Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-07-25
PROHIBITION
NOT FOR Them
Leading hawaiians Tell
Immense Throns
Some Truths

This Woolley.Thurston prohibition
scheme is mystery."-J. NJ. Poepoe.
THE Hawaiian are poor today be.
cause the Territorial government
spent the peoples money for the Rus.
slams to come here and do nothing"
C. K Keawehaku.
III Thurston and his crowd love
Hawaians, why did they overthrow
Queen Liliuokalani from the thtonc?"
n. K KanihO.
Voting power Is our last hope. DO
not give It to Thurston and woolley,
who are trying to mslead the Ha.
waiians."-J. II. Wise.
At the meeting of the anti.prohibi
tiCnists at Aala Park last Saturday
night, the leading speakers made the
above statements to one ~ the larg.
est gatherings that ever assembled
there. They were most enthusiasts.
ca'Iy applauded as they told their
stories. They declared their inten.
ton of voting against the prohibition
tomorrow. They said that they did
not want to be misled by Woolley
and Thurston, whom they think are
trying to disfranchise the Hawaiians
of their liberty as electorate. They
said they were going to mark "Aole"
which indicates that they want to run
their local government and not to al.
low them to be misled by Woolley
and Thurston.
Poepoe stated that there was a
mystery in the whole thing, which he
himself could not fathom, but which he
thought would sure come to grief. be.
cause Thurston was at the bottom of
prohibition. He said that the Hawai-,
ians were not dying because of liquor.
He read the report of the Board of
Health covering the causes of death.
Keawehaku, one of the ablest Ha'
waiian speakers stated most emphati'
cally that the Hawalians were poor
because all the public money has
been spent foolishly towards bring
ing the Russians, the Filipinos and
other good-for nothing immigrants
here, who turned out to be useless
laborers. He remarked that the Ha
waiians could have been given EN-.
ploymont with that amount of money
had the government officials been
more careful In spending II.
"The government was quick enough
TO spend the money for those Rus.
SLAMS and Filipinos; but forgot to re-
member that they-Thurston and 9th
ers. had aloha" for the Hawaiians
before whom they come now and ask
them to vote for prohibition.
This is a trick" he continued
They have lived together with Ha'
waiians and yet they have done moth,
ing to eliminate their hardships. The
Hawaiians In plantations are not pro.
vlded with good and livable quarters
and yet these plantations made every
thing comfortable Tor the Russians,
who. upon their arrival here, refused
TO work il plantations.
"This indicates positively that
Thurston and his crowd have no
aloha" for the Hawaiians- Pololei,
shouted the crowd. The speaker was
repeatedly applauded.
Kaniho. the Cannon ball OF Ko'
, hala" delivered one OF the best
speeches of the night. His sound 10
sic against prohibition won for him
the kokuas of the audience. He told
his Interested hearers to vote "Aole,
and they assured him right there and
then. that they would vote according
ly tomorrow.
He pointed out to the crowd that
II was not prohibition that Thurston
and Woolley were working for; but
rather TO dlsfranchise the Hawaiians,
His remarks were kokuaed by the
audience.
Wise, claimed that Thurston and
Woof!ey had no love for the Hawai-
ians. because 1t was Thurston that
dethroned the Hawaiian Queen. This
action of Thurston who Is leading the
prohibition scheme will not be for
gotten by the voters at the ballot box
| tomorrow"
lie urged upon the crowd to vote
"Aole" in order to perpetuate theiI
| rights upon the land and to vote down
Woolley and Thurston and Others
who are trying to bellttle the Ha
waiians.
The speakers were most enthusias
tlcaly applauded when they conclud
! ed.
Tonight another mass meeting will
be held at Aala Park and able speak
ers will tell Hawaiian voters fe"
truths regarding the evils of prohi
| bition, t.f" afF
| ,-e,, ,e, ,ruen ar oNCE.