Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-19
THEIR FAREWELL DINNER.
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when we should have a sympathy
for the honest people who have
opposed us. The other day when
1 saw the Hawaiian flag come
down 1 felt a big lump in my
throat---I had not expected to feel
like that. We should have sym.
patty for the native Hawaiians.
1 believe that the disposition of
all of us is to ask for native Ha-
waiians every privilege that we
ask for ourselves. We shall not
ask for special privileges because
we were annexatlonists, but ask
for ourselves no more privileges
than for our darker brethren.
I Loud and prolonged applause. i
Mr.. Hatch - l want to endorse
every word Mr.. Thurston has said
for equal rights to all. Although
the time OF misrepresentation is
not past, the time is coming when
all will realize that an era of great
prosperity is coming to these isl.
ands. l hope 1 shall have the
pleasure of meeting the Sharp
shooters again, and am sorry it is
the last meeting of the body as an
organization. They should look
back on the past with great plea
sure and great pride for the part
they had taken in events. People
have failed to understand the Pro-
visional Government and the Re-
public. They did not understand
how the "Oligarchs" were able to
carry on the government. They
did not appreciate the difficulties
we were under. They appreciated
the military at its full worth, but
failed to appreciate that, even
with the assistance of the Citizens
Guard, we should be able to carry on
the government. This ununiformed
organization and the Citi-
zens' Guard were the forces back
of the movement. We have had
a great many national holidays in
the past, but our great national
holiday hereafter is to be the
twelfth of August. The Sharp
shooters will continue to come
together and remember how they
stood in the dark days of the
Republic.
Col. Fisher responded for the
National Guard of Hawaii"
That body really originated prior
to the formation of the Provi-
sional Government. When the
Queen attempted to promulgate a
new constitution, Zeigler, Gum,
Camara and himself-who had
been captains in the Honolulu
Rifles when disbanded by the
National Reform Government
came together to consult upon &C
ton in the trouble that was believed
to be inevitable. Instead of going
to the meeting of citizens, he
went to his Office to look up the
roster of his old company. Meet.
ing DIR. Emerson he told him
what he was about, and that now
Sharpshooter asked to have his
brother Joe's name and his own
enrolled. The speaker fur
ther described the mastering
in of forces, with John
Il. Soper as Colonel and
himself Lieutenant Colonel, which
took the name of the Hawaiian
National Guard few days after
the Inauguration of the Provision
al Government. Referring to the
early friction between the N. G. H.
and the Citizens Guard, he said
yellow journalism did it." The
position of the N. G. II. was simp
ly that the community was too
small to permit of drawing away
from the ranks of those fit fol-
military duty large body of men
who should not be under the limi
tations and subject to the onerous
discipline of those in uniform who
were required to drill fifty-two
evenings in the year. snow that
we have annexed the United States
and taken seventy million people
on ourselves, We will excuse you
you can withdraw now" Col
Fisher regarded the material in
the N. G. III. and that in the Ma
tional Guard of the United States
as identical. They had seen the
U. S. N. G.'s pass through here
and could judge for themselves
He hoped the Sharpshooters
would form themselves into a rife
association or club and they would
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