The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-22
Mr.. L|DDY's TRIBUTE
To JUDGE MAGUIRE

Editor Advertiser.-I would feel deep
Iy gratifed if you would allow me
space in your valuable, influential and
widely circulated daily morning paper
(that has always to my knowledge
championed every cause that tended TO-
ward increasing the maritime CONNER
eial pursuits of the United States of
Ameriea) to give ventilation TO the
fact that the man who has done and
will in the future do more to place the
L. S. merchant marine on a footing
second to none, has received the nomi-
nation as Congressional Representative
from the Fourth Congressional District
of California on .he Democratic ticket.
/ refer to the Hon. James g. Mcguire,
a man whose very name is a by-word
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a man
who is endowed with an extraordinary
amount of perseverance, courage OF
convictions, extensive knowledge of
maritime and internal commerce. unim-
peachable probity on all questions re-
Iating to the commercial welfare Of the
country at large, and a man whose
name will be handed down to posterity
as the ''SamueI Plimsoll' of America,
and the father of the famous Mcguire
act of 1895, that emancipated the sea
men from the yoke of slavery that they
were CALLING under, and made it posi-
BILE for American seamen to hold up
their heads in a manly, aightforward
and courageous manner, and with flash
ing eye declare themselves free from
the pusillanimous and inhuman laws
that were originally instituted in the
feudal days for the suppression, subjec-
tion, incarceration and without the
least particle of exaggeration) degrad-
alton of the men that sailed over the
seas in ships.
So much for the Hon. JAS G. Ma |
guire s indomitable energy in causing |
the emancipation of the man before the
mast.
If returned to Congress, which is al |
most foregone conclusion that he will |
be returned, he will Immediately take /
up the cudgels and wade chin deep into
he matter of rescuing the commerce of
he United States from the Oblivion
md partial humiliation that has threat
med and is at present threatening it
inless a man of the Saint George and
he dragon-like tendencies of the Hon.
las. G. Mcguire buckles on his armor
md valiantly fights this most import
mt and pressing matter to a finish on
he floor of the House of Congress, and,
yentle reader, you can bet your lost
)ean that Mcguire is the man that can
nd will bring this question of the ut
most national Importance to a success
ul and most desirable termination, that
will satisfy beyond all expectations the
wishes of the people, regardless of their
'olitical creeds, and you can take 1t
rom me and rest assured that with the
dvent of the Hon. Jas. c. Mcguire into
congress the commercial prosperity of
he Territory of Hawaii will receive an
Impetus little dreamed of just at pres
mt, and it will not be any longer neces-
airy for the Congressional Delegate :
rom Hawaii to go to Washington, d, c.,
nd make a megacephalOus ass of him S
elf by asking Congress to pass legisla- !
ion permitting foreign vessels to en- :
age in the transportation of passen- {
ers from Hawaii to the mainland. :
harity begins at home, and with the
of the present shipping
Avs we will be able to attend nicely Is
D that business ourselves. :
Respectfully submitted, :
JOSEPH T. LIDDT.