The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-12-21

clean bodies and clean houses,
healthy homes; and bad men, row.
dies and demagogues, whether born
in Hawaii, America, Europe or Asia,
of whatever complexion, belong to-
gether, have common sympathy
and interest, and love to make their
resorts where rum, gin, and the devil
hold high carnival, and mischievous
faction does its worst work. In clos
ing, let me ask you always to take for
your models, the Industrious, the
temperate, the well-behaved, who
ever they may be, or wherever born.
Looking on you my young brothers,
L am glad to express to you the kind
est wishes. Having myself devoted
more than fifty years of my life to
persistent industry, much of my time
IN those years laboring from twelve
to fifteen hours per day, the brightest
dollar [ ever saw being the one l
earned with the sickle, in the neigh
boris grain field, when boy of fif-
teen, after my fathers barns had
been well filled. [ think it my right
and my duty to commend to you,
now in the early morning of life
WORK, WORK, WORK, as a divine
agency, by which you can secure the
most valuable acquisitions this earth
can afford yOu-those alone which
render manhood worth having.
My boys, in your books and from
your teachers, you learn of the pyra-
mids in far off Egypt, reared thous-
ands of years ago-they were the
work of labor of human hands. You
hear of imperial Rome and of its
wonderful temples of art and grand
eur, and Of the might of it's walls and
towers. 1t was all the product of
labor. In that splendid field of mod
ern nations extending between the
Mediterranean and the Baltic seas,
and from the western borders of Asia
to the Atlantic, with it's wonderful
clties, its palaces, factories, it's gall
ierles of art and its myriad of cottage
homes, are seen the magic powers of
labor. And in that great new coun-
try OF America, stretching from ocean
10 ocean, with its cities and towns,
It's vast network of railroad, linking
together i'll near neighborhood the
mountains, the plains, the rivers,
and the lakes, with the remarkable
forces OF steel, fire, steam and cleo
trlclty, its churches and temples of
learning, piercing the skies, it's ships,
factories and WOrkshops-that coun-
try so near you and of which you
near so much, has spread it's achieve
ments over so immense q realm, and
indicates so plainly the remarkable
destiny which the future has for the
hundreds Of millions who are there to
have their homes-Iabor is the
mighty agent which has wrought
ana is to accomplish all this, And
when you shall have completed YOUR
time at this school, and manhood
with its hopes lies directly before
you, a diploma, certifying that you
have learned to labor and that Won
love to labor, will be an ornament
which you may look on with more |
pride and pleasure than the brightest |
slgnet OF gold, or the most brilliant |
diamond that ever sparkled on the
dIadem of king. 1t is this diploma
of honor which ask you to win and
to hold priceless to your heart
through life.
Having these hopes in YOU, wishing
all that is brightest and best in yonT
future, deeply interested in the wei
Tare of your race and in the prosper
lty of your native land, rejoice that
ms building has been dedicated to
Education, to Labor, to Religion, to
to Truth and to Justice.
% all that is beautiful and noble i'm
luman character and in civilized life.
AS long as these walls of stone shall
endure and the serene beauty of the
look down upon them,
nay the name of the donor and the
objects for which they have been
cared, live in Hawaiian memories.