The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-06-08

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parties. You may remen Der at n meet
ing of the Democrats held short time
| ago | was called upon to speak and
| declared myself an Independent. We
! have for seven years been living in a
famine now | say the period of fatness
has come. Would II be wise for me to
| advise you to join either of the parties
now formed here? / say let us go on
free and independent. During the past
seven years we were deprived OF our
benefits Is 1t now the time for us tc
| unite with other parties and give our
new privileges away? No.
Who Is the Devil
You must remember that the Repub-
lican party has threatened us; so do e
Democrats. They say in their threats
that we will be disfranchised. l say
| who is the devil In Honolulu who can
do that? 1t was the United States
which has given us these privileges, d
there is not one who can now deprive
| us of that right. Smith and Hartwell
| have been in Washington trying to de-
prive us of our voting privileges. They
| tried hard, but the American Congress
uId not heed them, and we are now en-
| joying today the privileges in spite of
| the opposition made. They tried to dc
the same thing to us as they have been
doing to the negroes of the South. We
can work hard and show strength by
| the ballot box.
II say let us organize an Independent
| party"
| With these concluding words the
| speaker introduced Robert Wilcox, the
| delegate of the two political clubs, who
| returned to Honolulu from Washington
by the Pekins with the ex-Queen
Wilcox to the Front.
The first portion of his address was
long account of his trip to Washington
in company with Edgar Caypless, the
attorney of the Hawaiians. He de-
scribed their various visits to different
| newspapers along the route, stating
| that each one told them to drop the at
tempt for the restoration of the mon
| archy. At Washington the newspaper
representatives told them the same
thing. For that reason they decided to
work for election privileges. From this
point on Mr.. Wilcox gave n minute de-
scription of his efforts on behalf OF the
| Hawaiians with the Committee on Ter
ritories. He spoke of Ceso Moreno and
the speeches which he made before the
| committee, which he described as being
full of personalities only. A so of Cayp-
less and Colonel Little of Hilo, who was
looking after the interests of Hilo land
squatters The names of Representa-.
Il tiveS in Congress were tripped off VIII.
coX's tongue as If he were to the man.
or born. On January q he attended 9
meeting of the Committee on Territories
and was introduced to Mr.. Knox, the
chairman. He was allowed to express
his views In behalf of the natives Both
AR. Smith and Mr. Hartwell were pres
ent. Wilcox spoke in regard to the vot-
ing privileges and against the property
| qualifications. He told them that the
Hawaiians would be deprived of their
| rights If the restriction of property
qualifications We're placed upon the ma
| tive vote; the planters would be the
only ones who could vote. Caypless
| spoke on the same subject, and Moreno
confined himself to the cry of Down
with the missionaries"
Wilcox Makes Statements.
Wilcox stated that Mr.. Smith spoke
the gist of his address being that 1.-THE
missionaries had brought civilization to
, hawaii, and that IL the property qualiti
30ation was removed, civilization would
be swamped by ignorance. Mr. Smith
urged for the restriction clause, as the
| Hawaiians could not rule themselves" "
Every day Wilcox went before the
Committee, until he was told by the
chairman not to come too often, but
other members told him the chairman
had no right to bar him out. Moon OF
Tennessee was the one who introduced
the resolution which threw out the re-
strictions upon voting Moon also in
troduced resolution to remove the tax
qualification. Knox insisted that 81
poll tax should be required. Most of
the Republicans in the Senate opposed
the Cullom bill on account of the prop
erty qualification. For three days Gull
lom and Morgan in behalf OF the Dole
government fought for the restrictive
clause. On the third day they did not
nave many supporters. Wilcox had
many, among them being Pettigrew,
Taylor and others. Knox he said was a
schoolmate OF Hartwell and that ac-
counted for his opposition to the Ha-
waiians. Tillman was strong man
FOR them. He howled like a dog in the
Senate and he made Cullom shudder.
Pettigrew informed Wilcox that he
would do everything for the natives.
but nothing for the foreigners. When
the question Of the tax law came up.
Pettigrew claimed the attention of the
Senate and called their attention to the
law which was to the effect that in case
the taxes We're not paid In Hawaii. the
delinquents We're thrown into prison,
clothed In convicts garb. fed on n little
pol. and worked at the rate of 80 cents
day. and practically put them In
slavery That put Cullom down. Till
man introduced and fought hard for
the clause regarding the tax penalty
uhtll IL was knocked out. Bacon was
another man who worked hard to make
the natives citizens of the United
States.
Two Thirds of the Vote.
The question of the restoration of |
the monarchy is gone from us forever"
said Wilcox. We are now a people
however, who can vote. You ali know |
we have two-thirds of the votes or this
country, | say to you that the people
who have been living on your rights and
held the reins of government are now
without that power. II you want 10
rule, II is for you to decide. II you don't
want to rule you must so decide. | say
to you that believe God was with us in |
the fight at Washington. The Queen
feels happy because now two-thirds of /
the voting power rests with you. The |
monarchy is like dear person that has
died. Let IL go. Look to the future.
We can send Delegate to Congress.
You all know II has been stated I'm the
newspaper of Thurston & Company that
changes can be made TO this law of the
franchise. but We are not TO look TO
that. Because you have the power in
your hands ] ask you TO do right. as