Ahailono o ka Lahui, Volume I, Number 23, 5 February 1890 — HALF AND HALF! [ARTICLE]

HALF AND HALF!

AliAi>TE!> FKOM TUI. TlMf.s. Chah. Aelii is a lial! Ciiinamau and he frankly admlts tiiat lie is not lialf as good as a Ohinaman. Bat lie iy a still worso Hawaiian. He realizey tliat men built on the half and hali' prin* eiple are soiretimes not half of anything but wholly noth:ng. He aceepts the Chineso plank and he woukl cheerfully accept a redhot stove. Ho will not truckle to the National Itu■ form party. He prefers to truckle where there is more money, Do the men who rallied to the governmen( Bupport, June 30th, recognize a l'ellow rallyer in Aeh'i? Ye,s, he was on the other sido, but because Hlephen A. Douglas did not change from hh Union sentimentB, Aehi collected his Bcattered lialves and arrayed them "against a solid p!ialanx of native voters." This required but fat contracts hauling government {l sand" enabled liim to do it. He has "opposed the onset of race prejudice," because it miglit split and strike some hall of him. He is making a plucky canvass and is spending his monoy in ti ue Tr reform' 7 fashion, and is likely to seciire half as many votes ''s his op • ponent, because the Chinese īialf is neither entitled to vote or be voted for. Will foreigners allow his defeat just because he laek votes?