Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-05
A ROUsEat
CONTINUED from LIST page.

adherence. Thus the foul scheme of ig-
norance and imbecility, of pushing the Is
lands into the arms of cur foreign rivals and
of sacrificing the Invaluable possession
which had logically and honorabiy drifted
to our hands, sigDally failed.
The splendid opportunity has been saved
to us-saved to the United States, by the
men whom our g5rernment, through dark
and weary weeks, sought to dishonor ard
to destroy. Thanks to God and to the
favoribe etara Of human liberty, in the
place of that grotefqae and monumental
blunder Of monarchical restoration. has
ari.en a well modelled republic-it has come
M ike goddess amid the waves of the
great sea, serene in its beauty in It's promise,
aud in It's noble selfcommand. Nay-not
thus suddenly created. II was many years
growing into life and muscle. More than
seventy yesrs ago, when Asa Thurston and
his associate missionaries arrived from BOs-
ton around Cape Horn, was begun work
on those beautiful isles akin to that which
the colony from the May Flower began at
Plymouth Rock Just two centuries before.
Then and there were planted the first seeds
which have ripened into this little free state
in the Pacific, instinct with all that is best
in American ciyiliz ton and American life.
The man who was the bravest of the brave,
whose soul at the opportune hour was On
fire with Republican Liberty, whose hand
perhaps more than any other was instru-
mental in plating in the executive chair at
Honolulu, that gifted and noble man--San-
ford Ballard Dole--was none other than the
grandson of the first American missionary
Il mean Lorren A. Thurston, the first
Minister of new Hawaii TO Washington.
That little republic was not created by
violence It grew by the gradual operation
of logical causes, as all valuable Anglo
Saxon institutions have always grown. 1t
was born of necessity, in an opportune day,
when there was nothing in the way but the
rotten husks Of a dead monarchy. Like
Switzerland amidst her mountains, this lit
tie American republic occupies command
ing position. 1t holds the key of the North
Pacific, and is now ready to turn it over to
us without money and without price. Yea,
she will give it to the United States with
more than enough of state property to pay
her existing indebtedness, which accrued
under the monarchy with her Pearl ar
Dor pronounced by competent judges one
of the finest ia the world, worth many mil
lions more than Jefferson paid for Louisi
ana. For this great prize the men who have
made Hawaii what she is, only ask that
they may live under the starry flag of this
American republic, of Washington, Lincoln
and Grant. lie who by wori or official act
repels the offer Of this golden key of
Americas westward destiny, shows singular
incapacty, or makes himself guilty of a
treason beside which the crime of Benedict
Arnold dwindled into insignifcance in its
damage to American prestige and to
America future welfare. 1t ia gratifying
to all Americans who are proud Of their
country's honor, to know that the indca-
tons are strongly hopeful that in the near
future the glorious emblem of this nations
power will tloat over that advanced outpost
of American civilization in the great Pacific
world and that thereafter no foreign or
traitorous hand will attempt to pull it down.
Hon. Harold NJ. Sewall of Bath, ex-con-
sui general to Samoa, was then introduced
aud was greeted with applause. lie spoke
as follows:
NJ. Chairman, LaditS and Gentlemen:
We are here in the heat of a political
campaign, but the subject on which | adj
dress you ought never to have become a
subject of political division.
ann here to speak for an American For
eign Policy consistent and continuous which
shall give to our government its proper and
becoming influence amorg the nations of
the world. am hero to speak for the
houor aud glory of the American flag, for
the protection of American citizens and
American interests wherever they are, and
for the extension Of the territory of this
great Republic wherever in this Western
Hemisphere natural RI eht and national des-
t;py bo vn IAGraCI fhaf il shall 20.
At the outset ! recognize that foreign
affA have not been uppermcs: in your
mind of late. The memory of that great
struggle is fresh upon You, struggle in
which Won have been, through your national
representatives, fighting for the very life OF
the industries aud commerce of this State.
Fighting as they have been sssailed all
along the | ne from the farmers OF
Aroostook to the Democratic shipbuilders
of my own city of Bath, whose ship yards
have been threatened with destruction al
the hands Of their party associates.
Recalling this and the recent. domestic
turmoil in fhn West, such rs the country
has never experienced before. | recognize
the fact that TO some Of you t may seem q
far crv to the blunders ant crimes com
mitted by those charged with the admins
tration of our foreign relations in the Pa
ciic.
But my friends, what concerns our ccun
try concerns our State, and in all her his
tory there has been no blow struck at these
common interests which Maine has not riser
to resent, and no obstruction paced in the
way of the advancement of the American
name throughout the world which Maine
has not stiivsn to remove. Let our breth
rem in sister states submit to the humilia
ton as they will, but Maine has no need Of
lessons in patriotism from that admonitol
to public virtue for whose elevation TO the
highest honors of that citizenship he finds s.
unworthy, she has no responsibility Maine
has never sought benefits from nationa
legislation which she has not sought equally
for every other section of the land. nor il
graver moments has she ever dallied to count
the cost, before taking her stand on the side
of the honor of the country's tiig'
And so tonight, remotest though she is OF
all the states III the Union from that vast
ocean, the scene fthe action of which
speak, | would in the face of her BIZ
tory lack respect for your intelligence were
| to seek any special or peculiar interes,