The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1893-03-28

held in this city. There were fifteen
men at that one. He was glad to meet
tonight under call to all the people.
He endorsed every word of that call.
To-morrow's steamer would bring no
bad news, for revolutions never go
backward" (Applause). He would
say that the Commission had been re-
ceived with unexpected enthusiasm by
the people, the press and in Washing,
ton. (Applause). They had been told
they would have to wait two weeks
for an audience with the Secretary OF
State. They got one the first morning.
(Applause). The treaty would have
been almost unanimously ratified if
the Harrison administration had
lasted thirty days longer. He feared
no adverse results from the Cleveland
administration. There was no reason
to fear any antagonism from him.
He believed to-morrow's steamer
would bring news of the ratification of
that treaty. Cheers. He was glad
the meeting had been called. 1t
showed the reporters present where
the foreign sentiment of this commun-
ity stood. loud applause). He
totally dissented from the view that
Government employees should take
no part in this organization. On the
contrary, every Government employee
should take part or withdraw from the
Government service. (Long continued
cheering.
Mr.. w. B. Oleson said: We are
here tonight, not as Hawaiians, nor
as Americans, nor as representatives
of any other nationality, but as the
representatives of the dominant forces
in modern civilization. We should
be false to the spirit and meaning of
the great forces which have given
birth to our civilization, were we to
fail to assert, at this critical juncture
in this nations affairs, our deter
mined purpose that those forces shall
abide and continue their sway in this
land. As representatives of the civil
cation that has everywhere borne in
its wake, enterprise, and thrift. and
liberty, and moral uplifting, we know
our rights, and we dare maintain
them; we recognize our responsible
ties, and we mean to be true to them;
we know what we want, and what
this land must have, to secure for it
the blessings of civilized society, and
the privileges of political liberty, and
we propose to stand together, shoulder
to shoulder, until we secure them.
Any other Interpretation of this move
ment into which the logic of events
has forced the citizens of Honolulu,
is false to the spirit and purpose of
the men whose ancestry fought the
battles of civil and religious liberty
and whose heritage is the right to
live anywhere on Gods earth, secure
and unmolested, in the enjoyment of
the privileges of civilized society. We
do not take away the rights of others
when we get our own; but we do Sc
cure for others rights they never could
gain for themselves. The political
advancement of the Hawaiian people
has been due not to their own efforts
after civil rights, but to the persistent
insistence of Anglo SaXons to the
guarantees of civil freedom. The
foreign element in this land, when it
sought these shores, was welcomed
and encouraged to remain. 1t was
costly and extensive enterprises that
it began to experience the burden of
pernicious legislation, and, under the
lead of foreign adventures, of corrupt
administration, and finally, out of
sheer necessity, it was compelled to
secure for itself through the ballot
box the same rights that, under more
rulers, had been freely
accorded. But when it secured those
rights for itself, it likewise secured for
all the people in the land distinct
advance in constitutional privileges.
1t is one of the unfortunate in 'idents
of this advance, however, thlt the
native Hawaiians have, to such a
large degree, failed to recognize the
obligation they are under to the
foreign population for the political
of the last fifteen years. Led
by men, recteanG to the spirit of
modern institutions, Hawaiians have
lisregarded their obligation to join
heartily in the movement for pro-
gressive constitutional development,
and have cast their influence in favor
of retroactive and vicious Legislation.
We would be glad to have them go
along with us, for we are going along.
The forces of civilized society and of
political freedom are not going to be
snutfed out i'll this land by any one's
whim, or by clustering menace. The
whole civilized world is vitality con
cerned in the perpetuatiOn of the civil
lizing forces at work in this land to
day. The commerce of the world
demands that this land be controlled
the interests of industTial and social
The United States
as the nation most intimately concern
ed, has duty TO itself and no less a
duty to the world at large to sustain aud
to reinforce the civilization of this
land. The civilized nations expect
this of the United States. She will not
be worthy Of her Declaration of Inde-
pendence, or of her Proclamation of
or of her long and
ample record of treaties and adjust
ments in the interest of civilization
the world around, if she does not ac-
cept her obligation to provide for this
country ample guarantees that the
forces here shall prevail.
believe that she will. / look for
ward confidently to the annexation of
5hese islands to the United States.
rhe naval argument, that the United
States needs to possess these islands
because of their commanding strate-
yic importance, may lot avail to
secure annexation. The commercial