The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-26

Kindly Light. Lead Thou Ne en- they
we're nieading for a light to heal them out
of TIL, gloom and darkness OF the Demo-
cratic administration of Grover Cleveland
In which the country was suffering at
that time All industries Were stalled.
= he fires in the furnaces were banked;
men were idle; the great charity houses
wero overcrowded.
1.-TWO wears later it will be seen that
change was coming. ara instead OF chant
ing Lead, Kindly Light the people began
to sing. The Morning Light X Breaking
for the nomination of William Mckinley
fo,. the Presidency had beer announced
and the hearts of the people were opened
anew to the coming again of prosperity.
cr.And now after four wears o. Republic
can administration instead Of cnantins
II cad Kindly Light the people are sing
ing the battle hymn of the Republic,
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Coming CT the
Glory of the Lord.
WHAT TtE SAW HIMSELF.
1T want to tell you few things Of r,y
own knowledge, things that observed in
the dark days CT the Cleveland admins
tration and when this country went
through four years of trial and travail. L
made trip from Chicago to the center IF
the State of Ohio in December 1892, AMI
everywhere in the Buckeye State where
once had been beehives Of industry the
streets of the towns were filed wi.h idle
men, Few stacks were belchng forth
the fires of industry. And so II continued
for four yours. In Chicago after the
Worlds Fair when the heavy winter came
on, 1t was my duty to go to the police sta
tons in company with newspa pe:' men 20
write up the great number of men ,here
seeking place to sleep at night ont from
the cold, and to write up something Of
that great army of the unemployed.
THE CONDITIONS TODAY.
What are the conditions today?" The
speaker then went into an rXhaus' i've
treatment of the condition If the great
railway systems of the United States dur
ing the Cleveland administration, v'nen
many of them went into the hands IF re-
ceivers and men were DISCHARGED by the
hundreds. During the administration of
Mckinley the railroads had received an
impetus for betterment. There were less
railroads in the hands of the receivers.
All had felt the wave of prosperity. Those
which wished to build and extend ,heir
lines were unable to do so on account of
the lack Of rails. The Union Pacific, in
order to handle the great amount of traf-
fc which rolled over the system. needed
a double and even triple se- OF tracks,
but rails could not be gotten. In every
city signs were hanging out, 'A1en Want
ed and they could rot be found. The
speaker recalled the great Coxey army
illONtIucHl III WHICH men S6tHcIeu
all Parts of the United States and march
ed to Washington behind General Jacob
Coxey. This was because the men We're
idle. Coxey armies were not heard CT at
the present time. Coxey hiIpsalf at pres
ent owns a farm near Mt. Vernon, Ohio
which produced sand Tor casting. He has
become prosperous and has made So much
establishment to cost s250,0G0 aid employ
500 men,"
PRIDE OF CITIZENSHIP.
Mr.. Gill went into the financial status
Of the country under Cleveland. when the
great bond issue was made. Jnder the
Mckinley administration NJ bonds had
been issued in a time of peace. rs it not
Better to be a lender of money than a
borrower? 1 want to say few words to
the Hawaiians. Every man born in The
United States is proud of the State or
Territory of his birth. The New Yorker
is proud to call himself as ne travels
over the United States a son OF the I'm
pre- State. If from Pennsylvania, lie is
proud of he fact he is from the State
that claims as one of it's sons. Hancock.
Like myself, an Ohioan is proud of ills
State because 1t gave to the na1on a
Grant. Garfield. and a Nc t\inley. Cap
plause.) The Hawaiian is proud of his
country. But there is something grea-er
than being a resident of .New York or
o citizen of tho United States. Gap
plausc) When you go to foreign coun-
try you do not say you are a New Yorker
or Buckeye from Ohio or from Hawaii,
but you say, Il am an American citizen.
iApplause) Every Hawaiian Who goes to
the polls on the 9Th of Novemo Der can say
with the poet Whittier. ON this day he
greatest is not greater than I, nor the
highest more high: today a king of men
am L. (Applause.)
CAPTAIN BAKER ELOQUENT.
The trio of soldier boys frcm the trans
potr Grant sang, two of them wearing the
Ped Cross upon their sleeves, Will, the
other appeared in the blue shirt, famous
"a the fighting blouse of the American
soldier. Their first selection was a gree
success and they modestly responded to
an enthusiastic encore.
Captain Baker of the United States
transport Grant, and formerly State
Senator in the Pennsylvania Legislature
was next introduced by Chairman Neu-
mann. He was the special guest of Sam
uel Parker and received an ovation as
ne stepped forward to address The andi-
cree. He said:
"A few years ago in reading a speech
delivered in Congress l was made to be-
lieve that from what the spsalie. said
these Islands were inhabited by Canni-
balls, but 1 can say that I have nowhere
seen a more intelligent audience than the
one which I am addressing tonight. ZAP
plause.)
II do not intend to speak upon your To-
cal issues, for I do not know anything
about them but IL there was ever time
in these Islands when men who have the
elective franchise should vote tie Repub-
lean ticket, 1t Is now. (Appla,se.1 There
Is but one party in the United States that
is familiar tdyou all and that IS the Re-
publican party. There are bu. two ,,ar-
ties in Congress-the Republicans and
the Democrats. There is nc Independent
party in Congress, let me assure you.
daughter 1.-THE people of the United States
o. which you are now a part have said
to you to come into the Union and you
came. That flag, the Stars and Stripes.
was placed over your Islands and will
never be hauled down (ApplauSe.) That
is the history of the United States from,
Bunker Hill to Tien-Tsin. tremendous
applause.)
BUT ONE GREAT PARTY
THE Government of the United States
is not asking anything of you except to
ask you to think carefully ami quietly up
on the question as to which party will
serve your best interests. I have been
in Porto Rico, in Cuba, in the Philippines.
and at this port upon several occasions
and nowhere in these new places have
seen so much prosperity as I have foun