The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-20
CHAMPIONS THE 9TH
DISTRICT STATESMEN
Honolulu, Sept. 18th, 1904.

Honolulu, sept. 18TH, 1914.
Editor Advertiser: Allow me a space
in your worthless, anti-Hawaiian, semi
BARBARIAN and unchristian paper in or
der that you and the public at large
maysknow and learn of what the legis-
lative ticket of the Fifth District is
composed of. Commenting upon an ar
the 18th instant headed Look Over the
! Fifth District Legislative Ticket" and
wishing you to understand what we
Hawaiians are composed of, therefore
on behalf of the body which you have
shamefully attacked, morally and polit
ically take the liberty and responsible
ity of voicing and expressing its senti-
ments III the manner herein contained.
The men you had imagined fit to man
age a blacksmith shop or plat a gar
den or run duck farm or watch an
are men of brains as we'll as any of
you white men may have or even more.
AS American citizens we have from
time to time accumulated and stored
away in our political shells enough of
the American politics, and are now
gradually ascending to reach the high
est stage of craftsmanship, and under
all circumstances capable of making
laws. You had talented law makers in
the last Legislature both in the lower
and upper houses; you had law adj
visers outside of the legislative halls
why is it that their consolidated law
making brains could not make a Coun-
ty Law which would stand against the
test and attack of our local Supreme
Cooke, Mark Robinson, Byron o. Clark.
Henry E. Cooper, Fred Macfarlane,
Allen Herbert, S. E. Damon, George
Robertson, George w. Smith, G. c.
Waller and James Castle? You may
say that they are the ablest men in
this community, but to US they are
just as able as any other men. Were
they not or some of them or the ma
jority of them in the administration OF
the affairs of this country in the days
gone by, both in our executive and leg
islative colleges, and why did they not
make laws relieving US of our present
financial depression and shortage of Ia
borers? All these wrongs were due 10
your mismanagement of our country
affairs-wise men! and not to US poor
Hawaiians. Did you not know that an
neXation means the abolition of Aslatfc
laborers, yet you insisted upon annex
ing these islands to the Union? we are
too good Republicans to allow any SUR
cast upon the character of any one man
and more especially to you our white
brethren. BY this publication we de-
sire to set an example upon your mind
that some day you may become good,
true and worthy American citizen.
We Hawaiians believed in the purity
of the principles upon which the Re
publican party is founded. one OF those
great fundamental principles is: "Au
men are equal before the eyes of law
and Cod" but the agitation and the
continued attack of our characters by
your - paper makes US think that
you are Democrat concealed in the Re-
publican cloak because it teaches that
the difference between the Ethiopian
and the Caucasian races is in color,
and therefore not equal, while on the
other hand Republicanism teaches that
'an men are equal, whether white,
! black, yellow or red" Fool.
/ Respectfully yours,
/ A. S. PUAKAUAHI.
| Hawaiian.