The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-07-05

ocean; and in so doing it Will not be
lOngbefore these Hawaiian islands Will
become as important TO the Phnnicia
of the new continent, as the Egeau
islands were to the PhRnician navi-
gators OF old. And in our sire to
preserve peace and protect our COM
merce we are spending millions of
| money on the fortitications of our
| coast, for the completion of which we
| may expect in the near future to see
the United States ornamenting her
skirts with Cuba and the Danish ISL
ands of the West Indies. and with the
| Hawaiian bouquet in her left hand
she will with her right pay her salu-
/ tatiOn to the north. The recent eXpe-
| riences in regard to the Isthmian
canal are significant as to the intent of
| the United States in regard to nom
! interference on the American conti-
nent by European powers; and the
/ time will come when the western
| hemisphere will unite in cOnfedera-
! ton of republics under the lead of the
| United States, governed by Pan
! American Congress that viii insert in
! its preamble that America shall be
! for Americans and that the liberties of
! the people shall not be abridged by
either foreign interference or colonial
! aggression. The naval review in New
| York has opened the eyes of the mari
! time powers TO the rapid development
we are making toward retaining
! the commerce of the adjacent
! seas and the exhibit at the greatest of
expeditions, the Worlds Columbian
Fair at Chicago, has astOunded the
world at the immense internal re-
sources of a nation that only rose
! above the horizon little more than a
| century ago.
In conclusion we can, without per-
hitting our national pride to degen-
crate into national egotism, boast of a
nation bought with sacrifice, nurtured
in heroism and redeemed in blood.
! Our principles of government and lib
eral institutions came to us from hon
ored sires; and from the fact that it
has only been a little more than a
| hundred years since they issued their
manifesto to the world, we are not
bound in servile thoughts of distant
past, but free to dwell upon the bless
ings of the present and the
! promises of glorious future.
| They taught to their children that
| the only title to superiority is in the
| favor of God, and the only heritage is
a worthy name and good example.
| If we but follow their example the
future will be guarded by the highest
conception of liberal government
for the people, and by the people; and
it is our patriotic duty to meet on
every 4th of July and by public mani
| festations of joy show that we are
blessed from the cold boundaries of
the north to the warm shores of the
gulf, and from the turbulent Atlantic
to the placid waters of the Pacific, with
a united people free, and Independent,
| cOntented and prosperous, for all ages
to come.
When the storm of applause which
greeted Lieutenant Young's address
had subsidized, Professor Scott called on
Mr.. p. G.. Jones-not on the pro-
gramme-who, with his characteristic
vim kept the audience in roar of
laughter for half an hour with the
following:
Mr.. P 1s Is e ,,S., Fellow GouNTg :.
lrnarEN--I have several times been asked
to take part in the celebration of our
"natal day" not so much for my
oratorical abilities, but for the purpose
of filling up"
The literary committee always
stipulates five minutes as the allotted
time; am only surprised that they
can stand it even for that short period.
| We Americans have our local likes.
A man from Virginia is sure to love
his hoecake and molasses a Georgian
loves his hog and herring; a Yer
monter yearns for his mush and milk !;
a Conn. man wants nutmeg in his ;
while a Massachusetts man dotes on
his pork and beans.
! The advice of the old Roman
"manui puerum ne fabis vescenetur"
! given 10 the youth in the first century
would not be needed by the boy from
| Massachusetts to-day. While we have
our local attachments, as Americans
we have many things in common.
We all have our native land, we love
the cold flag :" we love our institu-
tions and we Iovesour holidays. For
one hundred and seventeen years our
people have met together on the
| Fourth of July, to talk of indepen-
dence, freedom and liberty, and if
they come together for the next eleven
hundred and seventy years they cannot
exhaust the subject. Those of us who
are voluntary eXiles from the land we
love so we'll delight to assemble our
selves together on this anniversary
and do all we can to eXhilarate the
flight of the bird of freedom. believe
[ have filled almost every position on
the Fourth of July programme, from
| waiter on our distinguished guests
at dinner to the reader of the Declare
ton of Independence, but / have
never been invited to deliver the
Grafton. I have sometimes thought
if this distinguished honor was ever
rendered to me, 1 could work in an
Grafton delivered by an uncle of mine
in the year 1901 at Bunker Hill, and
people, who didn't know me might
think it was original, and L might gel
great credit, as men often do, fol
stealing another mans thunder
Having made this confession, it would
now be entirely out of place for me tC
j accept the compliment if offered me
but am exceedingly anxious to make
q few extracts from this Grafton, Civ
ing my uncle the credit which properly
belongs to him; so, with very brie
sketch of him, will make few quo
tations which / feel sure you will APP
preciate, and you will pardon me if
overrun the allotted time by abOu
three minutes. Mr.. VIM. Austin, my
uncle, was the father of James w
Austin, formerly justice of the su
preme court at these islands, under
King Kamehameha V, and the
grandfather of William Austin Viii
ting, justice of our circuit count. Mr.
Austin died in 1871, when [ was bu
four years old, but 1 have Otter
heard my father speak of him. Anon.
other stories told of him the following
is q good one: When he was q young