The Hawaiian gazette., 1910-10-18

Darona.
rs aid that his conntrymen would
e DEF eDdcnt upon their friends ana
neighbors if it were not for the organ
ization Of which he was member and
in big language he referred to "the
starvation wages paid by the planta
tions.n
Pacheco continued TO remark that the
" assisted immigration scheme Of the
plantations would be the ruinntion Of
Hawaii,'' and he wanted to know what
was the use Of sending A. B. c, Akin
son to Siberia to bring in more ex-con-
victs and other undesirables from God
forsaken places"
He commended that if the plantations
would only pay "living wages there
might be some chance Of getting people
already here in Hawaii to work on the
sugar estates.
UWith the fall Of the house of Bra
CANA, - said Pacheco, warming up to
his subject, and his remarks being in
terpreted by a husky Hawaiian by the
name of KeawehalSu, ''there will be no
more Portuguese coming to these Ha.
waiian Islands. And we don't want
any more Of my countrymen to come
here until the plantations are prepared
to pay decent living wages to them
when they 90 to work on the sugar
estates.
tWe have had sufficient sufficiency
of assisted immigration, said Pacbeeo
Incidentally, his interpreter put his Ian.
guage into still more fowery and in.
definite language, much to the general
entertainment of the big crowd.
"Let us close our doors on the hordes
of aliens sought to be brought this
way" said Pacheco. And then he re
ferred to the charge made that Demo
Gratis were demagogues. This last word
was puzzler for the willing interpreter
| but he managed to give it some kind
of word in the Hawaiian language
which, being literally interpreted
means ga devil who frightens those
who walk in the dark"
Winding up his eloqhence, he spoke
| of how the planters were making
themselves rich from the f'swea
and curses of underpaid and half
| starved laborers. The rest of hii
speech was along the same lines, the
Fsum and substance of it all being tina
the planters were pressing down thu
people already here and that it would
be insanity to introduce new people Il
compete with the laborers already il
these Islands.
Mcoandless, Lover Of Mankind.
Link McCandless spoke first in Ha
waiian and then in English. His frs
subject in the Hawaiian talk was tina
of the alleged condition of the Ha
waiian laborers along the waterfront
He said that the planters we're bringing
in cheap Russians of doubtful characte
and stubborn disposition to cut the hon
est Hawaiian laborer out of his steve
doring work along the Honolulu water
front. That before the Russians CAM
the Hawaiians and others who wer
working on the waterfront were getting
as much as two dollars day, but tina
since the Russians had been foisted OF
the country the daily wage was nov
no more than one dollar and hal
day.
Somebody in the crowd shoute
"Don't let's have any more Rus
slams"
/ McCandless, while he was talking Ha
waiian, went on to say that the recep
prohibition movement was not the ma
ter of the most Importance in thes
Islands. He said that the Hawaiian
were not dying of booze, but were dyin
, of insufficient food, poor food and lac
of labor wherewith to make enoug
money to buy good and sufficient foot
: Later the aspirant for Washingto
0 honors spoke in. English and he d.
t clared that Kuhio, the candidate fo
S reelection as delegate to congress, ha
t given over his power as representative
t of the people to Governor Frear at tn
e time of the introduction of the bi
for the reform of the island land law
;. the amendments to the Organic Ae
h and that Kuhio, although he had signe
!. the bill approved by the local legisl;
\ ture, had left it to Governor Frear VIII
!. was then in Washington to slide int
|, the congressional attention, while Kl
r hio was in Kau.
MeCandless wound up with the asse
q ton that Frear was taking legislatiy
= powers when he was causing to be pal
4 to the encouragement and his deput
/ fifty dollars month each more tina
= the legislature had provided for ther
= He called on the multitude to determiI
a whether or not this was just.
4 Kaniho Got Small Notice.
!. Kaniho was the last speaker and gay
his usual thunder speech, though aft
e McCandless got through talking the
It were not many of the crowd left
vi listen to him.
81 Perhaps the most amusing incident
/. the evening was when Pacheco DIRE
/ the attention of the crowd to himse
e by relating part of his history and the
t said he would leave it to the Poop
d if he was not a good sample of Anne
f lean citizen, though he did not say
n in any such modest manner. rather T
a ferring to himself as a model. hmm
diately following his declaration
a what Portuguese immigrant could
. as evidenced by himself, he declaim,
o that no more Portuguese immigran
2 were wanted.