Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1881-07-09

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government she has come at length TO occupy the
place of teacher, and these several answers she
gives to the leading problems which she has Crap
pied and mastered before the eager gaze of all the
world-thAt wars of conquest are unnecessary
that the attempt to settle international disputes or
to collect national claims by fighting is as foolish
and disreputabe as the settlement of private diff
ferences by duellng; that debt il no more bene-
fetal nor necessary for nation than for an in
diyidual that government ia for the people and
If 1t is TO be good for anything by the people. and
that the right and duty of revolution when all
other means in obtaining and maintaining popular
rights, belongs to all communities. These are the
conclusions the republic has made and acted upon,
and the nations are watching not merely specta-
tors but AS learners.
Prophecies have been uttered and fears enter
tanned that as the nation grows i'll numbers il will
become at length too large and unweidy for its
own political system and will finally dissolve and
fall to pieces by its own weight. II will take a
wiser head than mine to forecast the probabilities
of the American experiment in government, but it
seems to that the fathers of the republic buided
better than they knew, and that this wonderful
organization which they set in motion with its nd
mirable arrangement of checks upon the acauisi-
ton of undue power by President, Congress or
State Governments is even better fitted for the
administration of the affairs of nation of fifty
or a hundred millions than of one of three millions
only. do not wish to see or TO have you these
things in the glory and glare of false light. The
American system of government is not perfect in
theory and still less in practice. There is fraud
in elections: there is bribery and wicked lobbying
IL Congress; there is occasional cheating in the
departments there Is corruption in state and CITY
governments; there is the tyranny of monopolies
and the sectional rivalries of the North and the
South and the East and the West There are de-
fects and dangers STILL for the most perfect system
must be administered by humanity as we find it.
and we often find it made of very poor material.
But recognizing all of the blunders and the wrong
management, | still say there is ground enough
from the story of the hundred years of the repub-
lie for the faith that she will continue indefinitely
to develop in Justice and strength. Americans are
as proud of their country now as ever, and the
growth of unseliish patriotism is as real as in
those nations that count their time by the thou
sand years. This day the world over, where ever
Americans are found, Is being celebrated without
doubt, with joyous enthusiasm significant of an
atfectiOnate loyalty that refuses to contemplate
disunion dsintegration.
1t seems peculiarly appropriate that the anniver-
sary day of the great republic should be recog-
nized Ill these Islands as it is to-day and it has
been commemorated here for more than quarter
of century. 1t is fitting that this little kingdom
should rejoice Ill the prosperity of its great neigh
Dor who first to recognize it as one of the
nations of the earth, who has never by act or
word threatened its independence, whose citizens
were first to come with the free gifts of light and
civilization i'll their hands to the assistance of the
newly awakened people, and who now is bound to
them by an alliance which is favorable to Hawaii
an prosperity and independence and to the mutual
friendship of both countries.
And now ladies and gentlemen citizens of
America lovers of her institutions and students of
history, celebrate the birth day of the repub-
lie let us remember and hold fast to the key note
of her success, to the sentiment which she has
moulded into constitutions and laws which is now
fast becoming the creed of the nations, and which,
while she was struggling to build government
upon it, the poughman singer under alien skies
but with Il kindred heart, sang he ploughed, to
the woods and hills aye and to the whole world:
" A mans a man for all that"
Mr.. w. W. Hall then led the song orally Round
the Flag" which was received with loud applause
Mr. p. G. Jones then rose and said:
No. President, Ladies' and Gentlemen: feel very
much like tire-cracker going off after hundred
ton gun. The first intimation had that was to
make some appropriate remarks" on this occa
sion was when read it in the programme which
was sent me with an invitation to this entertain
ment.
am quite sure you were all as much surprised
ms was, for most of you know l am no public
speaker.
have in former years appeared in public as
gorilla" in a dumb show, of the Babes
IN the Wood in pantomime. and again COM
mander of the first Antiques and Horribles," but
never expected to rise to the dignity of Fourth
OF July speaker and had been consulted, should
am at a loss to know what am to make. zap
propriate remarks" npon-wlether on the piece
Just sung, Rally Round the Flag" as a
Discrimination in the note accompanying my invi-
tation it was said as Bostonian would be gladly
heard, by remarks appropriate to the day we cele-
brate.
As Bostonan am proud to say came from
Boston. don't mean by this to say that Boston
is good place to leave but that l hail from the
Captain Ben Snow, who will be remembered by all
old residents of the tifties and earlier a most
devoted, patriotic American, :" thank God every
4th of July that am an American, every month
that belong to MASSACHUSETTS,, and every day that
was born in Boston," do feel proud that am
an American, and that can boast of having been
reared under the shade of Bunker Hill that my
children can boast of being the reat-great-grand
children of the FIRST man who fell on the battle
field of Bunker Hill calamity defending the
doubt against the enemy, Captain Isaac Baldwin,
who died with his face to the foe, and who felt in
his heart, though he may not have expressed it in
words, " Duice ct deeornM est pro pdf,id mOri."
! believe in being patriotic, and ventilatng our
patriotism on this day above all others. For To-
day We celebrate the anniversary of the Declare
ton of Independence, signed in Philadelphia ON
! the 4th Of July, l776. On that day was laid the
foundation of a mighty Republic-the grandest
! the world ever saw-that has stood now for more
than one hundred years, and which believe will
stand, increasing in power and prosperity, until
the end of time; America to-day is more prosper
GUS than ever before in her history. She is at
peace with all the world, and commands the re-
spect of all. America is the best friend Hawaii
ever had She it was who first sent the gospel TO
this people, and though the missionary fathers
have mostly passed away, yet their names ARE not
only dear to all Americans, but to all Hawaiians
as well. She was the first to recognize the indie
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