The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-07-05
The Bonnie Dundee Wins the
Yacht Race-The Sports on
the Flagship - Reception
at the u. s. Legation
The Grand Ball in
II the Evening.

Speakers of the Day, His Excel
lency the American Minister and
Chaplain Hoes Of the San Fran
cisco, Captain Watson and other
officers Of the flagship, Rev. DR..
Beckwith, members of the execu-
tive committee and a choir of
singers. The following is the
order of exercises
Overture-"Pique Dame" -. ...Suppe
Band of the U. s. Flagship San
Francisco.
Invocation. ...... Rev. e. G.. Beckwith
National Song. Instrumental and
solo by Lieut.. L. M. Carrot
and Chorus.
Reading of the Declaration of INDIE
pendence-...By W.K. van Reypen,
Medical Inspector, u. S. N.
Song-"Columbia the Gem of the
Ocean, ........ Mrs. r. d. Wal
bridge and Chorus.
Addresses-By r. r. Hoes, Chaplain
u. S. N, and His Excellency
John l.. Stevens.
Duet, for Flute and Clarionet--''Min-
nehaha''..... Band of the San
Francisco.
Closing with "America."
Mr.. Atherton the chairman of
the executive committee made a
short but impressive address, and
introduced the speakers.
After the song columbia the
Gem of the Ocean," which was
beautifully rendered by Mrs. Wal
bridge, Chaplain Hoes delivered
the following address
Nh. PRESIDENT, Your ExcELLENcY THE
AMERICAN MINISTER, CAPT. WATSON,
Gov. CLEaHoRN, FELLOW CITIZENS
OF THE UNITED STATES, AND FRIENDS
OF HAWAII:
1t is difficult to do otherwise, on such
an occasion as this, than to give express
sion to the same thoughts that naturally
return on each Independence Day to
every patriotic American citizen. But
the repetition will not harm u.s.. 1t is
we'll to say the same thing over again q
thousand times, provided it be the truth /,
and carry with it lesson beneficial alike
to theaged and the young. The lessons de-
rived from nations history, however
old or however young, are too important
to be overlooked or to be passed hur-
riedly by, especially when cold utilita-
rian considerations occupy such con-
spicuous place in the formation of con-
temporary thought and action. 1t Ia
therefore we'll for the American to close
his shop and lock up his counting-room
at least once year, and allow his mind
TO dwell for time upon the richness o.
the heritage he possesses in the honor
and stability of American citizenship
The more we do this, the more firmly
will the conviction be forced upon us
that true patriotism, instead of being
Simply beautiful sentiment, is a vita
principle based upon the most worthy
instincts of our nature-a principle
moreover, that is nurtured not only BY
prophetic visions of the future, but alsC
by vivid recollections of glorious past
In the turmoil of life and struggle fo
existence we Americans are too prone tt
forget that the security of life and prop
erty and the liberty to think and speal
and act which belong to us, ARE the price
less boons that our fathers bequeatheC
as when they laid broad and deep tn,
foundation of our Western Republic
Viewed in this light, American patriot
ism becomes not only fixed conscious
ness of loyalty, but an expression OF oh
legation ard of gratitude. He therefore
who fails to appreciate, or carelessly for
gets, the price paid in treasure and il
blood by those who built and handet
down to us our political fabric, is want
ing in one OF the essential elements c
true patriotism. This is an age OF cas-
and of luxury; men make fortunes in
year and spend them the next; the mag
ical developments of science bring with
in reach OF all luxuries and conven
fences that century ago were IN
dreamed OF; we live almost withou
effort, and the poor OF our day are il
many respects rich. But it was not so il
the formative years OF our country's his
tory. The struggle for existence durin
those rugged times was far more of
hand-to.hand contest with stubborn
obstacles than it is with us, and tn
hardship OF the task not only strength
ened mems muscles, but also quickene
their powers of thinking. Our grandsire
realized that the building of homes an
telling of trees and the opening of road
formed only portion of their allotte
task. Those houses might rot, othe
forests might take the place of thos
which their axes had felled, and thos
roads might become encountered wit
rocks and choked with weeds, but i
spite OF all this and other elementsof rms
terial adversely those sturdy yeomen kne'
that better than all, it was their higheE
duty and privilege to devise and provid
both the form and the substance of gov
eminent such as would insure TO their POI
terity the enjoyment Of all that coul
make life worth living. We may safel
assert, then that there were giants in thos
days. 1t is true that the great bulk c
our American colonists left the OIL
World influenced primarily by desir
10 improve their material prospects, bu
it is equally true that most of them lane
ed upon our shores with feelings of tn
most intense disgust towards form
Of government that denied thel
the blessings of individual libert
and prosperity. This feeling
disgust, moreover, never left then
1t goaded them to fury for ovt
a century. 1t moulded the sentiment