The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-07-12

love.
"lhis day is the anniversary Of the
birth of Il nation that within the one
hundred and eighteen years of its ex-
istence-a single short century-has
grown into mighty empire whose
influence is felt around the world; a
mother land of whom her SONS are
justly proud; good hearted, large
hearted neighbOr whom all the world
has learned to love and honor.
This Is the anniversary of that day
when BrItain's first-b born received his
birthright of independence, and pro-
claimed his freedom to the world.
And, leaving the beaten paths of gov
ernment, haIlowed by the associations
of centuries, our people started out in
a new and better way that has led to
SUCH an increase of individual enter
prise and of national fortune and
prosperity as the world never dream
ed OF before. 1t was the political ref
ormation of the world; it was the re-
turn to- those fundamental principles
of self government that are the eter-
nal birthright of all men.
"What holiness and resolution,
what steadfastness of purpose, what
cOnsummate confidence in the COM
mon people and faith in the future
dwelt in the hearts of the heroes who
stormed the heights Of Bunker Hill.
Madmen, the proud potentates of Eu-
rope thought them. But the descen-
dants of Euglan1's Puritans and Scot
lands Covenanters and the oppressed
and prosecuted OF all lands who had
found a refuge on the broad shores OF
hospitable America, the handful of
men whose troops starved and prayed
and waited and hoped against hope
through the first long winter in VAL
ley Forge, were the sons of destiny,
and victory perched upon their ban
ners.
"Their creed of politics was short
and plain. The government of the
people, by the people, for the people.
No divine right of king; no privilege
ed class, but over and above all else |
the divine rights of the common peo- |
pie. And we believe that, count its |
faults and its virtues, the government |
of our people is the most steadfast,
rational, and the mightiest, grandest,
strongest government on earth today.
awe have had our dark days, our
days when mems hearts were tried. |
We have had wars abr adj and wars
at home, but through every trial
the genius of our people has carried US
successfully, and from every furnace
of afffiction our people have come out
as gold refined by the burning. We
have risen from every trial of our
like giant refreshed. Our
civil war cost US half a million of
men and the expenditure on both
sides of five thousand millions of |
treasure, but it settled for all time the
question of the stability Of our repub-
lican institutions, and it settled for
ever the question of the sovereignty ,
OF the Republic. No north, no south. .
We are nation, one and undivided. :
From Maine to California, from the :
Great Lakes to the Gulf, the same :
starry banner floats over all, the en-
olem of union, equality and strength. :
The red on the cheek of the morning sun,
The blue of the monday sky, II
And the spotless white of the planets of 8
night,
Are the colors we float on high,
The star-spangled banner, long, long may
Ger the land of the free and the home of
the brave" =
1.-THE object of government is that
men may enjoy the fruits of their Ia
,or, that men may be assured of their
light to provide for those they love,
md may be protected in the enjoy
nent of what they have honestly ear
led by their skill and industry. And 7
Ve believe that the Republic is best
dapted to all the needs and best in I
erests of mankind. Liberty may
ometimes be betrayed by those who
'ould fain rename it license. But
ur people have proved themselves
rue to their sacred trust. Foreign
ystems do not thrive in our atmos-
here. Anarchy, that scourge and
lenace to the peace of Europe, threw A
er bomb but once in America, and -
earned such lesson in ten days as
I'm years has not taught them in con-
mental Europe. We have our social
nj 70 In l,,A
ur people are restless and ambiti-
Us people. And give to me the
fountain torrent tossing its spray i'm
lie sunshine, rather than the dark
nd stagnant pond. Activity means II
Ie; stagnation means death. Our So ~
al agitations are but the froth and
lbbles on the surface of the mighty
rram OF progress that is carrying
lr nation swiftly and surely and
andy on its course of destiny. We
we supreme confidence in the
Notified common sense of our citi-
MS The heart-throb of our nation
an undying love for our republican
situations, and an absolute conf
nee in the wisdom that gives to ev-
man share in the government
d confines the franchise to our own
liens.
when our people had established
cir Government aud consolidated
cir power, they looked around them
their magnificent heritage of un-
led acres. And, leaving the arena
the ocean, they tramped through
wilderness, founding empires.
g occupied the plains of the South.
e settled the valleys of the Great
kes, the Ohio and the Mississippi.
id then our standards plunged
oss the boUndless plains of the
est, and our intrepid sons scaled
escarpments of the everlasting
Is, burst like a deluge through the
8 OF the Rockies, and planted our
ilizstion and our republican insti- KN
ions in the golden plains of Cali. x
MIA. And a continent was ours. ~
Seventy millions of population to- G
;; and room for thrice seventy mil 81
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