The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-24
CARRIERS HAWAII TOUR

you send there the benefit of the ex-
Iperience have gained in handling your
affairs-at the same time 1 want from
your representatives the knowledge
that they will bring of your wishes
We want besides our schools and good
roads. law and order maintained, and
we also want if possible some reduc-
ton in the expenses and the tightening
of the burden of taxation.
when 1 look around and see Won
all, you representative men OF the
soil, you men who labor, it gives me
the greatest satisfaction 10 be among
| you.
1.-THE object of my visit is to get ac-
| quainted with you. 1t is easier for me
to come to you than it is for you to
go to Honolulu. I wanI 70 meet you,
get acquainted with you and find out
| your needs.
"I hope that during my a1ministra-
ton, Divine Providence will so guide
my acts that when 1 retire at the end
of four years there Will be many of
you Hawaiians who will feel that the
Territorial government is a good gov
ernment--is one that satisfies ana
pleases you. And hope that you viii
be patriotic and help me in every way
you can.
Now to you old gentlemen that are
in this audience, with your gray hairs
to which we all show respect born un-
der the Hawaiian flag. reared under
it, and filled with an aloha for it, I
say to you that I respect the aloha you
have for il and If you want that flag
to be your Territorial flag and fly over
your buildings, 1 say let it fly; but we
say also to you that a change has come
here, and the wisest and best men be-
lteve that change is for your beJleft.
TALK WITH ROOSEVELT.
"In one of the few conversations L
had with the President Of the United
States, Theodore Roosevelt, he said %
me, L want an administrator in Ha-
wall that respects, satisfies ana pleas
es the people of that country who we're
born there. I want the children born
in Hawaii to grow up to respect and
revere the Stars and Stripes and so
say, I hope at the end of my four
years, will find Hawaiians-grown-up
young men, who, when asked what
they are, will not say as so many of
them say, We are Hawaiians,' but will
say, We are Americans and a part of
that great union which has done so
much to raise humanity W ana done
so much for the races of every color
and every tag and every CLINE.
Now as I close I will be very glad
indeed if Mr.. Holstein will call on some
of you to tell me of your wants. Do
you want new roads or new wharves.
or new schoolhouses or new buildings?
Or do you want new homesteads-or
what?
1T want to again thank you for the
I,n. AL
characteristic of Hawaii Their hos
pitality is equaled by no other people
and I want to tell you that no matter
what comes I will not forget you nor
the way you have come out here today.
1t gives me the greatest encouragement
and if the Hawaiian people will work
with me I will do everything in my
power for their benefit. Our delegate
in Congress was a schoolmate of mine
and it gave me the greatest of pleasure
to help elect him. Now that he is in
Congress it gives me great pleasure to
write to him and give him all the as
siStance 1 can. I believe he will ac-
complish as much in Congress as any
individual can. Aloha" prolonged
applause.)
SOME PILIKIA.
~NNeAiiis a AAeNtANCy ilCAL 1leiQ Tic 4OOIS
and talked of the needs of the valley
beyond PoIolu which he said was in
"pilikia.' He evidently didn't like it
because the party didn't go there and
investigate.
SENATOR KAOHI TALKS.
Senator Kaohi said in part: LET us
not take into consideration the fact
that the Governor is the progeny of
He was born in Hawaii
and is a Hawaiian and we should do
all we can to help him.
WHERE IS COUNTY ACT4
"I want to ask one question" said
Ben, native who had no other name
That is, why was the County Act
knocked out? Can the Governor ex-
plain that?"
II only wish I knew" replied the
Governor. IF I knew 1 might find a
way of changing it, because have al
ways stood for the County Act--I al
ways believed the government was too
centralized; and if we can get a Coun-
" Act through Congress we are going
to try and do it. If we fail in Con-
gress. like the man who fails down,
we can only get up and try again.
HE Is WITH U.s.
Il have >heard the governors an
swer," said Ben, land L can see he is
With us for county government and I
trust my impertinence will be par
ioned."
Joe Hussey also spoke in Hawaiian,
saying that as the governor favored
The district as the first one to be Wis
ted he knew he would help the people
If Kohala.
Continued tomorrow
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