Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 284, 21 September 1891 — Meeting of the Mechanies. [ARTICLE]

Meeting of the Mechanies.

The meeting of the Mechanicß' Union cohvened through the papers for last Thursday, at 7 P. M., took plaee at the Internatioal Hall, when, at half past seven, President Phillips called the meeting to order. The hall presented a singular and "motley" appearance: in the very slim attendance, the old generals of the institution, Phillipa, ]>lackenzie, R. More, J. Bowler, T. Lucas, o'Sullivan, J. Quiiin, were promi-1 nently noticeable, as also a few of their subaltern officers; but the re-1 maining portion of those present i were evidently outsi(lers, many of j them new comers in the town, attracted purely by idle curiosity ; many eame to the dcoi\ gave a look in ane away: the sprinkling of nativ was remarlfably small, as Hawaiians like all excitenient of a political nature but their syrapathies were evidently elsewhere. Among the spectators attracted by curiosity were several members of the last liegislature, J. Pua, J. Kanealii, R. W. Wilfox, A. Marques, E. Macfarlane. it was self-evident that the rank and fileof the association, —the true Mechanics anel Workingmen,—had failed to respond to the eall, as they were eonspicuous by their absence, and the few present did not take the least interest in the proceedings, to such an extent even; that when a vote was taken, only a dozen of hands r3sponded, all the rest not voting at all. When asked for the object of the nieeting, the President had nothing to say, except that the eall had been made at the request of some members not named. who did not seem to havc themselves any special order of the dav in view. After a "good natured v but desultory discussion, |embracing a proposition for new elections of ofScers for the oiaiion, in whieh E. C. Macfar laao T. Lucas made themselvcs protninent as would be leadcrs, and dictators of what ought or ougīit not to be donc, and in whieh th pnny editor of the BuUctin nmde himse!f very officious, the ineetii j; adjoiirnotl without taking any ! tion, suV)je :t to a further t>;li < f ti. > Cf»air, a d''cimon whieh was rv■ dently an immense relkf to i • ■ Tn toto. the w is i decided iizzle. s'iowing plninh I the Mechanics do not, ir.'ry i o • I anv attention to vague c«]ls f ! ihe presentdfficers <»f the , tion, and more p«»rticul{irh t they cheerfully hefd the warn;; • K.\ Leo, —to beware of fal«> fn. and designing lead«rs, T,»v chanics and workingmeti have n yet made up their tnirds to be c?m • tured and led by 4 *the lalee ntreacheroUB, n by woulu l leaders *• who9e-hands ajj» innooem |

of toil," by those u faihirest and traitors of the last Legislature, those friends of the deceitful Bulle- \ iin, who * volunteered so freely to ventilate their ideas in the meeting had full sway io -better Bhow their hands. It w therefore now, plain, that i unleea the %>ffieers of the Union are given a renewed authority Uy pojiu lar suffarage, and if some of the present ohes are not replaced by others considered as more reliabie by the masses, the s3umbering association wili not stand auy kind of reorganißation; it will be foundderd beyond redemption, and " dis rupted its original elementB,' t killed by mismanagement, breeding indifference, scorn and repulsion. We hope thal this sad fate will be averted. and a renovation will sti 11 be possible, but, as Ka Leo said, better let the society'disappear than to allow it to fall mto the hands of the u slave-drivers party" and used for the selfish purposes of unwf>rthy men, designing and tncky uolilicians, who have cut themselves out of the Nationai ranks. By mani(festing their disdainful indifferrnce, the m*»chanics and workingnieii pr«!Ve that they keep aiive to the advice of rvA Lko, wnieh they know is tije only iu town owned by practical iuecnaM'cs, the only one svho bus trn]y at hea.rfc the iuterests of the vvor:U(jg cl.iss-s. And the I Leo iB.iys >r:> 1o llie present I linie, the true le,-iiiers of ,f Uunal and pupuL.r i>arty Uir-» ■ ntei'fered Iji &#y -\vay wilh thepop ular ciass<\s, nor atte?npted to exert ■my īpUueneo ovi-r them; but when tlie iiour come3, .ii required, they will be found at the post of duty, re.Hdy to tear oif the m.»sks of tiie false frie ids of the manses..