The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-01-18

! Ot JI1c pSOplS HdS USSUH MY
| it builds up q mans political consti-
| tuition to be citizen of Hawaii in
/ such au era as is now in the vigor
and brightness of its prime. 1t is a
| privilege, so far as the principle is
concerned, equal TO that enjoyed by
/ the fortunate men, some of them
your ancestors and mine, who did
duty at Faneuil Hall or behind the
earthworks of Bunker Hill. / do not
withdraw the comparison because
! Hawaii, in contrast with colonial
| America, is so small or because the
forces with which you grappled, be-
side those which stood for England,
were so weak and impotent; for it
must ever be remembered that your
defiance to the lettering Hawaiian
| monarchy lost no tone of sternness or
| of courage when you stood at bay
! to the President of the United
| States and the power which he mis-
used. There is nothing more inSpir-
| ing in the annals of 1776 than the I'M
wavering front which you preserved
in your great emergency. There, on
the one side, was the chief of sixty
millions; here was an armed body of
| a paltry thousand; there was the
strongest of modern powers, with it's
army and its fleets; here were few
lone rocks in the ocean without fort
upon its pinnacles and without q gun
upon a deck; there was a great Gov
eminent whose President had declared
that our detnroned Queen should reign
again; here was little band of men
who said that she must pass over their
dead bodies first; there in our harbor
were the broadsides of possible foe;
here on shore was battalion behind
its sandbags! The odds were great
but the patriots of Hawaii took them;
and if the American people, aroused
by that spectacle, had not placed
themselves between us and all harm,
[ feel that here upon this soil would
have been new Thermopylae, not less
consecrated to human courage than
was that which made immortal the
memory of three hundred Greeks. 1t
is not enough, fellow citizens, to look
backward with pride, for we must look
forward with courage. You destroyed
a monarchy one year ago today
what are we to have in place
of it u year from today or ten years
hence? The problem of January 18th
was easy to solve beside the problems
that may be in store; problems which
will tax the calmest craftsmanship of
the great man who is our President to-
day; which will also tax the wisdom
and experience of his Cabinet, the sa-
We have party at home devoted to
the lost cause and mOneyed inf1u-
ence abroad conspiring for control.
We are in the midst of alien races
and more alien creedS. There is q
clamor of many tongues within our
gates; the pressure of foreign Govern
ments at the outer walls. Our enc
mics are powerful and insidious, and
though some work secretly and others |
openly, all are united to defeat the !
objects of the January revolution. 1t |
is for us to remain steadfast to those |
objects, no matter who or what may /
prove false to them; no matter who or !;
what may conspire or oppose; no mat !
ter what self-interest may undermine; !.
no matter who may come with the i
olive branch in one hand and a dag |
ger in another. This is our highest |
public duty. There is but one political
goal and watchword for us all and
that is annexation. 1t is the begin
ming and the end of our political
alphabet. 1t is the best hope of the
Americans in Hawaii, and of
thousands who are not Americans,
except in principle, and it is
the best that could happen to the
natives. Whatever comes and what
ever proposals of government may be
made, we must be true to the objects
of the revolution or we shall be undone
by the forces now at work against us.
But what, it may be asked, if anneXa-
ton is long delayed-if the wait be-
comes one of years? What if we are left
to work out our own salvation first?
Fellow citizens, in that event, the
best thing we can do is to work it out
on the American plan and by the
of Anglo-Saxon pluck, and
leave the rest to the ruler of all ma
4 g.. l. 4l,a%
dence may have great political
work for this little island community
to perform before our common hopes
may be secured and realized. 1t
is in such small confines that God has
set the mightiest forces of the worlds
affairs in motion. Events upon a
narrow strip of sea shore, among the
fishers and the poor, have swayed the
world for nineteen centuries. Some
of the brightest chapters of civiliza-
ton and the strongest ones of philOso-
opened among the isles of Greece
Upon the narrow lodges of Switzer-
land few plain people and few
plain rules did more for mankind in
one unhappy day than all the empires.
Among the sea-girt hills of Corsica
was born the genius of Napoleon. In
Hayti all men were once taught the
might of free people. Nor is this
all! From those little islands in the
seas where the British flag
first redeemed the dull air, the strong
est tides of civilization have flowed
for thousand years in a continuous
stream. You might take those Islands
and put them in the midst of one of
the many great American lakes and
they could not be seen from the shore;
but their very name to the Zulu of
the Cape, to the bushman of Austria
ia, to the redman in the forests of
to the high and the low all
over the earth is the incarnation of
one of the worlds affairs. Surely
he opportunity to do great things
md useful things is not dependent !
mon the size of the theatre IT NAV