The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1881-07-09
III FOURTH OF JULY.

Our American fetiow-CItlZens celebrated thel
great national holiday on Monday last in a man
ner which demonstrated how influential and m
merous a section of our foreign population the,
are. Men of other nationalities Joined in giyin!
eclat To the occasion in 4 way which showed hoE
well fused the various elements of our white po
pulation are, and how thoroughly both the fact
and the theories symbolized by the American
has are respected throughout the world.
According to an old American custom, a bur
lesque procession OF . Ancient and Honorable
citizens" metamorphosed into Antiques and
Horribles - turned out at an early hour and
made a progress through the principal streets OF
the city, lasting from before seven to nearly nine
o'clock in the morning. This procession was
very creditable 10 those who participated in IL
considering how hurriedly it was got up.
At 10 A. NJ. the Exerciees with which
Americans are familiar as part Of the inevitable
programme on the 4th of July were INDUCED in
in the grounds of the Hawaiian Hotel. The
North-easter with its frequent showers subsidized
somewhat. in Difference TO the occasion, soon
after the opening of the proceedings. In spite
of the weather quite a crowd of both sexes had
assembled, and the programme of the occasion
was followed with enthusiastic attention, and all
its best points were applauded voeiforonsly.
Gen1 Comfy called Dr.. McGrew to the chair,
adding that in consequence of the painful event
which had just occurred (the death of the Chief
J~ustice) he felt that whilst the public exercises
which had been arranged might properly pro-
ceed, he did not think that the Reception he had
announced would now be in place.
DR.. McGrew, on taking the chair, referred in
Il few appropriate remarks, whilst acknowledge
ing the compliment paid TO him by the young
men VIII had got up the demonstration, to
the fact that it was on their young men that the
hopes of Americans as to the future of their
country were nat urally conferred.
The Royal Hawaiian Band was in attendance
and occupied the succeeding interval with some
well chosen music. MIR. Miller, dressed in the
costume of a century ago, read the Declaration of
Independence. Mr.. Harnden then sang the
g Star @pangled Banner " in a way which Sc
cured we'll merited applause.
The Grafton of the Day was delivered by Mr..
Sanford B. Dole. We regret that pressure on
our space prevents our giving more than an out
line of his speech. He said that the discipline
of the late Civil War had been favorable to the
development of national character. The dogma
of equal rights set forth ON the document Just
read was a lesson Americans had still to learn.
AhS fOSSNAOh ANthNA IN ME II
supreme over those of the States or not was also
still unsettled, but the dispute in regard to it
would be settled eventually in the legislature,
and not in the field. But if internal policy were
not yet settled, the United States had set an exam
pie to the world in her external policy. Her acqui-
sitions of territory, even when some of them
might have been claimed as results of conquest,
were made by purchase, and some of the gravest
disputes that ever exercised the diplomacy of
great Powers had been settled by Arbitration.
So it was found that at the end of a century of
growth, instead of being still a learner, she was a
teacher of nations in the science of government.
Prophecies had been INDUCED in that as the
nation grew, it would become too unwieldy to
hold together, but he thought past history war;
ranted the conclusion that America would CON
tinue indefinitely to increase in justice and in
strength 1t was fit thst this kingdom should,
as was its wont, rejoice in the prosperity of its
great neighbor, bound to them by alliances
which guaranteed Hawaiian Independence. Let
them remember and hold fast the key hote of
Americas success-the words of the plough
man singer = mans II man for a that"
Rally round the flag was then sung by
Mr.. w. w. Hall: and Mr.. P. c.. Jones followed
with what the programme very suitably called
% appropriate remarks. With old Captain Ben
Snow he could say q thank God every 4th of
July that 1 am an American, every month that 1
belong to Massachusetts, and every day that I
was born in Boston He believed in being patri-
otto and in venting their patriotism on this day
above all others. America was the first to en-
courage Hawaiian Independence. She had
given them a treaty which poured wealth into the
land. 1t was her policy to keep these Islands
independent so long as they were capable of
self-government. Mr.. Jones was repeatedly in
terrupted by loud applause.
Other songs and music by the Band completed
the programme, and the assembled company de-
parted about II O'Clock.
Among the decorations by private citizens
hailing from the Great Republic, nothing out of
the ordinary run was to be noted, but the Ar
engagements Committee erected a trophy at the
of Fort and Hotel Streets, which de-
serves n description. This was a tower forty
high, surmounted by a fiag-pole carrying a
huge banner. On this, in the midst of the
Stars and Stripes was a portrait of Gen1
Washington in an oval, with an eagle lowering
over it. The tower was in three stories, q base
nent of 5ft square and Oft high, and two stories
each of lift and of diminishing diameter. AIlegor-
pictures, representing Liberty, Justice, Com
merce and Defence, were fixed about aft from
the ground, one on each side of the tower.
Stays of rope covered with greenery connected
the tower with the four corners of the streets,
and on these were hung alternately oval shields,
each bearing the name of a President of the
United States, go in ALL and the flags of other
The top of the tower was ornamented
by a scolloped drapery with on each side shields
bearing the colors of the States.
Soon after daybreak in the morning all the
1elIs in the town were set ringing; and salutes
we're fired from the battery at Kakaako, at day
lreak k, at noon and at sunset.
May the 4th of July never be less enthusiast
ically ommemorated on these Isles of the
Pacific.
SUPREME COURT.
The July Session of the Supreme Court was
opened on Monday 4th inst, at 10 a. M, the
Ist and I'd Associate Justices being present on