government able to insure
our prosperity and good fortune. As L
said before, tie only way to obtain this
is by annexation.
THE question we have to present to
the mother government is our desire for
annexation, not as a band of adventures
nd not as a measure for our pecuniary
benefit 1t is not that. 1t is with the
hope and belief that the country of our
adoption may be insured peace and pros
perity that present the question. L
submit to you and the country, to Ha-
waiian and foreigner, that our peace ana
happiness lies in our chances of coming
under the Stars and Stripes. The reason
of those who oppose us is not the wei
fare of the country or those around them,
but rather their own pocketbookS. In
questions of this kind the pocketbook
should be left aside, and we should look
TO the good of the country at large. If
the parties opposed to us should succeed,
and we be relegated to a position Of
having TO rely on ourselves alone, COM
PEELED to paddle our own canoe, and Reel
procity, under which the country has
prospered so, should be taken from us,
where would we be? Then those who
now oppose us would be ready to cry out:
Gentlemen, help us
There is a question which is dwelt
lightly upon, but which must be seriously
considered. 1t is the steady coloniZing
from other parts of the world that is
going on here. The signs of the times in
dictate our need of help and strong pro-
lection, when questions may arise fatal
TO our very existence. We see daily peo-
pie coming here from other chimes. The
reason is that they have seen these fair
isles, this little country far out in the
mid-ocean, isolated, and have seen that
they could silently COLOMBO it; and unless,
gentlemen, we can obtain the protection
Of some strong power, our identity must
ultimately be swallowed up. People in
this country have believed for over 20
years that the day would come when we
would need some support from without.
we all know what brought about the
movement of four years ago. 1t was the
Anglo-SaXon spirit rising and saying:
We will be governed, but not dictated to.
We Will live as we should live and do
what We ought to do, but no further
There we stand today. We are governed
today as We think we should be governed
but our one thought is admission to that
country all the world looks up to. We
ask admission without terms. Take US
in, Is our cry. We want stability, Sc
curity for our families for our enter
priseS and We want peace. If we are adj
mitted, all this viii come. This is what
mas actuated our movements since 1893;
and any assertion that the movement was
made for gain by Adventures, is unsup-
ported and should not be accepted. We
are not here as the representa- tiVeS of the
United States. asking for admission. We
represent this country and its interests
Annexation is the sole nope OF Ha-
wall II IS the only arm that viii give
US protection, give peace and prosperity.
That IS our aim; il will be until we get it
and il should be. Can we say we have
done anything in the past four years to
impede its cOnSumma ton? l think not
We have met the question fairly and
sQuarely from the first: have met argu-
ment with argument. fact with fact: and
] think with a majority OF the patriotic
thinking people of the United States this
country has already been adopted as
part and parcel of it,
The chairman, Mr.. Dillingham;. had the
pleasure and good fortune to arrive here
81 years ago. He could say that the
charge that missionaries and ''adventJr-
ers' had lived here since to rob the
natives was absolutely false. Six or seven
years ago little of such by-talk was ever
heard. In former years annexation was
not talked of. either. Two men Of Ho-
nolulu used to make themselves conspic-
nous by advocating ii. one of the them
was DR.. McGrew. who is often called the
father of annexation" Two months ago
this gentleman had startled the speaker
with the proposition that the mission
aries and missionary children did not
want annaNa ton. lie EaNa n rnn scr,