Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-10-27
A MAU|TE ON WILCOX
ACCUSES HOME RULER
OF RANK INSlNCERlTY
SAYS DELEGATE ASKED HIM NOT
TO MAKE ANY REPORT OF
HIS SPEECHES TO THE
MAUI PEOPLE.

wailuku, Oct 25.-Your correspond
ent has been taken to task by the
haole admirers of Wilcox in this town
for saying that the Delegate did not
believe all that he said before the pub.
| lie, not only in Wailuku but through
out the Territory. His followers now
say that what meant to infer was that
"wilcox was bloody liar" No. l do
not use such strong language as that
but quite agree with Prince Kalani-
anaole when he spoke at the Wailuku
skating rink last week saying in en-
phatic English that Wilcox was a fall
sifier. What else can he be? Ten years
ago when was engaged on the repor-
torial staff of one of the Honolulu dali
lies, ! was nightly dispatched during
the campaign of 1892 to report the pol
litical speeches OF Wilcox and they can
be found in the files of the Daily Ad-
vertiser Of those hot times.
Wilcox has not changed a bit for the
better His utterances are the same
with the exception of new phrases to
suit the times. such as "brass--eyed
missionaries" "cockroaches," 'goatish.
bearded Dole" etc.
Take his reported speeches of today,
Especially the one in the issue of the
Bulletin of last Monday. dare Wilcox
to repeat the same speech before Con-
gress. Wilcox knows better and he
knows his audience. Demagogic views
which may be palatable to the common
populace will not do before an enlight-
ened audience.
Wilcox is a diplomat and he uses
his art to a nicely before his consti-
tuents. That he Is idolized by the
common people cannot be denied. Fall
lacies uttered by him are taken as logi-
cal truths. Hawaiians with any degree
of intelligence are not followers Of
Wilcox, and never will be. Why? Edu-
cation has taught them the difference
between fallacios and truths. They
know who are the true friends of Ha-
waiians and who are the foes.
Wilcox hates the missionaries be-
cause they are responsible for the high
er education OF the Hawalians. and OF
course educated Hawaiians do not fol-
low Wilcox. On the other hand, vii.
cox loves adventures, liquor men, and
the like, because that class strive to
keep the Hawaians in ignorance, and
thus Wilcox retains his political su,
periority.
Again | repeat that Wilcox does not
believe what he says when he states
before his audience that the Federal
Treasury is so overfiowing with money
that the American people don't know
what to do with It; that there's over
a million trillion dollars in the U. S.
treasury; that the U. S. Government
Molokai for fifty million dollars. drive
the non-lepers from that island and
make the lepers masters OF the whole
island so as to give them more room
to move about and not be penned in by
precipitous mountains as now. Why
credit Wilcox with more intelligence
than the late politician John Kanui
who wanted the U. S. Government 70
give us $25,000,000.
Wilcox has really more intelligence
than we can Judge by his utterances,
but as politician he Is compelled to
say these things to his people whom he
is beguiling In order to retain them as
his followers. II he should tell them
the truth, and tell them that the Hawa-
liian people owe a real debt OF graft
Itude to the missionaries for what they
have accomplished in educating tho
Hawaiian people by elevating them
from the semi-barbarous condition OF
1920 to the exalted position they held
In 1902. Wilcox will soon lose his grasp
upon his people. | am sure that this
Will be his only explanation to make
to his colleagues in Congress wheu
called upon to answer his wild sayings
Thus will Wilcox display his diplom-
acy and meet both extremes. After ad-
dressing a handful Of men and women
at Kahului landing last Saturday after
noon, and before embarking for Homo
lulu per steamer Maui. he ast.ed your
correspondent as a special favor not
to report the remarks he had just made.
1t cannot be said that his modesty SO
penetrated his being that he did not
want his sayings published. No, 1t was
because he was ashamed himself of his
false but diplomatic statements, made
for no other purpose than to catch
ignorant votes. Hence the proof of the
assertion that Wilcox does not believe
what he breaches.