Hawaii holomua = Progress. [volume] (Honolulu) 1893-1895, 1894-04-20

then act out the paris no maIter
how bad the play; when you are
through let there be no wailings
over disappointed ambition, no
regrets for the past aud no COM
plants or criticisms against those
who have acted with you. But
remember always, brother Amer
leans, whatever be the advent,
the Americans who act with
Hawaiians in overthrowing the
one government and in founding
the new, while proclairning him
self a citizen Of the United States,
will find himself at once an object
of hatred for the past. being
living monument of national
independence, ANONYMOUSLY sur
rendered. and an object of ieal-
ously for the future, as one who
has already advertise himself as
fitting tool for the ultimate
transfer Of all national supremacy.
Nor is this all, you viii find
that when the folly of your
course is summed up, your
friends at home will set you down
as a prototype of the Southern
carpet-bagger. a man, as the
Northern paper give it, without
means, character, or occupation
an adventurer, camp follower,
a hummer and who was in the
South described as "a man Of
Northern birth. an incarnation of
Northern hate. envy, spleen.
greed, hypocrisy, and all I'M
cleanness," being an individual
upon whom was poured out the
wrath and contempt of the
conquered people as well as
the discredit and contumely of
the conquering power. Either
be fish, flesh or fowl. Do not
endeavor to be that monstrosity
which has a little of everything,
and the certainty of nothing.
Americ ans, if you intend to
vote, cast an honest ballot and
thereby change your citizenship.
If you intend to remain Amer
! leans be assured and conseled by
the words of Hon. Richard
Guenther of Wisconsin, himself a
German and naturalized Amer
lean citizen; 1--WE know as well
as any other class of American
citizens where on duties belong.
We will work for country in the
time of peace and fight for it in
time of war, if time of war should
ever come; when say our coun-
try, l mean of course our adopt,
ed country, | mean the United
States of America. After pass
ing through the cruclble oil
naturalization; we are no longer
Germans, we are Americans. Our
attachment to A merica cannot be
measured by the length of our
residence here; we are Americans
from the moment we touch the
American shore, until we are
laid In American graves. We
will fight for America whenever
necessary, America first, last. and
all the time, America against
Germany, America against the
world; America right or wrong;
always Americans. We are
Americans and do not vote.
Amer leans cannot owe, nor
can they pay, a divided allegi-
ance. Americans are needed at
home where each will find his
task aud its dangers; there they
can stand side by side, shoulder
to shoulder, not with the palsied
fear that their acts may com
promise them, but working to.
gether, heart. hand and head for
the honor and greatness of our
common country. The writer is
an American who is forever
paraphrasing two of Goldsmith s
finest couplets:
''where'er roam, whatever realms to see,
Ny heart untrammsled fondly turns to thee;
Still to my country turns, with ceaseless
pain.
And drags st each remove heightened
chain"
JULIAN ID. HAYNE.