The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-01-21

render al >or a. future day, your political birth
risht ot ind epeudence, | would have the power
WIKI whlcr. you must unite, proud To take YOU,
proud OF tie acquisition Of the Hawaiian
Archipelago.
BUT ! will not contemplate any surrender.
Neithe America, nor any other nation wants TO
interfere with your national independents. They
ali Want Hawaii to remain a neutral aud pros-
porous little state, 10 be Iue especial refuge and
recr uIttns station OF the commerce. OF the world
Ia the Pacific ocean.
Therefore. q HawauansI listen not 70 dema.
gosues who would disturb your minds and alarm
you IN respect to the alledged designs against
you, vi America VI any other tOreIgu country
Listen not To DISCUSSIONS about treaties, loans. or
otheF things which yCu cannot change, and which
do not vitality affect you. Listen not 10 the voices
u politicians who cannot keep and who perhaps
90 mol care to Keep one promise THAI they make
Il You. Listen not ~ men vito led some VI YOU
lhto trouble during the late riot, and who could
hOt OF would not help those they led away when
tue ho-r Ut danger and retrIbution came. But
listen To a voice of love prompted solely by a care
Tor your HE and Increase ~ Il people. ought
10 love you Ha"aIians. though you are 50 poor
anu degraded, with your weakness ana decay in
the eyes OF the world tor 10 IawHiuns | owe NV
i!Ie. 1es,-ttlere was Il time when driven out to
sea IN an open boat, HawaiIun- who could tave
saved themselves by swimming through breakers.
yet struggled during u dreadful night of toll and
rear with agUnIzIng thirst In order 10 save me
And again when had gone down into the depths
oil the sea IN your stormy channel of MOiokaI, a
Hawaiian sprang for me aud bore me up and
saved my life. Therefore, snail | not speak unto
you and Tor you, and cry out in all love and earn
estness OF soul, when your race is dying. and your
poor httle ship OF state lie IN the political break
Grs? | will. o iiuwaiians, and | speak with
out lear or lavOr unto King and To people alike.
Aud thus | would speak unto your King. o
Chief successor of the Great ka~meilameha, and
/ seated ON the Hawaiian Throne thpurb yOur
state be small, and the least nmoug the family of
nations, yet your opportunity tor renown as an
illustrious ruler is rs great rs II you governed mil
lions oil souls. Of you aud of your government
there will be expected by all thoughtful men Of
tile civilized world some Wise. patriotic, and faith
fully pursued policy for the cherlshing and in
crease Ui your people aud that such policy will
be held paramount 10 any other questions
whether of trade or finance. or other particular
interests of the country. And you. o people !
must strengthen the hands of your King with
cheerful service and Il Jealous loyalty. And then
you, united with true-hearted and loyal foreign
ers, can all join together as ii strong and bar
moGiously blended little community in the build
ing up at hawaii. We can with union and wise
corporation stop the prevailing wall of death
with the voices of increasing people. We can
with more women OF ciaste races To be found
and got by the seeking, have more fruitful unions
and gladden. with marriages the land so saddened
with funerals. We can make our lonely valleys
resound joyously with the clamor OF little chill
dren. We can enliven once more the now silent
shores OF Hawaii with n thr 'ngIng and busy peo-
Pile. And then when an electric cable unites III
10 our neighbOrIng continent and TO the rest OF
the world and when the fleets of the Pacific
rendezvous in our port of Honolulu. and the
tratlcting and travelling nations fill our mart,
with wealth gathered from all quarters of the
giobe,-then may little Hawaii the least, be ont
OF the most hlest of the family Of nations anc
/ being strong in her ChrlstIau- moral and enlOht
ened attitude, sit royalty AS the Queen OF thu
great ocean, and shine forth AZ a proud and re
deemed state before an admiring world
Your fellow citizen,
WALTER MURRAY GIBSON.
Honolulu, January 81, 1876.