The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-05-25

snip OF which history tells has ever ven
tured on this experiment.
3. A third problem is our large hospital
ity. Americas latch-string is out to all the
world. We even 60 upon the housetops,
trumpet in hand, and blow our invitation to
yerybody-except the Chinese-to come to
Us. Our porters stand at our national gate
ways, the seaport5, and say, Welcome to
our broad fields, and our industries and our
citizenship" And they are accepting
Americas invitation, and are pouring into
or country al the rate Of one million and
half Reg year. At least half the growth Of
Amsrhs each year is by foreign immigra-
ton. There they come; men of every race,
language. custom and religion; men who
have known the Church only to be infidel to
it, aud the State only to be in revolt against
it; men to whom law means tyranny and
religion means superstition. Men who do
not know our national habits, nor appre-
bend our religion. nor even understand our
language. Before they have time to IN
learn the monarchial education Of their
past, or get the remotest conception Of the
spirit Of American institutions, we thrust tho
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power to mold America institutions, frame
her laws, mold her religious life, and re-
make or unmake her form Of Government.
What can America do with this immigrant
population? l would not exclude it. But
stand appalled, before it, when l consider
how full Of portent its voting power is in the
! hands of demagogues, and its moral power is
upon the social and religious institutions Of
my country.
+. America is confronted with a contest
between Capital and LabOr-whether it
will be bloOdless or no remains to be
seen. America had made haste to be rich.
1t has invited capital from all quarters; it
/ has given to capitalists enormous franchises
and enormous privileges, and conferred
upon them enormous powers. As result
great corporations and monopolies have
come unto being. They dictate the prices
which must be paid for many of the actual
| necessities of life they drive competitors to
| the wall with absolute certainty, and re-
| merselessIy tax the many for the benefit of
| the few. How shall America control her
| great corpora tons and mOnOpolies? Social
| ism and Communism and the Internationals
| grimIy answer BY the bullet or bayenet, if
the ballot fails By forcibly seizing this
vast wealth and distributing it equally -
Labor everywhere is growing restless and
disconnected, and is organizing against cap
itaI In this America is not singular. But
in America the political power, through our
universal suffrage, is in the hands of labor.
We have no centralized form of government.
The voter is the government. McCaulay' 3
assertion may well give US pause. America
can never govern a Disconnected majority.
And there is too much real cause for this
| discomfort and unrest on the part Of labor.
The future of America is full Of portent for
capitaI-and also for the State, for Socialism
regards all the present forms of government
as tyranny. How shall America hold these
| conspira tors-everyone of whom is voter
in check, and perpetuate and preserve her
free institutions, and individual liberty?
s. I must rapidly group two or three
more vital questions The family is of more
! Importance than the State. How can the
purity and integrity of the American family
| be maintained? Mormonism is only one
form of sensuaHty-he keeps more than one
wife at the same time. The New England
! Mormon abandons one wife when he waaries
of her, and takes another When divorces
are granted, as in Connecticut, i'll the ratio OF
one to every eight marriages, the com
munity is poisoned at its fountain head,
marriage loses its sanctity, the family its
stability, and home its sacredness. And
this is an American disease--it is not i'm
ported.
What power is able to crush out the
liquor traffic in America? That its saloons
are the creators Of tragedies Of unt told hor-
rors, We have all long known. But is not
content with this 1t is laying its hand on
cities, States and the nation. The saloon
has become a great political power; the
center of political influence in America is
changing from the school-house to the gro8-
shops The saloon is already the master OF
most of our great cities, and the great cities
govern the States.
! What power shall combat the systematic
attempt made in so many quarters to dis
credit the Bible; the war made upon the
Christian Sabbath, the wiping out Of long
cherished moral distinctions, and the ssub-
stitution for vital religion of pale, mega
tive morality founded on expediency?
These are not pleasant, nor popular things
to say, but they need to be said. These are
questions easier asked than answered, but
they are questions which Americans every
where should repeatedly ask, and give dill
gent quest for the right answer.
And now, in the second place, wherein lies
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safeguard of American institutions?
/. Chris tianity is the only source and
safeguard of lasting patriotism. 1t was on
this that our America was buildsd. 4 few
hundred years ago a few men and women
seeking freedom to worship God, went out
from Old England to Holland, but they
could not stay therefor God had other work
for those men and women of iron. They
dubbed their small means together, and
hired q little ship, the MayAower. They
hung out upon their little ship, as was the
custom in that port, q rude board on which
was written her destination, "GOd willing,
| to America And God was willing. When
they were ready to set sail their minister
went down with them, and all knelt in
solemn prayer. And when they came al
| last to Plymouth Bay, they anchored and
spent the Sabbath day on an island in
, solemn worship. And when at last they