The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1902-09-01
FIRST CAMPAIGN Gun
THURSTON DELIVERS
ADDRESS.
Strong Speech BY Able Man-Advan-
tages of the Republican Party-Dele-
gate Should BE a Republican.

gate Should BE a Republican.
The United States government ought
not to have taken away the revenues
of your ports without giving you some
thing adequate in return. ii should not
have depleted your revenues unless it
gave you something of equal value
from which you could derive revenue
to carry on your local affairs. L think
it is only necessary to have that ques-
ton brought to Congress and the pro-
per appeal made through the proper
representative to have this matter
Strengthened out, and this imposition
will cease
In the above language ex-senator
John NJ Thurston, during his address
at the Orpheum on Saturday night,
held out hopes of an amendment of the
Organic Act whereby Hawaii Will no
longer lose the millions of dollars taxi
en- out of the islands in customs rev.
enue since annexation. Whatever
Congress has done Inadvertently said
Thurston will be righted as soon as
it is brought to the attention and sense
of justice of Congress- He stated that
the Organic Act Of Hawaii had been
passed during the crisis of war with
SPAN, ana IndI II naturally COHIdllleu
some imperfections.
In an eloquent address of an hour
and a half Senator Thurston emphasize
ed over and over again the fact that
the United States Government is one
controlled by parties and impressed
upon his audience the need of sending
a delegate to Washington who can
work with Republicans or Democrats,
in committee and in Congress, in or
der that Hawaii $ needs might have the
proper hearing.
The speaker was introduced by LOr-
rim Andrews, president of the Young
Mems Republican club. He began by
references 70 the past that Hawaii
was now part of the Great Republic.
You have come under it's flag, and it
is change in your political history
he said. Many of you, perhaps, came
under it more or less unWillingly; but
you have submitted to the inevitable
destiny of this twentieth century For
it is inevitable to the progress of the
great nations of the world, that the
weaker peoples who in the rush and
strife may not be able to protect and
care for themselves, must come under
the protection and guidance of some
one of the great nations. | say to you
that you will live to acknowledge that
] am right in declaring that ii was well
for you that one Of the great, progress
i've liberty-loving nations of the world
brought you in, and gave you a place
in the destinies Of the American people.
In coming to the United States for
action in your behalf you must not for
get what l have already said that pro-
gress in a nation is through political
parties. To achieve something in the
United States in the way of your ma
terra advancement, you cannot expect
to receive a proper hearing or to Sc
cure adequate legislation unless your
needs and necessities and demands are
brought to the attention of one OF the
two great political parties of the Unit
ed States.
In the United States there are but
two great political parties. Either one
or the other of these parties for three
quarters of a century has held the
destinies of the United States in It's
grasp. What has been accomplished
has been through the instrumentality
of these great parties.
You might as well send frog to
clipper at the doors of the Court of st.
James for what you want as to send
to Washington a delegate who is not
one of or in harmony with either Of
is not a political theory-it is polti-
cal fact
The United States in expanding is
being brought into contact with other
races, and there is the utmost danger
that in some of our new possessions
race prejudices may arise. Nothing
could be so unfortunate for the destiny
of a people such as are in these islands
as to have the least possibility or dam
ger apparent of any race prejudice
among our common citizenship. If race
prejudice should arise, if those natives
unto the manor born should see fit
to raise the question among themselves
and those who are citizens by adoption,
evil results must be born. The Repub-
lican party has settled that great ques-
ton.
There is not an honorable wish of
the people of these islands, there is not
an aspiration of an honorable kind,
that you can possibly form, there is not
an act of justice that you can reason
ably ask, that the American people, in
and out of Congress, are not willing to
advocate for you.
Today you are most important to
the United States, because you are the
outpost of our Pacific sea commerce.
You are most valuable to us, because
you stand here, as l might say, the
gateway to the Orient. l don't believe
you fully understand it. l don't be-
lieve that we on the mainland yet know
how important a feature in the in
creasing and expanding commerce will
become the islands of Hawaii and the
city of Honolulu.
There is one thought to be borne in
mind. We cannot make these islands
as important as we would; we cannot
do for you all that your conditions may
require, without your energetic coop
Grafton and assistance. ana do ,,o,,