Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1882-09-02

Ord plain Western ula who's, Iifa uas lsen spent
almost wholly Uu the frontiers ut the Republic
th,rO uiuglirg with the muscular and adventurous
elements vi our civilization uth,r than With it,
chominlry and lts refinement. I believe Ia tho
employment nt direct means iu che accomplish
mrnt of honest purpose. believe iu inward ros0-
with m'. perhaps. 4pmothiug ut The breath of the
dfstr. iu iha folds of iuy girmcnt
Sis tlulslud yclr5 lgu#d' not D." llsIHtd my
friend lnghterl 800 th1uuna yelr7 ago accord.
ing 90 sacred reckoning the human family began SOL,
journey westward that being the course of cin.
rlrg, Hs given 10y Blshop Berkeley. On the orcst
nj tha sura". wave hly, boon travelling westward.
boz rssrous' tu tllt law ~ human movement. ever
sluc' WAS 70 boy. beyond She Ohio beyond the
Ni7gIssipri beyond thr Rocky Mountains bc-
yond INC deserts hui rlltns 'f sngu thence Co the
Storm NovtdI range, whose suov.c capped peaks
fret tho clouds. and whose feAthcry pines sing the
uuthcm ut eternal storms beyond the old En-
blrcldcrU, whore the weary emigraut with the
dust OF tho Platte upon his Int and the alkali Of
the Humboldt ~ his throat, turned out his cat
Tie Tor the last time in the land Of blue and gold
and not far from which was found that little mug.
get Of gold which set the world nhln2e aud gave q
new value 60 everything bought or sold in the
civilized world. And farther than that, Mt last,
Iourneyod westward beyond tho Golden Gate,
against whose rugged ribs the waves of ocean beat
IN everlasting surge even two thousand miles
beyond 10 these fair isles, where the Oldest civil
cations of earth have met the newest after six
thousand years of separation where the children
of Cathny and the Orient, drifting eastward, have
met the young and vigorous manhood of the great
American Republic. To me ii seems to he almost
sacred ground The situation is full of CONNER.
cial and political As well poetic interest, and
hope to be able to meet the oIgences of the situa-
ton.
Discretion suggests prudence of utteranco in
speaking for others, and especially in one occupy.
ing the position in which now find myself But
this may say, that whatever can do to advance
American interests In these Islands may be de
pended upon, with due regard to the equities of
national intercourse and to the rights and prerog
atives of the Government and people whose hospi-
tally sharing
thank YOU, gentlemen, for this opportunity
YOU have gwen ME of extending to many of my
fellow countrymen the hand Of greeting, and in
joining them in invoking for my friend, the
departing Minister, that peace and happiness no
matter where his path may lead, which always
accompany honorable purpose md duty well and
conscienticusly performed" APPLAUSE
The Chairman then observed that it was
fitting to recognize our genial Consul at
this point, whose office was always q
pleasant place to visit and to do business
in, and offered" Our Consul and Vice
Consul"
After it was drunk loud calls were made
for Mr.. Mckinley. Mr.. Mckinley said IN
reply
Mr. CHAIRMAN AND AsERICASs: In behalf of
the government of the United States thank you
for the cheers, the applause and the unaminity of
expression With which received the toast to the
Office which have the honor to represent. |
assure you gentlemen that feel u deep interest in
the commercial and individual prosperity of Amer.
leans IN Hawaii, and that the doors of the Con-
sulate VIII ever be found open to my countrymen.n
MIR. Mckiney's remarks were followed by further
cheering and prolonged applause.
Mr.. Hastings being loudly called made
neat little speech about in these words (:
Mn. Grammar AND GESrLEMEN The Consul
has said word for word Just what intended and
with him ! thank you sincerely for this hearty
evidence OF your approval. If we have served You
and your interests i'll satisfactory in the past be
assured we shall try TO do so in the future. Gap
pausel
The next toast was drank with the most
enthusiastic cheering. while the Band
played America. "Om Country"
To this DIR. G. NJ Hyde with his usual
polished diction replied as follows:
"MR. CHAIRMAN, FRIENDS AND Fellow Country
MEN, rejoice with you mt the opportunity we
have to meet once more the honored guest who. as
representative of Oar Country has so worthilv
maintained its honor and prestige in these Ha-
walian Islands. Our JOY Is indeed, tempered with
sorrow at the thought that we must needs part
with a gentleman who, i'll connection with his es-
Unable lady, has ever exerted so pure and whole
some an influence in the social intercourse of our
cosmopolitan community. We hope and believe,
from what we have heard of our new Minister
Resident, and from him, that he, too, will wisely
and promptly take occasion to assert and main
tain for American ideas and American interests
the controlling influence in the affairs of this King
dom, which has undenably been the prominent
influence in the past history of these Islands, and
! must, inevitably, be more and more the predomi-
mating influence in their future destiny.
But, friends and fellow countrymen, this intiu
ence OF american life is not any individual infu-
ence. Deeper than the profound respect and
gratitude We feel for the personal influence Gen.
Comfy has ever exercised, the dominant chord in
the festivities of the hour is the sentiment ex-
pressed III the words to which you have called on
me to respond, Our Country
When we speak of our country, we may we'll
glory Ill the vast domain, the mineral wealth the
hmitess resources, the majestic rivers, the fertile
valleys the snow.capped peaks to which our Min
lister has alluded in such fond and glowing words:
but We think OF 1t rather, tonight as that which
its citizens have made and are making it. the home
of civil aud religious liberty. 1t is one country to
us here, as my friend, Mr.. Jones, has fttngy said,
whether we come from the East, North, South or
West. If we think, tonight, of home in the
East, there freedom dawned in the day-spring of
our national life; if in the North there siues the
poie-star OF freedom, each wave of time each
storm OF life pointing the hopes of the nation and
of humanity to that guiding sign, that focus point
of our national life; if in the South we hear no
warmer praises of freedoms joys and its perennial
brightness than from the Sunny South: if We think
tonight of n home i'll the west, the home of the
setting SUM-, there see in brightest coors free
dom's future with no night of sorrow, no darkness
OF despair. (Applause.)
General Comfy has told rue Of Il visit he once
had from one of the sovereign people from the
home land. Asking his visitor, From what state
did you come, sir 7? he received the somewhat as
founding reply, From Boston, reply delivered
with that supreme complacency, which only those
can ENJOY who have had the good fortune to be born
or reside IN that provincial city, others call it,
(Laughter.) happen to come from New England
and to be one of that pushing, ubiquitous race of
Yankees 30 largely represented in our Island com
munity, that our new Minister Resident has al
ready noticed the fact that Honolulu smacks of
Boston. What If we are going to have Boston
throne and Boston furniture in the New Palace /?
None of US here disposed to show any obtrusive
pride ON that account. Plymouth Rock is not our
blarney-stone tonight. That master kew that un-
locks our hearts and unseas our lips is the ioy we
feel tonight to sit here, in the land of the fern
and of the palm, beneath the pendent folds of our
country's flag.
In its blended stripes and stars is symbolized the
| fact Sir, that in that land of freedom the great
political problem of the ages has been solved-ocal
sef-government for each separate community with
loyal devotedness to the prosperity and welfare of
the united whole. There, too are being solved the
still dark problems of social regeneration. Class
interests may come into conflict old forms of social
| organization may clash with new methods of in
dustry; but under the free, unhampered workings
! of the principles Of constitutional government
| and Christian brotherly love for any in circum-
stances less favorable than our own, these yexed
| problems will soonest and surest find a peaceful
and happy solution. l believe, speaking my own
individual opinion of these questions capital will
give labor the wages 1t needs, not merely what it
must accept. Organic law will prohibit the use of
the intoxicants that now so hamper and endanger
social progress, Civil service reform will put an
end to all political rings and iobbery, and shams
/ and frauds.
Our country, through that old, aud now world