The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-16

Philippines, and squeaked in quavering
chorus give them up!" (Applause.)
A SENTENCE OF SHAME.
VIII this nation consent to write such
a sentence of shame across the fair
brow of our Goddess and bid her close
her ears to the jeers of Europe and
proceed to give up the Philippines
Rather let US adopt the indignant an
swer of the unregenerate but patriotic
news-boy and cry "to he'll with give
| them up
No, we will not give them up We
will accept and fulfil the responsibility
and the duty which the God of Battles
has rested upon us. The awakening of
Asia, the development of the resources
OF the Philippines, the growth of COM
Inercegaround and across the vast clip
tic Of seas, whose trade currents con-
| verge here, viii make Of Honolulu a
great and opulent city, and her people
| Will never vote for the candidates of
a party which proposes to give them
up" And this nation will never give
! them up for its steps are forward;
| its legions are marching for progress,
| for prosperity, for freedom, and those
who attempt to stand in the way of its
advance Will be beaten down and cover
ed up by the tide of patriotic public
sentiment, even as the tide in the Bay
of Fundy advances with voice of thun-
| der and crest of foam, and submerges
| the rocks and sands that lie in it's path.
FOR FORTY SIX YEARS.
I should extend this address far be-
yond the limits of your patience were
1 to attempt to further discuss national
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cannot be gainsayed is that for forty
six years the Democratic party mas
espoused every fantasy in finance, and
every fad in philosophy, and every
phase of fool politics with which the
people of this country have been tor
mented. For forty-six years Democrats
have advocated wild, and weak, and
wicked measures. For forty-slx years
all the policies which they favored
have been rejected by the people, and
all the principles which they opposed
have been adopted into organic and
statute law, until it really seems as #
they have gone wrong so long, that
| they have become morally and consti-
tutionally incapable of going right.
THE TWO RECORDS.
The past can neither be forgotten nor
ignored. The record is always in evil
dence. Today we stand by our party
record and Democrats repudiate theirs
We boast of our party deeds and they
apologize for theirs. We spread every
leaf of our history to the sun, and they
pray that every page of theirs may be
blotted until it shall become as unde-
cipherable as the hieroglyphics of
Egypt.
We invite Democrats and we invite
the world to throw its search-lights up
on the Republican record. There is not
a page of it which Republicans are
ashamed or afraid TO unfold. The Re-
publican party gave homes to the land
less though Democracy voted No! 1t
gave freedom to the slave though
Democracy No! 1t gave one flag to
history. to humanity and to hope
without a stripe erased or polluted or
single star obscured," though Demo-
cracy voted No, 1t gave the Confeder-
ate debt to the waste baskets of
It drove the free trade wolves of
Poverty and Hunger away from the
workers door, though Democracy voted
No! (Applause.)
And today this great, proud, free,
prosperous nation owes it's prosperity,
its freedom. its greatness and its power
to the success of Republican policies
and the wisdom of Republican states
men.
Permit me in conclusion to offer few
thoughts in connection with local poll
tics.
THE LABOR PROBLEM.
It is the laudable desire of all good
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can civilfza ton. This can only be done
by developing a foundation of Ameri-
can industries, on which shall be build
ed a superstructure of American homes.
The great Napoleon said that an army
travels upon its belly. and this is as
true of the industrial as of the military
army American civilization depends
upon the bread and butter supplies Of
the civilizers You cannot induce an
American to come here or stay here un-
less he can earn something. In order
to earn he must have work to do, and
somebody to pay him for doing it. If
you foster policy that will destroy or
cripple the sugar industry of these ISL
ands all other industries viii fall with
it, for all other industries are depend
ent upon it. 1t is beating che air with
vain words to say that it is better to
have an American community, than to
have industrial prosperity, for if your
industrial prosperity is destroyed, you
will not have an American or any other
kind of community. 1ne American
who journeys here from the Mainland
Will not be content to sit in idleness
and hunger, and drape the stars and
stripes around his empty dinner table.
When he cannot find a job he will find
a ship to take him where he can obtain
job. (Applause.)
The sugar industry depends for its
success upon a kind of cheap labor
which no American ever consented to
undertake, and which L hope to God
no American will ever be compelled to
perform. it is dirty, disagreeable, SER
vile labor. The Portuguese work out of
it in a few years; the Porto Ricans
shirk out of it in a few months; the
japanese drop it as soon as they can
find other employment, and the Hawai-
ians who labor cheerfully in the taro
fields, and in the shops where they soon
become skilfuI mechanics, draw the line
at the plantations, and will live on poi
and raw fish rather than work in them.
(Cries Of That's SOD