The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-10-23


the high compliment paid our fel-
low-townsman, Rev. Edward P.
Baker, when he was invited as one
of the twenty-five hundred eminent
men selected from all religious
sects and denominations the world
over to take part in the Congress
of Religions" at Chicago, and were
pleased that circumstances permit
ted him to attend. We are also
proud of the fact that he has had
the honor of delivering an address
before that august assembly, and
that he put in a good word for Ha-
wall. Friends here received by
the last mail, copies of the Chicago
Tribune and Herald of the 23d of
September, giving his address. Ac-
cording to the Herald report, after
giving a brief account Of the relig-
ious aspect here and describing the
different sects and denominations
represented, he says:
"Hawaiians here recently asked TO
be taken under the wing Of the 4 mer-
lean eagle, but the United States $50 /
have Just seen in the papers does not
want Hawaii. Very we'll! If Uncle
Sam doesn't want her, John Bull does,
and Hawaii will then be something
when at length shall be established
that finest of all routes for the nayi-
CATION of the globe, the chief points
of which are Liverpool, Halifax, the
Canadian Pacific, Vancouver, the Ha-
waiian islands, Australia, India, the
Suez canal and Gibralter. The At
lantic ocean is the present Mediterrra-
mean of the world: but the future
Mediterranean of the world will be
the Pacific ocean. The possessor of
the Hawaiian islands will hereafter
dominate the Pacific ocean. Has Un-
Gle Sam made up his mind that the
North Pacific is to be a closed British
sea? But Mr.. Phelps seal fishery ar
gument at Paris doesn't look in this
way. Uncle Sam should not be too
afraid of wetting his feet. Abraham
Lincoln used to speak of Urcle Sans
web feet.
makes OF Columbia for Just barely
helping us to secure civilized govern
ment. Hawaii is too small to take
care of herself. / submit, ladies and
that 5000 is not popula-
ton enough to constitute a sovereign,
independent nation, levying war and
concluding peace. 1t is all very well
to say that Hawaii must be autono-
NOUS and free; but so saying is as if
the good Samaritan had said to the
wounded man at the roadside: / will
not help you myself, nor let anybody
else. L am going to stand guard over
you to see that you are kept in con-
dition in which you are perfectly free
to do as you please
"That land where the hurricanes
even are as gentle Zephyrs; that land
of fire, and which contains the two
greatest volcanoes on the face of the
earth 1--WE Hawaiians are the true fire
worshippers); that land which God
has not yet finished creating land new
land was actually formed as late as
1851; that land of the breadfruit,
magnolia and palm; this land / say,
though small, sends its greeting to
the whole world in parliament as
sembled, and expresses the hope that
with all of the civilized world DR..
John Henry Barrows will organize a
second great parliament of religions
to meet in the city of Paris in the year
1900 in the twentieth century worlds
(applause)."
DR.. Baker is an able supporter of
any cause he espouses, and should
be accorded a prominent place
among the champions of the cause
of aDOexation abroad
He certainly made brave and
an eloquent attempt to turn his
great opportunity of a hearing be-
fore the people of the United States
TO the advantage of his adopted
country.
Mrs. L. Severance gave an after
noon tea to the married ladies of
Hilo on Thursday, the 10Th inst,
which the "fair ones" report was
1 social event to be remembered.
Each guest was requested to wear q
distinguishing head dress of her
own choice representing some sect,
or historical parsonage of |
any century, and to bring a quota
ion appropriate to the character or
age chosen.
This novel arrangement gave
.est to the affair, and the ladies
we're busy for days consulting an
,ient books and magazines and re-
their Chautauqua lore for
IDEAS.
The hostess appeared as Lady
oompadour," and Lady Washing
on, gypsy, Psyche, the modern
,irl, and other characters too nu-
nerous to mention were repre-
ented by the guests. An ancient
callash," resurrected from a mis-
ionary trunk, occasioned great
with the quotation
A thing of beauty is a joy for
ver." That is, SO the ladies cay:
Mankind was not present.
Our custom house officials have
ad to wear their high hats for
everal days past owing to the I'M
sually erect state of their hair,
Ike Jim Fenton, "they were scarf"
he port surveyor discovered that
box brought here by the Har-
ester had not been properly listed