The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-12-07

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ARBITRATION 4 GOOD METHOD or SETTLING NATIONAL
DIFFICULTIES.
There - nO good reason why nations, az well Is
individuals or private citizens, should not settle
their difficulties without resOrtiug 70 war and
blo0d-shed. IL il the expressed opinion Of writers
in Europe aud America. that the amicable settle
nent Of the Aia6a5ag affair will have a powerful
influence - bring about This most desirable result.
Ii l. q precedent which will not be forgotten, or
its influence lost upon the world. 1t appeals u
the common sense Of mankind. An idea ike
that inculcatcd and established by the Geneva
Tribunal will do mach 10 batter down and render
useless forts, and ar>enals, and ships Of war
Three centuries ago, from Geneva went forth
ideas which have agltated and revOlutiOniZed the
Christian world. Nav the idea that nations can
settle their difficulties by peaceful arbitration, %
forth on = mission equally widespread and salu-
tary. e. The pen Is mightier than the sword"
What now Is wanted is 10 create a public SEN
timent, before which nations must bow. Let
this public sentiment find expression in interna-
tiOnal law, and the time may come, and We hope
1t is not far distant, when enlightened nations
viii no more presume 10 violate the laws of
nations than enlightened individuals would violate
the established law Of the land. Paul was a
good Statesman and lawyer, when he said The
law is good if n man use it lawfully, but the law
Is not made for the righteous man, but the lawless
and disobedient.'
1t nations are lawless, az private citizens are
sometimes. then by the laws OF nations or interna
tiUnal law, let them be summoned before a Tri
bunal, where arbitrators shall assess the amount
of damages, or otherwise adjust the point in dis
pute.
Ideas are more potent than cannon-balls pro-
Jected by rlfied guns. Ideas, more enlightened
than those of former ages, respecting Govern
ment, edueation, and religion, are now finding
their way among the nations of the earth.
They are difused abroad by travellers, Mission
aries, Consuls, Ambassadors, merchants, and
flashed along the telegraphic wire, to the very
centre OF India, China and Japan. America
stands forth in the front rank of nations, dis
tinguished for progress and intelligence.
INFLUENCE OF AMERICA UPON THE WORLD.
In acknowledgment of the foregoing
the youth of China and Japan, under the Gov
ernmental patronage of those nations, are now
seeking an education in the American Colleges
while other subjects of those countries, are in
vestIgating every department of manufactures,
laws, trade and of America. Those
old oriental nations are becoming RAPIDLY Amer
icanized, or Dermeated with American ideas.
Other nations of the earth are undergoing a
similar revolution. The influence OF American
institutions is becoming widely extended. Her
past history and present position clearly indicate
that our country has a noble mission to perform
among the nations of the earth. Generations of
men pass away, but not so with nations, thew
live on from age to age. Remarks Taine, the
popular French writer "a nation lives twenty.
thirty centuries and longer, but a man lives but
sixty or seventy years. Nevertheless a nation
has a good many points in which it is like a man.
For, in a career SO long and almost interminable,
a nation has its own character, both mental and
moral, which manifests itself at the beginning.
and deyelopes from epoch to epoch, preserving
the same fundamental qualities from its origin to
its decline"
AMERICA \ YOUTHFUL NATION.
As yet, America is a youthful nation, but she
has given glorious promise of what she will be in
her maturity. Not one century has elapsed since
she put forth the Declaration of Independence.
During the nations existence it has never taken
one step backward. 1t is n nation of progress.
This is apparent, not only in her population.
increasing from 5000, 900 to 40, OOO, 900, during
the century now closing, but also in all those
elements of wealth, intelligence, and whatever
else, go to form a great strong, vigorous, self
reliant and powerful nation. The recent census
discloses some startling facts. Even should
foreign immigration now cease, from the natural
increase of its present population, at the end of
this century, 1910, A. d., our population would
amount to II ,000, 900 and over but surprising
the foreign immigration of 2OO, 200 per annum to
90 on, our population will amount to So, 900, 900,
in the year of our Lord 1900.
Some now listening to my voice, will doubtless
live to witness this result. Remarks Daniel
Webster: While the Union lasts, we have
high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out
before us, for us and our children. Beyond that
/ seek not to penetrate the veil" [ feel the
fullest confidence that the Union will last for
many years and ages TO come. 1t is hardly pos
sible to conceive of that Union experiencing a
more terrible shock than befell it, during the late
civil war. 1t is u source of devout THANKSGIVING
that hitherto our country has been true to her
mission. Her progress has been onward and
upward. The people of America have afforded
and are now afiording the most convincing proofs
of their capabIlIty for Government. They
are now working out a noble experiment, and
right nobly are they doing the work. have full
confidence in the people, educated and trained
under such influences as are now operating upon
the people of the United States.
AMERICANS JEALOUS FOR THE SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY.
Some would taunt our countrymen as worship
Pers of Mammon or the : Almighty Dollar but
have they not inscribed upon their coin : 4. In
God is our trust - Are they not as ready and
willing as the people of any other land. to invest
their surplus funds, in enterprises of n benevolent,
philanthropic, educational and missionary char
acter? The friends of foreign missions in Amer
lea have invested at least l 900. 900 of dollars in
e~levating and educating Hawaiians, and they are
now doing a similar work for the inhabitants of
Asia, Africa, and other parts of the world. The
reading public has recently been electrified by the
announcement, that the correspondent of an
American newspaper, has made a bold dash into
the heart of Africa, and conveyed glad tidings to
an English explorer, supposed to have been lost
in its jungles or persisted upon its desert, but
happily he has returned to tell the world that
Livingstone still lives. Crowned heads, and
societies vie with each other 70 honor
the bold and dashing young man who succeeded
in discovering the lost explorer, but America has
many of her sons and daughters abroad on a
nobler mission than Stanley achieved. Let us
not forget that American missionaries-men and
women are now ~laboring in Western and Southern
Africa, and also in Egypt, having joined hands
with Livingstone to explore and labor in spread
ing throughout that dark continent the blessings
of civilization and Christianity. At the last
meeting of the American Board, held in New
Haven, among the items of expenditure amount
ing to nearly a half million of dollars. | notice
of 800 600 for the Zulu mission of South
\ frica- IivinUstOne aDureciataS tho Iabo-s &C