The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-11-03

tutions, or under the delusion that they
and their families, without industry or
ambition, can be housed, fed and sup
piled with pocket money by the nation
or by the Territory.
Each native voter who ranges him
self in this controversy with the Re-
publican ticket, will by that act signify
his entrance into the American broth
erhood and prove his intelligence, his
education, his broad aspirations for
progress on his native soil, his personal
integrity, and his sturdy independence.
Each Democratic voter, who subordi-
mates his party to his Americanism,
who realizes that there is no division
here on any American issue, who be-
lieves in his heart whatever variations
may be essential in methods, that the
interests Of the Islands and of the
mainland are identical, and who casts
his vote accordingly, will stand upon
foundation common to Democrats and
Federals, Wings or Republicans since
the exercise of the right Of suffrage
began, and for that form of government
in which the separate rights, and yet
the intimate union, of municipalities,
territories and states, for the first time
in history have attained to symmetrical
development.
Each labor voter, unionized or non
unionized, who believes that safe
guarding the individual rights of men
and their authority to enter into lawful
combinations for lawful ends depends
upon the constitution and the laws,
supported by the will of the entire
American people, and for these reasons
ignores a home-rule combination that
arrays this territory against all civil
lied nations, will establish his own
identity as a factor in the solution of
world-problems with every other mem
Der of the American fraternity.
Each voter, of whatever origin, class
or race, who refuses to acknowledge
the color line, pushed to the front by
Rule, and in his ballot sees only an
evidence of the value and power of his
American citizenship, will exercise his
suffrage in harmony with all the other
elements of population fit for self-rule,
and will aid in concentrating at Wash
ington fruitful pressure upon the Ma
tional Administration.
Each pretended Republican who, to
further his own petty ends, whether
they be for pelf or for revenge, sits in
the dark and tugs at the strings that
might topple to their fall the municipal
structures that National Republicanism
has placed in Hawaii on American
foundations, is equally a traitor to his
party and his country.
Each genuine Republican, who thinks
that his duty was discharged last year
and today should be performed by his
neighbor, and vino fails to cast his vote
and to exert his legitimate Influence for
all it is worth, will fail in the true con-
ception of his civic obligations and in
due respect for himself, his family, his
fellow citizens and his flag.
Let all citizens of every color, origin,
station, and party antecedents, do their
plain duty at the polls this day, and
a final extinguisher will be placed over
the misnamed faction that repudiates
annexation and the splendid extension
of local trade, commerce, finance and
industry of all kinds that is easily
within our reach.
William T. Rawlins is a college bred
lawyer who has remarkable record of
cases won. He has the habit of indus