The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-05
A FRIGHT
OVER THE
FRANCHISE
Home Rule Organ
In Quite a
Furry.
COMMISSIONER TO
WATCH CONGRESS
Two Petitions to Go Forward
Urging No Abatement of
Voting Power.
r R1GHTENED over the reports o


an endeavor at Washington to
- amend the organic act so as to
abridge the franchise of the Hawaii
ans, the Home Rulers are working
themselves into frenzy. 1t is under
stood that there is being prepared a
monster petition which is to be sent on
to Washington, and according to the
"Kuokoa Home Rula," the plan of
sending a commissioner to work
against any such change is being con-
sidered seriously. Upon this phase of
the subject the organ named says:
1T is necessary that a set OF resolu-
tions be Immediately prepared, with a
call for a large mass meeting, to take
place in the city of Honolulu, for the
purpose of considering the question OF
sending Hawaiian commission with full
powers at once, to the field of duty at
Washington; and also as bearers of the
resolutions to be presented to President
Roosevelt, the Senate and TO the House
OF Representatives.
IF we send a Hawaiian Commissioner
with full authority person of learning
and of ability-and also an independent
person in all manner and form, this win
add weight to the resolution presenta-
ton to the law making Houses of OH
Father Government, and of the Ameri-
can people. This is not all; but the Ha
waiian people must be the lookout
and be fully prepared, when the petition
is presented to them for their signatures,
that all native Hawaiians who are quail
flied voters, residents of the several Rep
resentative Districts of the Territory,
shall sign them at once so that the pc
tition will be returned without delay.
The nation must beware of fraudulent
documents. None is genuine but those
presented to them by the leaders of the
National Party, known as the true
Aloha Asnas.
THE Commissioner will be sent on
first bearing the resolutions, and the Pc
titions will be sent on later. 1t will also
be well for the Hawaiian women to sign
a separate petition which will be prepar-
ed for them; all females from the age OF
fifteen years and over. and also young
men not of the voting age, from the age
OF fifteen years and upwards, and those
OF the qualified voters should sign the
petition
.sThese petitions will be dispatched to
their destination like unto the rushing
waters of a storm. AS a rushing torrent,
onward in its mad course. covering all
the fields a deiuge.
This will prove TO the Congress that
we are a people who can appreciate and
do jealousy guard those sacred rights
which we have
In another portion of the paper ap-
pears the following, which is printed
under the heading: "Ingratitude to Ha-
waii:''
.On the Tuesday just passed informa-
ton was received by US which Is import
ant news for the Hawaiian people, and
which may cause us all to weep. This
will result if the task of strangling us,
a la pig. is successfully accomplished by
the mercenarieS of our enemies, who are
struggling in their efforts to influence the
Congress of United States of America,
Hartwell was sent by the rattle-brained
Governor Dole and the Missionary Prot
estant Republican party, to oppose us
and deprive us Of manhood suffrage,
the right which was given us by the |
United States of America, our tatneT |
C,oyernment-the right to vote
"A bill has been prepared Sby these !
parties to be presented to Congress; to |
the Senate and the House of Representa- |
tives: limiting the qualifications OF the |
native Hawaiians in the right of suf- |
fraee The Nation should be ever watch |
fuI I'm the future and should jealousy |
ouard and protect this precious right, for |
:, means our existence or our destruc-
ZION These are the doing of the Prot
estant Missionary Repuoicans, VINO are
., ,1prea sonabIy embttered and so ven~
o-,o,s thar we may be poisoned by their |
,o,,cb-like unto the fangs of the DEATH
JaaIinr snake. This is really the work
of a venomous snake. with jealousies
- sniuosities emplanted within it,
80, apd which with malice seeks the
t,struction of we of the Hawaiian Race.
No, satisfied with our being buried alive
=, KaIaupapa and Kalawao. they are
now doing all in their power to deprive
the Hawaiians we or the Drown ShiiiS'
of all of our rights.
..Auvrei Auwei IA make ka Lahul
. Here we are: whittier are we hoat-
- Tho graves for our burial are now
Isine dug by the Republicans
These people are hunting Us 1o" -
.-,,.-Ia ms as pigs: they are all of the
same flock. Therefore they must be re-