The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1912-08-27

Of tho Inter-Island trust. The Governor
has done nothing. In everything he
does he is blocking homesteadiug in.
stead of advancing It.
IF you people do not arise and pro.
test against these methods, we will get
commission government, and who will
come here to live, when they can 90
to California and there exercise the
rights of citizenship We want a mid.
die class here, men with homes of their
own, who can own their own souls and
not be bought. This condition would
not be tolerated anywhere else. We
are fighting tho interests only for our
self-preservation. Now man can not
move his finger without having it chop.
ped off, If the interests see At.
Up to the People.
cit is up to you people to put up
candidates who win work for your best
interests. As long as | did not fight
the interests, / was good man. When
| did do so it was different. The plan
ters don't see that they are making a
mistake. They don't see that the small
man must plant and the corporations
do the milling. That is what the peo-
pie of America want us to do.
"At the time of annexation the coun-
try was full of white mechanics. Two
years later they had gone, and their
places have been taken by aliens. l
don 7 say that the plantations employ
no citizen mechanics, but they don 7
employ near enough.
I'm the nominating of delegates to
the Republican convention | want you
to put up men who will back me up,
men who have backbone. / ask you
not to be slack as you were last time,
and don't be misled into believing that
there are two Kuho tickets. This is
your fight, not mine, 1t is immaterial
to me, but l as fighting for the poor
man, and not for myself. You white
men should fight this battle, you who
know what Americanism is better than
do, who am only new-made Amer
lean. ask You to support me. 1t is
not fight against the rich, but a fight
to keep the corporations in their proper
place, for the poor man to protect him
self and advance himself Some of the
laws are good, but they are not being
administered right 1t is true that
thousands of acres of land are being
thrown on the market, but what good
does it do7 What is the purpose7
don t know.
"If the Republican party will not
endorse me on the platform believe
in then | shall appeal to the people,
believing that this is the better way
instead of few men in the Republican
party running things just as they see
fit / will make my fight. If the peo.
T Es supPDit u1 sn' W., Ia. "ln ou.,
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Desle, 'Ne iie 'N'"lei'
He was followed by Desha, who
made fiery speech, in which he roast
ed the Governor to crisp Tor his at
titude in several Hilo matters. He took
up first the Walakea land matter. Frear
had come to Hllo, he SAID, with the
aVowed intention OF looking alter the
opening of the Waiakea home lots. lie
had been in Hllo several days, but he
had spent his time riding on the rali'
road, and he mad disappointed the poor
people by saying not single WORD
about the opening OF home lots Tor
them. The railroad had got the lands
1t wanted, but the poor people got
nothing, and tins was one OF the things
which the people of Hilo We're talking
about. The Governor had said: Keep
your shirt ON. You viii get your
lands. The railroad only got them
Therefore kuhio's fight was right
eous one.
Two Gases.
D. E. Metzger and C. S. CaIlsmith
had both taken up leases of land near
the breakwater. The former had i'm.
proved his lot, had built home there
and had spent much money on its i'm.
provement. CarlsmIth had done prac-
ticaiiy nothing with his land, sui ~
SI756 Gov IL Ieosa oF onIv si~ Years
thovgb tbo Goyornor had been smart
ononSh 70 Law tbo brnnt NJ signing
tbo 6aneps N Mott smith MefzgoF
IN +bo other hand had been promised
tbrea times that be would he Given his
Iand Instoad tbs Torritory soId II IA
tba roiIrood and ,vhan Metzger nro.
tostad he WINS lola that IL was foo late
tbe deed had already bcen signed
Wetzger was r,nning FOR tba sanote
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