The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-05-03
MY FIRST BRIDE


am member of the House and was
elected from a country district. am
very fair talker, especially on any sub
ject the rights of which appeal to my
sense of justice. During the campaign
in which I was elected I improved ev-
cry opportunity of addressing the peo-
pie and gradually got over any native
timidity I may have had and today go
on the platform feeling that I am the
master of the school. I heard much
during past sessions of the Legislature
of the corruption of members and had
did feather their nests by accepting
brides in one form or another. wish
ed that I could be elected and that
some briber would come to me so that
L could have the opportunity of treat
ing him with the scorn and contempt
which his conduct deserved.
When the House was organized and
bills began to be presented 1 had sew
eraI opportunities of speaking and
found that it was as easy to address
easier, than to address the inhabitants
of a country district with so many of
whom I was well acquainted. Men be-
gan to come to me to second measures
which they proposed and others re-
quested me to father their bills.
There was a gentleman in the city
whom it was always pleasure to meet
as he apparently was we'll posted on
any subject and from whom 1 gained
points which 1 used in my speeches. :
He seldom spoke upon any subject ,
without referring to similar matters !
which had occurred to his knowledge
elsewhere, and the incidents quoted by
him had the effect of irnpressing the :,
subject matter on my memory. / re-
of his telling me of the man
ner in which he compelled a city coun-
ell to fix the charges for water rates
to consumers in a town in California
and of my appreciation of a general
law which protected the people from
4
ton 1t appeared there that the COM
oany was not allowed to charge more
in the aggregate than would produce
seven per cent on it's invested capital.
No direct bribe was offered me and I
-efused several invitations to eat and
rink at a house maintained by man
Who had a pet measure to put through,
n facr had something to dispose of
o the government out of which he
would make a killing. However one Of
saying that the dining there did not I
compel the recipient of the dinner TO
endorse his BILL" After the first plunge
t was easier and things did not appear
o have the ugly blue hue which my
sense of justice had built up. L
Notwithstanding my economy the
our hundred dollars for the session
icon became beautifully less through
he expensive living in the metropolis,
md towards the end of the session L
,ould see that would barely have suf-
icient money to pay my passage nome.
Members began to work towards get
ing an extra session which was one or
he things I had set my face like flint
lgainst when / was leaving nome II {
,egan to dawn on me that was wrong
here too. and il certainly was very ap-
parent that I would be in need of the
xtra pay it would bring.
A great corporation was about to
lsk for a franchise and several OF my
elbow members knew my opinion in re-
,ard to granting franchises. The gen.
1eman friend spoke of had sonJe high ]
deals on that matter. He said it was
| debatable matter whether It Was not