The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-02


BRYANISM is RUIN
Now what does the election of Rrvan
mean to the people of these Islands? IT
means that the very best which he offers
/ 10 us for our sugar is a fraction over two
cents pound; or he proposes to give us
Il, cents on dollar which you cannot ex-
Ichange for full dollars equivalent any-
Where That cuts the price OF our sugar
/ tuoWn TO less than one gold cent. We can
mot raise sugar for one cent a pound
What Is to become of the people of these
Islands on that kind of proposition?
| therefore L contend that you people of
the Hawaiian Islands are interested in
national issues. 1t is for you people to
stand by that party which has ever since
/ the reciprocity treaty and up to the an
ineTation of these Islands, done so much
for them. | venture to say that you who
lived here previous to the signing Of the
reciprocity treaty, know how much bet
ter off you are since those times
! speaking of the Accent dollar Of Mr.
Bryan, that leads up to the old issue and
TO what is meant by 16 to 1. After one
lof our distinguished citizens stated pub
llicly that even Mr. Bryan did not know
what 10 to l meant 1 would hesitate to
say what thought Of it and its meaning.
But when one of the leaders of the Dem
locratie party who was sent to Kansas
CITY and is asked to explain that measure
of the Democratic platform and says he
does not even believe the leader of the
Democracy can unravel it's meaning 1
Will not hesitate to make 1t clear I only
look back four years to the time when a
great majority gave to Mr.. Mckinley the
presidency. I say that the great majority
of people in the United States who gave
Mckinley that great majority know what
that fallacy means"
TALK ON MONEY.
The speaker then went on to explain the
arguments of the free silveriteS, illus
trs ting his talk with silver dollars-one
an American and the other a Mexican
He stated that if Bryan We're elected it
would mean the unlimited coinage of sill
Yer at the ratio of IS to and the result
would be that the dollar would not be
worth 100 cents, but would sink down to
the value of a Mexican dollar, and the
ocean greyhounds would pour In their sill
gVer by the ton and carry away all our
gold in place of it. The nation would be-
come bankrupt and sink to the level of
Mexico China or India. He stated that
with silver on this basis he had the expe-
irience in Hongkong of having to hire a
Itwo-horse vehicle to carry about enough
money to make his purchases. The Dem
locratic party was willing even to stultify
Itself by raising the cry of imperialism.
The only territory annexed to the United
States up to the last two years, with the
exception of Alaska had been annexed by
the Democratic party. A perusal of the
new spapers of the time when Seward car
ried on the diplomatic relations by which
Alaska was bought from Russia, shows
that the Democrats accused Seward of
everything under the sun in connection
with the deal, going so far as to say that
he made something out of 1t for himself.
The speaker asked if Bryan would
today advocate selling Alaska for
the amount paid for it. He did
not think so The American peo-
pie would stand for proposition of
the kind. And yet Alaska could not be
compared with the beautiful Hawaiian
Islands. The Democrats say that the
nexation of Hawaii was a mistake and
that the Hawaians will never make good
citizens and should never have been al
lowed to come into the Union; this was a
false argument, he contended. But for
the steadfastness of the great head of
the Republican party, President McKin-
ley and for the great men in Congress
who fought for the annexation of the ISL
ands the speaker said, Hawaii would to-
day be but a small atom and the Demo-
o. cratic party, had it been IN power, would
. have cast the Islands adrift and left them
n 10 their own resources. The American
- people Were not afraid of the issue which
has been placed upon them by the Re
, publican party. They will make of Porto
,a Rico and the Philippines what they did
b, thirty years ago of Alaska.
10 THE LABOR QUESTION.
~ Taking UP the planks in the platform
which were of local nature, Mr.. Hay
= wood spoke first IF the labor cCntht;Cns
'e here. Labor would alwav5 be to these
III Islands important subject He was OF
- the opinion hat the trainers "t the ma
" tional platform document meant that nj
,. fms of mac1auicll labor, ti.ose duties
at which freefns1 could perform where suf-
" ficient wages are being paid II allow tbs
rn Garner of them to educate his children
s. should be given to American citizens
C. leaving to the Asiatics who were brough
IL here for a certain purpose those positions
which they can always find available t
them. He hoped the day would soon come
when Hawaii would see only good regis
IS tered voters, American citizens, perform
ne ing a labor which would be credit U
- them, and that for all this labor eign
- hours would constitute a days work.
Sc The next thing would be for the Legis
Mt lature to consider what kind of a Govern
n ment the Islands are to have in the fu
ture He would not undertake to say wha
So he thought was best for them. However
is it seemed absolutely noce ssary that
en- Hawaii was to follow the spirit Of Am :
on icanism they would give each Island ar
at each city, Home ltule. This would he on
I'd of the first things to consider. t wa
We. also the duty to ascertain from the sever
he al candidates how they stand on this sub
y ject,
he MONEY FOR THE QUEEN.
a. There was another plank in the pla'
oil form which he thought should nave care
:, full consideration by the Legislature I'M
IN was the one which s.,at ,1aor,l
CIV of the Molokai leper settlements and 10
~ an equitable arrangement for those wh
~ suffered during plague times. To 90
rn- would be to carry out the sense OF Jus
igs uce "hich Is liie siedt
he citizenship.
ioa He dIIated on the plank which proVloe
ws for Queen Liiuokalani. He was OF In u
~ orinion that the people Of Hawaii @ snouI
ar make some Just and adequate coiIip ilpTIn;r
he ton Tor the tluesn l.iI- +t,a+ CONGRESS coul
not see its way clear to settle TINS Ha' ma
- ter. He was certain that the repugna,ne
10 of citizens in the United states az IN.
,rd establishing
our CONTINUED on Pags -