The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-05

Appeal.
WILCOX MUST
BE BEATEN
SURELY.

The following appeal from the
merchants of Honolulu to their
employees and persons doing bust
ness with them has been signed by
many of the representative business
houses of Honolulu. More undoubted-
ly would have signed but that IL was
only put in circulation on Saturday:
TC THE VOTERS HOLDING BUSI-
NESS RELATIONS, By EMPLOY
MEN'T OR OTHERWISE, WITH THE
UNDERSIGNED.
The business houses of Honolulu have
seldom. IL ever, as body, taken part in
the elections of the country. The GER
tainty, however. of serious and lasting in
jury to the good name of Hawaii and her
commercial interests and prosperity IL
r. w. Wilcox is elected to the Congress
Of the United States and his following
to the ~ aFI.egislature, on the 9th of this
ltnoafH.l lmpels US to this protest and ap-
peal. The fact that The business commu-
nifty of Honolulu representing such di-
vergent interests, has unhesitatingly come
together as one man against the Wilcox
ticket furnishes convincing proof of the
utter undesirability of that ticket and
the complete absence of confidence in it's
personnel This protest might well be ad-
f, dressed to the country at large, but it
has been thought best that il should be
confined substantially TO those whose di-
rect relations with the business interests
represented by the undersigned. would
make the defeat of the Wilcox ticket a
matter OF special concern to them.
We are informed that hundreds of la
bCrers around the docks and in the ware
houses of the city. employed by us either
permanently or from time TO time when
I've have work to give. are being led by
Mr.. Wilcox and his following to believe
. q -
guard and protect the interests of those
who furnish them employment, and that
the employer and employe have no inter
ests in common. We wisn to call the at
tention OF all such, and of all others re-
ceiving employment from our houses
and OF all receiving credits from us, thai
our ability 10 furnish employment and tC
give credits rests solely upon the prosper
ity of the country and the confidence OF
capital, both here and abroad, in the sta
bility and integrity OF our government
Should Wilcox and his following secure
control of the country, 1t would stop the
influx of capital from abroad and drive
out an immense amount OF capital nov
CT ployed in the country and furnishing
Iemunerative employment to thousands.
In brief any injury to the business in
terests of Hawaii as a whole must inevi
tably reach and inture every man q
whom we are now able to give employ
HenI 10 our hawaiian eTnDiONeS. anu
/ In fact. TO all Hawaiians we say, Pay n,
; attention to the senseless and mischievou
; accusations of Wilcox and his following
that we are enemies Of the Hawaiian peo
r pie. We have steadily given Hawaiian
2 the preference whenever we have ha
I work TO be done. We are now payini
2 hundreds of thousands OF dollars yearl
1 to Hawaiian employees. and we hope an
trust that we will be able to continu
7 such employment and increase II. W
. ask in return of you that you shoul
! realize that our ability to do this dc
4 pends largely upon the selection of wis
, and able men to administer the govern
2 ment so that confidence in Hawaii an
! her business interests may increase her
9 and abroad. And we urge you, in you
4 own interests as well as ours. not to al
rest the development and progress of tn
country by helping to place in power me
who always have and always will brin
trouble and disaster to you.
Il N. HACKFELD & CO, LTD: Pal
. Isenberg. president.
: VIM. G.. IRWIN &c CO., LTD: by II
vice president. w NJ Giffard.
CASTLE & COOKE. LTD; +. d. Tel
? Trey. secretary.
i F. A. SCHAEFER & co.
: THEO. II DAVIES & CO. LTD: ]
4 NJ. Swanzy. director.
dl HONOLULU IRON WORKS CO.: I
ilF. VI. Swanzy. president.
i G.. BREWER e. CO., LTD: Z. f. Bisl
n lop, treasurer.
d NJ. s. GRINBAUM e. CO, LTD; c. 30
ii D., vice president.
81 THE BANK OF HAWAII. LTD; I
n PChas. n Cooke, president.
% CLAUS sPRECKELs & CO.: E.
Spalding.