The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-10-23


f,i lu New YotE aui Boston You may
a-k why DO ] say su. BECAUSE if We oN-
anime tho history of thp United states We
VIII rnd that whenever We have had our
hardest times. the Democrats with iheir
hurtful legislation have been the cause.
. lu iN31, under the Democrat Van Buren,.
the wall % distress was heard through
out the land. and the demand Tor relief
/ from poverty ana suffering Numbered at
the door Of every Legislature In the coun-
TRY There was no money for business,
and men were idle everywhere.
UNDER GROVER CLEVELAND.
/ IL was so also under the Cleveland ad-
Imiustrauon. Those of Us from the states
know that In certain places soup houses
and coal shops were run by charity to
Keep the workingman's family from freez-
ing and starving. Why do not our Demo-
cratic orators show us such record un-
der Republicansm? They can not. They
We uld rush us bludly into a condition Of
things when our workshops would close
up. our mills shut down. our building OPP
|efations stop, and general distress step in
where prosperity is just beginning TO
start up. The Democrats can not truth
fully deny that people lost by failures one
hundred ana twenty-five million dollars
more under Cleveland than under MCkin-
ley, ana that under Mckinley the work
ingmcn of the nation made over 1--WE hun
cred million dollars more in wages than
uuGer Cleveland. This matter OF business
prosperity is an important one TO us. We
have our homes to buy or to pay for; we
have our children to educate; We have to
be on our guard lest We pursue a policy
that will manufacture beggars instead OF
sugar. a prominent Japanese gentleman
told me To-Day that he is a Democrat be-
cause the Democratic party believes in
free trade. This should show you what
kind of party ii is in this particular. The
Republican party gave bounty to domes-
tic sugar producers TO encourage its pro-
ducton, while the Democrats believe in
free trade, opening the doors wide and
throwing no protection around home in
dustries.
TRY TO THROW DUST.
The Democrats tell us that We should
oppose the Republicans because they are
depressing the Filipinos. What they say
upon this point is simply an attempt to
throw dust in our eyes. The Republican
administration declared war against
Spain with Bryan's approval, for he be-
came colonel of regiment; 1t adopted
the Paris treaty of peace, and entered
the Philippines with Bryans approval.
No Democrat will deny this. All thought
full Americans regret the bloodshed in
those islands, and earnestly hoped to
1t stopped. But Bryan helped Mckinley
certainly, he did not mean for the United
States to pay twenty millions of dollars
and get out "a the first clash of arms No;
for in his speech of acceptance Bryan
himself proposes the three following
plans:
l. To give the Filipinos a stable govern
ment.
q To grant them their independence
J. To protect them against other ma
lions; and, then, he says the United States
is entitled to Manila and that we should
get it from the Filipinos. Now, how can
we give the islands a stable government
without interfering in their affairs; and
how could we protect them without super
vising their intercourse with other ma
tons? Bryan is inconsistent in his hue
and cry against Mckinley, when, if he
were President and Were to attempt to do
what he advises, as l have just told you,
he would have to fight, bad as it is or
get out, and that without ceremony. But
he proposes thatS the United States get
Manila from the Filipnos; and, the way.
he. puts 1t, our request for the city of Ma
Mia would be a demand. Do you think we
could get it in any peaceful way? Sup
pose Bryan had been President when the
annexation of Hawaii was up; he would
have said: We don't want you: we will
give you stable government and protect
you against other nations, but you must
give us Honolulu and Hilo. Well, even if
you think that That would not have been
bad scheme, have you stopped to think
why Bryan does not want the Philippines?
The Democrats say because it can never
become Territory or a State. Why?
-. NO COLOR DISTINCTION.
Because the islands are not inhabited by
white men. The Democrats say this is a
white mans country: we would like to
annex Canada, where white men dwell,
but We don't want to get mixed up with
brown men, black men, yellow men and
Malays. Remember they do not stand
for liberty and for the equality of all men
before the law. They stand for the liber-
ty and equality of white men. Understand
me- our Democrats here are mostly grand
men; and many Northern Democrats are
good men. In the South, too, are men
who were Union men before the war, and
their sons are Republicans; but they are
compelled to leave their Southern home to
enjoy to the fullest life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. When / denounce