The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-26
KUHIO SCORES LINKS
LAND PROMISES
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Delegate to Congress. The Prince call
ed attention to the statement as made
in the country districts of Hawaii, and
McCandless' denial on arrival in Ho-
nolulu or in the cities and towns where
the people have common sense enough
to know that his 160-acre promises
could not be fulfilled.
The meeting was enlivened by the
music of a Hawaiian quintet club and
a Portuguese band, the latter having
marched through the streets to bring
the crowds, to glare of the big flare
lights. After Harry Won Holt, John
Wise, F. ". Quinn, Kane and Hen
riques had made addresses. Prince Ku.
hio was introduced. The Prince spoke
entirely in Hawaiian. He said that
his critics who say he does nothing
for the people or the Islands, do not
explain their position. He then spoke
of the appropriations passed by Con-
gress and the stream of money that
has been diverted to the Islands for
fortifications at Diamond Head and
Pearl HarbOT, the naval station at
Pearl Harbor, the harbor improve
ments and the lighthouses, and in the
work TO be done on these public works
the Hawalians were not barred from
helping and receiving their pay. OF
course, If he had gotten a thousand
dollars for every man in the Islands.
many would kick because he had not
got ten thousand dollars. He spoke,
also, Of his efforts resulting in the
appropriation for the Leprosarium on
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come here from all over the world to
treat leprosy. "But still they are OPP
posing me for doing nothing" he said.
He spoke of his 15-year lease bill,
which would be ample for people to
take up small farms and get something
out of them before the lease was t.
expire. Again the Prince fayed his
critics. those who still cling to the
idea that he tried to officially dispos-
sess the Hawaiians of their mother
tongue. You lost your language of.
fcially. said the Prince, ''when Link
McCandless assisted to get the coun-
try annexed to the United States. The
law now IS that all official language
in the Legislature must be English
My bill was to perpetuate, officially,
the Hawaiian language for legislative
and other proceedings for at least ten
years. I tried to maintain the Hawai-
ian language in the Legislature. but T
was told that it was against American
principles TO retain the Hawaiian Ian
guage in use for official proceedings.
- Now see that Link McCandless
comes forward in today's paper and
says he never made any offer of 100
acres Of land to the people. 7 have
inst returned from a tour of Hawaii
and Mani, and everywhere I have gone
] have been met by the question about
the 100 acres promised by McCandiess.
At Hakalau they asked me why I
could not promise 100 acres. because
McCandless did I told them, Il tell
you tonight, that this is a bait to
catch votes, that's all McCandless
tells you of his love for you, and he is
one who hauled down your flag and
took your lands away, and now he
asks You to vote for him and saws that
if he is elected he viii give you some
of Your lands back again. l would not
stand before you and make such a
promise about land. because / have
been IN Washington and know it can
not he done.
''All these remarks they are max
ING about me, just jot them down and
weigh them. They tell you / am work
ing &c take your franchise away from
YOU. That S foolish Another thing
they are saying is that | am trying
to bring in a lot of immigrants who
VIII afterwards outvote You. The
Portuguese have helped this country,
not harmed it. President Roosevelt
said he wanted to Amerieanize Hawaii
the same as any other part of the
land. We don t want to make laws
the plantations viii benefit
from Asiatic labor. My
motto is to stop this Oriental immigra-
ton. -
The Prince spoke of the alarming
school children and the prospect that
the majority of these would some day
be voters. There was more danger
right there than all the benefits or in
iuries that could come in all other i'm
migration bills. The more the Japa-
nese IN the Territory the lower the
wages would become.
Not an Alumni Fight.
John c. Lane said that the opposi-
ton were spreading the rumor that the
fight IN this campaign was between
the St. Louis Alumni, the Hawaiian
fraternal societies and the Kameha |
neha Alumni. The campaign was not
a question Of alumni, but of princi-
pies.
He said that he had never changed
his political principles, and was now
as always steadfast and true hacker
IF the Republican party, with Prince
Kuhio. The Republican party gave
the people county government and
other benefits and he had assisted in
giving these benefits as a member of
the Legislature. He asked general
support for the Republican party. He
spoke Of his former revolutionary prin
.iples lust after the overthrow of the
and said he sided then with
the element which his conscience bade
him 10.
.aNo one can say that John C.
Lane. E" said the speaker. "Lane, a
bapa-haole. did not have the courage