The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-10-18

Of the issues, that they would lea
McCandless and vote for Kuhio.
We continued in the steamer to Ho
okena, where we held fne meeting
Sunday night There was a great crowd
Of people there, and they would not LEI
MS go, so the meeting, lasted from seven
until eleven o'clock. There were no
questions asked, but as we left the PEG.
pie said, we understand things now.
From HookeHa we went overland ia
Napoopoo, where we held a meeting at
six o clock in the morning. There was
as big crowd there as there had been
at HooRena, and we held one Of the
best meetings of the trip. The senti.
ment Of the people seemed to be all for
the Prince. Ther said that they had
heard what Link had said, but that THEY
did not believe him.
Links immigration Scare.
s'we held meeting at Kailua at
about noon on Monday, At first the
people did not seem particularly well
disposed towards us; being apparently
halt and half between Kuhio and Link
but as the meeting went on they warm
ed towards the Prince, and when IL was
over, they all came and wanted to shake
hands with him, saying that they were
going to vote'for him. The people said
in the beginning that they thought the
immigration bill was a very bad one,
Link had told them that IL a Republican
Delegate were elected. it would result
in the bringing of large hordes of Rus,
slams, Porto Ricans and Filipinos into
the Territory. The Islands would he
flooded with bad people, and the Ha-
waiians would an be out of their jobs.
1t was explained to them that under the
law Filipino and Porto Rican immigra.
ton could not be stopped, and that the
passage of an immigration bill was nee
essary in order to make possible the
importation of a good class of people,
such as the Portuguese and the, Russians,
rather than Filipinos and Porto Ricans.
The Republican party wanted the i'm,
portation of high class laborers, who
would want a decent standard of wages.
1t was against cheap labor. If the i'm.
migration of good labor were not made
possible, the plantations would import
the inferior classes.
"The audience was satisfied with this
explanation.
SIN the mean time we had received a
telephone message from Keokea, where
Jared Smiths plantation is, stating
that the voters there wanted to hear
us; so we had to retrace our steps and
go back there. There were about sixty
voters waiting to hear us, and we held
a good meeting.
'tBy this time we had received a
telephone message, this time from Pa.
hoehoe, which is about thirty miles to-
wards Kau from Kailua, and again we
had to go back on our trail, as the
people at that place had gotten together
and were waiting for us to come to
them. We held a meeting at Pahoehoe
that evening, there being about thirty
voters present.
Keildalii Right.
"We got back to Kailua Monday
night, and the following morning we
held meeting at Kalaoa North Ko-
na). Here a number of questions were
asked about the land laws The people
wanted to know who had had inserted
in the law the amendment relative to
the opening of public lands Nupon the
petition of twenty-five citizens. They
said that McCandless had told them
that he was responsible for this provi-
sion, but Kuhio told them that this
was false, and he proved it to them by
reading extracts from the report of the
proceedings before the congressional
The people were thorough
ly convinced and answered that the
'keikalii' was right.
son Tuesday noon,. as we were pass
Der Of people had gathered on the road
to hear us, so, although we had not
planned to hold meeting there, we
stopped and made a. few speeches. AS
a matter of fact we held a very salts
factory meeting there.
"We arrived at Waimea Tuesday
evening, and found that quite a large
crowd had gathered at the courthouse.
[ left for Hilo after having made
speech, being the first speaker The
'est of the party continued on its tour
through the Kohalas.
Hang on TO Franchise.
All the main speeches were made
by the Delegate. Hewitt and 1 both
poke for the Delegate. Hewitt dwelt
on the land law question. He
aid that he had lived in Kau for many
,ears, and had been fighting land laws
or the past five years, and that he could
therefore speak with authority when he
his satisfaction with the work
lone by the Delegate.
- My main point was the pointing out
# the provision of the Organic Act
which makes knowledge of the English
or Hawaiian language qualification
or the holding of the franchise. con-
ended that as long as the Hawaiians
ent Hawaiian to congress, the fran
hise of those who could speak only Ha-
vaiian was safe. Link might be all |
light, and then again he might not.
The Hawaiians knew they could trust |
1uhio to see to it that that provision |
vas never knocked out as long as he
represented them in congress. They
ould not know what McCandless might
%. I told them that they had the
raDchise, and that it was their duty to
ang on to it and to take no possible |
nance of losing it,"