The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-20
]. EMMELUTH. DEMAGOGuE.

| The speech made by John Emmeiuth
at Maemae Church, Nuuanu valley,
was that of the hveriest blatherskite.
Emmeluth. though. himself member
of the revolutionary committee that de-
throned the Queen, now tellsthe natives
that the white man, Id 1888, took away
/ their rights'' II the white man diI SO,
then Emmeluth Is particep4 crirninis.
not only in the first Instance butsin carr
rying gun for years afterward to pro-
tect his share of the splunder." 1t was
very plain In his Maemae speech that
he wanted the natives to believe that
he stood out in 1888 against extreme
measures. The truth is that he was
foremost in demanding them. To the
| proclamation of January II, 1893, re-
moving the Queen and her Ministers
John Emmeluth's name stands attach
ed. He also signed the proclamation
(the first man in the list calling upon
the people to supply the Government
with arms At the haole meeting
at the Rifles Armory, on the night pre-
ceding the revolution Emmeluth made
revolutionary speech of which the
following report appeared in this jour
nal the next morning:
]. Emmeluth wished to say few words
on the situation. He had heard the
Queens speech at the Palace and noted
the expression of her face. 1t was fieDd-
ish When the petitioners filed out he re-
Elected on the fact that thirty men could
paralyZe the business of the community
for twenty-four hours. 1t was not they
that did it but the schemers behind them.
and perhaps a woman. too. 1t was not
the Hawaiians that wanted the new Con-
stitution; not those that worked. This
was the third time that he had shut his
doors, let his men go. and come up to
this building. This would be the last
time. If we <&et this time go We would
deserve all We got An opportunity came
Fonoe in every lifetime. 1t had come to
US and IL We finished as we should, a
repetition of last Saturday would never
occur in this country again. (Applause.)
We must stand shoulder to shoulder.
There was but one course to pursue and
we would all see 1t. The (Queen's) mani
fosto of this morning was bosh. II won't
do ii any more; but give me chance and
I'll do it again." If the Queen had sue
ceeded last Saturday, myself and you
would have been robbed of the privileges
without which no white man can live in
this community Fear not, be not
afraid" was written in my Bible by my
nc Their twenty-five years ago. Gentle
men, / have done AS far as the Hawaii
ans are concerned, all nave an atona TOT
them, and we wish to have laws enabling
US TO live peaceably together.
That was the Emmeluth Of 1893; now
we have an Emmeluth, who. for the
sake of votes, tries to conceal the rec
ord of those days and delude the ma
tives into the belief that he was OPP
posed to the revolution of 1893 which
took away their rights, The Adver-
tiser and the Kuokoa together will see
that the natives are amply and fire.
quently reminded of the truth.
Nor does Emmeluth confine his dema-
gogy to politics. He abuses the plant
ers and says that they enriched them
selves at native expense. Yet for two
years past Emmeluth has been strug-
Cling, tooth and nail, to become a
planter himself. And how can he talk
as he does of greed and robbery when.
as one of the choice spirits of the
plumbing trust. he holds up native and
haole alike? sifg
There have been many blatherskites
in Hawaiian politics, including Celso
Caesar Moreno, but John Emmeluth is
the most arrant humbug of the lot.
Il