The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-12
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and gave him. outright, an equal
chance at the ballot with the whites.
The only papers in America that crit
icised the grant were Democratic pa
pers in the Southern States. And SO
well satisfied are Republicans here
with the arrangement that they have
nIedged themselves over and over again
to do their best to maintain 1t. Gap
plause)
You have all heard it said that the
Republican party is not the party of
the poor man. but of the millionaire
the plutocrat Is it true we have our
rich members; but, fellow citizens,
there are less than 10000 millionaires
in the United States, a lot of them
. Democrats, and there are between sew
en- and eight millions of Republican
voters So the millionaires are a.
mighty small fraction of the whole par
ty. I admit freely that Republican
policies made most of them and made
them out of poo$ boys to whom they
gave a field to work in of prosperous
business and protected industry. And
they also made some millions of we'll
to-do people, men and women OF all
trades, who, under the Republican sys-
tenn of building UP home market,
found plenty to do at good pay. Most
of them began poor, but made the best
of the chance which Republican states
manship opened up for them. Do /
hear. some Democrat say that all this
came of natural causes, that the Re-
publican party did not make the crops
grow nor open up the Alaska mines.
Granted! But a Republican Congress
and President gave the Western farm
ers the homesteads upon which they
grow their corn and wheat and by
grants of land enabled railroads to con-
meet them with market. And Re-
publican President and Congress bought
Alaska with its mines and opened up
Colorado and its mines and gave them
TO the people. And this sort of thing
is going on all the time. Wilcox says
he wants to give every Hawaiian some
OF the public land of these islands to
run diaries on. IL he could do it, from
whom would he get the land. He
doesn't own any. Talk about dairies!
Why it takes another man to pay his
milk bill. daughter and applause.) He
would have to get that land of the Re-
publicans-of a Republican President
and Congress. And don't you think,
fellow citizens, that a Republican,
Republican like Prince Cupid-could get
it good deal easier than Wilcox, who
now calls himself an enemy of Repub-
licans?
The Democratic party calls itself the
party of the poor man. If it is, I'll tell
you why: it is because it makes him
poor and KEEPS HIM POOR. Iaugh-
ter and appIause.) The country always
has hard times under Democratic rule;
and it generally has good times under
Republican rule; and that is because,
as 1 have said, the Republican party
gives every working man chance to
get ahead in the world. Nor will the
Hawaiian be any exception unless he
chooses to be. Hawaii kept him poor,
that is the Hawaii of the old regime
But now that he is an American he
has just as good a chance as Andrew
Carnegie had when he landed in the
United States without dollar If he
will be as Industrious and foresighted
as was the young Scotchman why
should he not get along as we'll? But
he can't do anything for himself by liv-
ing in his own past. Doing that he
puts handicap on his energy. Back
in Bible times the apostle cried to be
That was because they hung a long
dead carcass about his neck and made
him wear it. Any of you who dig up
an old political carcass of Hawaii-any
of us. / mean. white man or Hawaiian
and bind it about our necks, will take
none of the prizes in the race for emin-
ence or wealth. We will simply make,
nuisances of ourselves. The thing to do
is to get into the new life of Hawaii,
the new American life, and without
ciogging ourselves with old prejudices
and old issues, make it our business to
get ahead as fellow Americans When
the Hawaiian does that, look out for
him. Don't think he has no capacity
to move along. He raised great men
in the times of tribal war; he even
raised some rich men in later times
when the majority of the race were
held down; soon, under the American
example. taking the chance that Re-
publican prosperity offers him, he ought
to produce men of standing in all the
departments of life.
But am not through about the Re-
publican party being that of the wage
Garner, the toiler. the man of small
cap1tal and large hopes. Right here
want to tell these Hawaiians that the
Itepupucdh party mas III nine cases out
of ten, made its Presidents out of the
raw material of labor. There was
railsplitter once in Illinois. Abraham
Lincoln, man who worked by the day
in his boyhood, studying by the light
of an open fire. He was the first and
greatest of REPUBLICAN Presidents. The
Democrats tried to beat him first with
starched and ruffled aristocrat; and
%,iaC To
with an aristocrat from West Point.
They are not all aristocrats there but
the man the Democrats named against