The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-10-15

that am right and that | Am making
fight tor tie common Poop OF lila
81. nirnr n Z N v. r 80 Ibis Tor
lritory, since annexation. what has there
b. en- done toward the Americanisatiou
OF c.e is..nasl THc.e $ n appar,n
mprO nent from au Ainciican p la
of view. When Roosevelt was Presi
dent and Carter was governor herr, the
President insisted that AmeIcanizatio'
should be the foremost thing TO work
for in Hawaii. Was it donef Inste vi,
we have imported thousands Of Fill.
pinos and lowered our standards. What
we want is European immigration of the
kind that will ass milate and work to
ward the eventual Amer can cation o
Hawaii and make of tn, Sc Islands real
American community
Government by Commission.
al believe the time is coming VIII en-
we will have government by commission
If we don't look ont. and If we don I
fight the way l am fighting today. Shall
we turn the electorate of this Territory
into the hands Of aliensf / say mol 1t
we don I Americanize Hawaii properly
what will those in authority dot Our
votes will be taken away from us and
we win have government by commits
sion. The last census showed the Jap.
anese children were more than equal
to the children of all other races here.
Now, this is something serious, and we
must be prepared 60 meet the issue.
Nothing Personal.
"In my fight against the administra.
ton | have been sincere. l feel am
right, and that is why | have made the
fight. There is nothing personal in the
whole matter. / am not fighting against
the interest | am fighting for the
middleman, the poor man, and for all of
us. ! am right and everybody says the
best thing which ever happened for Ha-
wall was to have Secretary Fisher come
here and investigate conditions of our
island life. l think so, and agree with
them.
81 am running again Tor congress,
and ! ask your support, not alone for
myself but for all the candidates Of my
party, the Republican party. When
you come down to the question of the
tariff, just think what the Democratic
party stands for: free trade and the re-
duction of our sugar. Sugar is the
mainstay of this Territory. Even if
| Wilson is elected President, send Re-
publican to congress, so that erybody
will know we do not stand for free trade
nor for the reduction of the tariff On
sugar. think i am the proper man.
Following Kuhio, the county and leg
islative candidates in turn addressed
the gathering, one minute being allow
ed each speaker in order to keep tho
meeting from dragging along into the
Sabbath.
Reverend Desha, the Hilo orator, tool
occasion to sing the praises of the sew
eral candidates and in several instances
quoted od-t Hawaiian meles, whicl
were well received by the Hawaiian
present.
Boost for Parker.
W. T. Rawlins spoke in behalf of Cap
tain Robert Parker Waipa, the candi
) date for the shrievalty showing tina
his knowledge of Parker was that h
was a man of courage, a man who coul,
be depended on to do what was RICH
and man who stood for duty all tn
time. Rawlins told of an occurrence
when the Lahaina strike was on. Park
er had gone to Lahaina, because so OF
dered, without telling his supporter
that he had child at home on hi
deathbed. In this instance Parker ha
[ shown the regard he had for duty an
? the speaker felt that if elected shel
: if his candidate would always be tn
i same dependable man.
1 George Davis was the last speaker @
the evening and the old war-horse d,
/, livered one of his oldtime frework
/ speeches. Several times during his az
/ dress Davis was interrupted by Judg
t Arthur A. Wilder, but on every instaDc
/ Davis proved equal to the situation an
i turned Wilder s. questions into ridicul
n of the interrupter