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


celebrate the justice OF our cause, and
would do so still though thousand
reservations We're to follow. / would
write this dayin our statutes and make
it an eternal holiday, and in the future
our children will thank God that there
were men here who held to their
purpose, and who never f1inched.
The 18th is day of suspicious omen.
1t was the birthday of Kamehameha
I'LL, who, at the close of his life,
wearied with an Intellectual struggle,
fought for union with the United
States. 1t is worthy of note that the
influences against us then came from
the slave power, as the only element
which has caused delay now, has
come from the party which upheld
slavery in the United States. Gentle
men, am done. L have made no
preparation for tonight. This sea of
heads, this illumination SURPRISING
every other, are inspiration enough.
There is one man in this city tonight
whom envy. 1t is the anniversary
of his wedding day, and when in the
future his children gather around his
knee, he will add to the patriotic
memories of this holiday, those which
cluster around the hearthside, and
will bless doubly the 18th of January,
1898.
GEN. HARTwELL said:
The development of National
liberty regulated by law is not the
result of accident or chance. 1t is
peculiar to no country nor CLINE;
wherever there is a community in
which intelligent honest and indie
pendent habits of thought and of
action prevail, civil liberty is sure to
come and abide. The day of the d.
vine right of Kings and Queens has
disappeared from modern civilization.
But the supremacy of law is every
where bound to assert itself, for it has
a divine origin, in the Great Law
Oliver of the universe. On the 18th
day of January, 1893, the Government
of the Hawaiian Islands was that of a
Constitutional Monarchy, under the
Constitution which was established in
July 1887. The head of the Govern
ment, the Queen, was not amenable
to any law, except to the unwritten
law which required her to govern
herself in accordance with the re-
quirements of the Constitution under
which she became sovereign, which
she had sworn to observe, and under
which alone she could legally remain
sovereign. If any official of the
tive, Legislative or Judicial Depart
ments, violated the law, he could be
called to account, and the community
had a remedy, more or less effective
for such violation of its rights. What
was the remedy if the head of the
Government declined to be bound by
the Constitution? When King John
refused to govern himself by English
laws, the barons of England at the
point of the sword compelled him to
sign and swear to the Magma Charta
of Runnymede in the year 1915. The
Right of Petition and the Right of
in the glorious revolution of 1888,
when William and Mary came over.
All this is known to every school boy,
as part of the history of civil liberty
in the Great Republic of England.
But how was it in Hawaii last Jan
uary? The Hawaiian Runnymede
had been passed in July of 1887, and
yet the Hawaiian sovereign declined
to keep her obligations. The result
was that the system known as the
Hawaiian Constitutional Monarchy
no longer existed. 1t was like the re-
moval of the keystone Of an arch, the
structure fell. 1t was then that citi-
zens of Honolulu established Provi-
actual or impending anarchy. That
was q conservative and not u revolu
tionary proceeding. The avowed and
the legitimate objects of that Govern
ment were to maintain the public
peace and to promote political union
with the United States of America.
The latter object awaits the result OF
time and full consideration, and may
depend upon events and contingencies
yet to occur; but the preservation of
law and order which thus far has been
secured, is q simple necessity. For
the continued accomplishment of that
object, there Will be ample scope for
the wisdom and patriotism and mod
Grafton and charity of this community
to display themselves. With the
founders and supporters of the exist
ing Government of Hawaii there is
no place for selfish interest or personal
The strong common
sense of the people is thoroughly en-
listed in the cause of honest stable
government. 1t will have nothing
short of that, and it will have no
other, for the end in view is, that
this shall be a government of laws
and not of men,
PRESIDENT HOSMER: Mr.. Chair
man, ladies and gentlemen, and fellow
banquet given to Prince
Bismarck a few years before his re-
tirement, he offered a toast to the
three great branches of the Anglo
Saxon race, to the German Father
land, to Great Britain and to the
Young Republic of the West. While
these three nations have taken the
largest strides, and the Latin race has
been less fortunate, it has an example
Of popular government in France, and
the spirit of liberty still lives in
Portugal. This community, with it's
mixed population, has seen fit to
resist absolutism, and to create
purer form of government. For the |
asst twenty years there has not been a
stable government here, government |
hat commanded the respect of the |